• Awards and honors[edit]. In 1989, Ossie Davis and his wife, actress/activist Ruby Dee, were named to the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame.
  • Ossie Davis in The Android Affair (1995). ... Sean Connery, Ossie Davis, Ian Hendry, Roy Kinnear, Alfred Lynch, and Jack Watson in The Hill (1965).
  • Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee are legendary stars of the American stage, television, and film, a beloved and revered couple cherished not just for their acting artistry but...
  • It was in such moments that I decided to let the world know that my husband, Ossie Davis, was a genius (he had married me, hadn’t he?).
  • Davis did read the eulogy at the funeral and was asked to read it again in Spike Lee’s film Malcolm X. Ossie was cremated and his remains given to family.
  • Ossie Davis was one of the few early black artists who could avoid being stereotyped. He played significant roles alongside Sean Connery in the Second World War...
  • When Ossie Davis spoke out against injustice, his words carried the weight of experience. Davis, a distinguished stage, screen, and television actor, devoted his life...
  • OSSIE DAVIS. Posted by By AfroTeam. ... The name Ossie came from a county clerk who misheard his mother’s pronunciation of his initials “R.C.” when he was born.
  • Ossie Davis was born in Cogdell, Georgia, on December 18, 1917, the oldest of five children of Kince Charles Davis and Laura Cooper Davis.