Appearances
7.8
Do the Right Thing
Mother Sister
6.4
Jungle Fever
Lucinda Purify
7.6
American Gangster
Mama Lucas
3.5
America
Mrs. Harper
6.0
Cat People
Female
5.0
Love at Large
Corrine Dart
7.0
Jazztime Tale
Narrator (voice)
6.3
Just Cause
Evangeline Ferguson
4.6
Cop & ½
Rachel
6.3
Buck and the Preacher
Ruth
6.5
No. 2
Nanna Maria
6.9
The Tall Target
Rachel
7.2
Edge of the City
Lucy Tyler
7.7
A Raisin in the Sun
Ruth Younger
6.3
The Jackie Robinson Story
Rae Robinson
7.4
The Incident
Joan Robinson
5.5
A Simple Wish
Hortence
5.2
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
5.7
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Nanny
3.3
Politics of Love
4.8
Feast of All Saints
Elsie Claviere
6.8
Black Girl
Netta's mother
6.2
Video Girl
Valerie
6.9
Decoration Day
Rowena
6.8
Uptight
Laurie
7.0
Finding Buck McHenry
Mrs. Henry
6.0
Mr. and Mrs. Loving
Sophia
7.3
It's Good to Be Alive
Ruth Campanella
6.4
A Storm in Summer
Grandmother
10.0
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Self
7.2
Betty and Coretta
Narrator
2.8
Steam
Doris
4.3
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Grandmother Baxter
6.3
Virgin Island
Ruth
5.2
Take a Giant Step
Christine
6.5
Tuesday Morning Ride
Jennie
7.5
Gone Are the Days!
Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins
After Goodbye
Narrator
9.0
Sports on the Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
8.0
That Man of Mine
Joan
9.0
Deadlock
Lucinda
6.0
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Mary Tyrone
7.3
A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
Narrator (voice)
6.0
Passing Glory
Mommit Porter
6.8
The Wall
Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")
7.0
Countdown at Kusini
Leah Matanzima
6.0
Whitewash
Grandmother (voice)
4.0
Taking Back Our Town
Emelda West
7.3
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
Jackie's Mother
A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner
7.0
A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner
Narrator
7.3
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany
Neighbours
Neighbours
Vicky Kingsbury
6.9
No Way Out
Connie Brooks (uncredited)
5.1
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
Indigo
7.3
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Self (archive footage)
Love in Syncopation
8.0
The Fight Never Ends
7.0
What a Guy
Wedding Band
Julia Augustine
5.5
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
Miss Candy
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
6.9
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Self
6.5
In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema
Herself
6.5
All God's Children
Irene Whitfield
6.4
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Mrs. Grimes
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
Self
7.1
The Ernest Green Story
Lydia Wilson
6.1
A Thousand Words
Annie McCall
10.0
Zora is My Name!
Zora Neale Hurston
6.0
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
(archive footage)
7.8
St. Louis Blues
Elizabeth
5.2
The Balcony
Thief
Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
Self
6.9
Color Adjustment
Narrator
5.4
Go Man Go
Irma Jackson
7.0
Discovering William Greaves
Self
4.1
Baby Geniuses
Margo
Poitier's Walter Lee
Self (archive footage)
7.0
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters
6.0
The Sheriff
Sue Ann Lucas
1.5
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Self
On Merit
On Merit
Narrator (voice)
6.5
The Unfinished Journey
Narrator (voice)
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
Self
8.0
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Self
7.0
The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six
4.4
All About Us
Ms. Ella
9.0
Easy to Get
Drugstore Girl
9.0
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
Self
6.7
The Way Back Home
Maude
Chelsea D.H.O.
8.0
Chelsea D.H.O.
Dr. Bianca Pearson
Now is the Time
Now is the Time
Self
6.9
Spenser: For Hire
7.6
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Mary Wilson
10.0
The Great Adventure
Harriet Tubman
7.6
The Golden Girls
Mammy Watkins
7.5
China Beach
6.9
Little Bill
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Rowena Finch
6.8
The Stand
Mother Abagail Freemantle
6.4
Police Woman
7.3
The Fugitive
Laura Smith
7.5
Iconoclasts
Self
7.5
Middle Ages
Estelle Williams
6.3
The Defenders
Catherine Collins
7.4
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
7.5
Lincoln
Elizabeth Keckley
8.3
Reading Rainbow
Self - Narrator (voice)
6.6
American Experience
Narrator (voice)
Christianity: The First 1000 Years
Christianity: The First 1000 Years
Herself - Narrator
5.8
The Atlanta Child Murders
Faye Williams
6.3
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Grandma (voice)
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
6.0
Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years
Narrator
7.2
Touched by an Angel
LaBelle Springbelt
6.0
Great Performances
Self
7.5
Roots: The Next Generations
Queen Haley
7.0
The Oscars
Self
6.0
Armchair Theatre
Vicky Kingsbury
9.0
Hollywood Black
Self (archive footage)
