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NEW YORK - MARCH 28: (U.S. TABS AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER OUT) Actor Ossie Davis arrives at the Apollo Theater Foundation 70th Anniversary Benefit Celebration on March 28, 2004 in New York City. (Photo by Scott Eells/Getty Images)

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NEW YORK - MARCH 28: (U.S. TABS AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER OUT) Actor Ossie Davis arrives at the Apollo Theater Foundation 70th Anniversary Benefit Celebration on March 28, 2004 in New York City. (Photo by Scott Eells/Getty Images)

1991: EVENING SHADE cast member Ossie Davis (as Ponder Blue). Image dated 1991. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive via Getty Images)

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1970: Photo of Ossie Davis Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

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A distinguished and highly respected performer, Ossie Davis is an influential and versatile actor, director, producer, screenwriter, playwright, and historian. The son of a railroad engineer, he was born in Cogdell, GA, on December 18, 1917. After earning a degree at Washington, D.C.'s Howard University, he moved to New York to attempt a writing career and to study drama with Harlem's Rose McCl... Read More

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