Editing Ruby Dee (section)

== Acting credits ==
===Filmography===
[[File:The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) still 1.jpg|thumb|270px|{{center|Ruby Dee and [[Joel Fluellen]] (center) in<br>''[[The Jackie Robinson Story]]'' (1950)}}]]
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!style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role
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|1946 || ''[[That Man of Mine]]''<ref name=cnn_obit/> || Joan || First film
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|rowspan=2|1947 || ''Easy to Get''<ref>{{cite web|title=Medical Movies on the Web|url=https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/films/medicalmoviesontheweb/easytogetessay.html|website=Nlm.nih.gov|date=June 6, 2014 |access-date=April 20, 2023}}</ref> ||Drugstore girl ||U.S. Army venereal disease training film
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| ''[[The Fight Never Ends]]''<ref name=deecredits2/> || Jane||
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|1948 || ''What a Guy'' ||<ref name=deecredits2/> || 
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|rowspan=2|1950 || ''[[The Jackie Robinson Story]]'' ||Rae Robinson ||
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| ''[[No Way Out (1950 film)|No Way Out]]''|| Connie Brooks||Uncredited
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|1951 || ''[[The Tall Target]]'' ||Rachel ||
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|1954 || ''[[Go, Man, Go!]]'' ||Irma Jackson ||
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|1957 || ''[[Edge of the City]]''||Lucy Tyler ||
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|rowspan=2|1958 || ''[[St. Louis Blues (1958 film)|St. Louis Blues]]'' || Elizabeth||
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| ''[[Virgin Island (1958 film)|Virgin Island]]'' || Ruth||
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|1959 || ''[[Take a Giant Step]]'' ||Christine ||
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|1961 || ''[[A Raisin in the Sun (1961 film)|A Raisin in the Sun]]'' || Ruth Younger||
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|rowspan=2|1963 || ''[[The Balcony (film)|The Balcony]]'' || Thief||
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| ''[[Gone Are the Days!]]'' || Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins||
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|1967 || ''[[The Incident (1967 film)|The Incident]]''||Joan Robinson ||
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|1968 || ''[[Uptight (film)|Up Tight!]]'' ||Laurie ||
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|1970 || ''[[King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis]]'' || Herself|| Documentary
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|rowspan=2|1972 || ''[[Buck and the Preacher]]'' ||Ruth ||
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| ''[[Black Girl (1972 film)|Black Girl]]'' || Netta's Mother||
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|1973 || ''[[Wattstax]]'' || Herself||
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|1975 || ''Lorraine Hansberry: The Black Experience in the Creation of Drama''<ref>{{cite news|author=Mary Emblen; Alvin Klein |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/29/nyregion/new-jersey-guide.html |title=New Jersey Guide – 'Star Trek' Exhibition |work = The New York Times |date=January 29, 1995 |access-date=June 13, 2014}}</ref> || Herself || Short
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|1976 || ''[[Countdown at Kusini]]''<ref name=nyt_filmography/> ||Leah Matanzima ||
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|1980 || ''The Torture of Mothers''<ref name=deecredits2>{{cite web |url=http://www.ossieandruby.com/dee-credits-2.html |title=Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee: Ruby Dee Film Credits |publisher=Ossieandruby.com |access-date=June 13, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140704204419/http://ossieandruby.com/dee-credits-2.html |archive-date=July 4, 2014 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> || || Short
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|1982 || ''[[Cat People (1982 film)|Cat People]]'' ||Female ||
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|1989 || ''[[Do the Right Thing]]'' || Mother Sister||
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|1990 || ''[[Love at Large]]'' || Corrine Dart||
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|1991 || ''[[Jungle Fever]]'' ||Lucinda Purify ||
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|rowspan=2|1993 || ''[[Color Adjustment]]'' || Narrator ||Documentary
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| ''[[Cop and a Half]]'' ||Rachel ||
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|rowspan=2|1995 || ''[[Just Cause (film)|Just Cause]]'' || Evangeline||
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| ''Tuesday Morning Ride''<ref>{{cite web|last=Scott |first=Jill |url=http://www.essence.com/2014/06/12/ruby-dee-jill-scott-kerry-washington-essence |title=Ruby Dee: Jill Scott, Kerry Washington and More on the Grande Dame |publisher=Essence.com |date=April 10, 2014 |access-date=June 13, 2014}}</ref> || Jennie || Short
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|1997 || ''[[A Simple Wish]]'' ||Hortense ||
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|1998 || ''A Time to Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner''|| Narrator|| Documentary<ref name=nyt_filmography/>
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|rowspan=2|1999 || ''[[Baby Geniuses]]''<ref name=nyt_filmography/> ||Margo ||
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| ''The Unfinished Journey''<ref>{{cite web|last=Feb |first=Posted |url=http://www.backstage.com/news/sag-life-achievement-award-goes-to-ossie-ruby/ |title=SAG Life Achievement Award Goes To Ossie, Ruby |publisher=Backstage |date=February 20, 2001 |access-date=June 13, 2014}}</ref> || Narrator || Short
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|2003 || ''[[Beah Richards|Beah: A Black Woman Speaks]]''||Herself ||Documentary
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|rowspan=2|2006 || ''[[No. 2 (film)|No. 2]]''||Nanna Maria ||
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|''The Way Back Home''||Maude ||
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|rowspan=3|2007 || ''All About Us''<ref name=nyt_filmography/> ||Ms. Ella ||
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| ''[[American Gangster (film)|American Gangster]]''|| Mama Lucas||
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| ''[[Steam (film)|Steam]]'' ||Doris ||
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|rowspan=2|2009 || ''[[The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll]]''<ref name=nyt_filmography/> || Miss Candy||
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| ''The New Neighbors''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lmc-tv.org/node/844 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140615100659/http://www.lmc-tv.org/node/844 |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 15, 2014 |title=The New Metropolis Airing Tuesday Nights on LMC-TV  |publisher=Lmc-tv.org |access-date=June 13, 2014 }}</ref> || Narrator || Short
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|2010 || ''Dream Street'' ||Laura ||<ref>{{cite web |author=Yahoo Movies |url=https://www.yahoo.com/movies/film/dream-street-2 |title=Dream Street |publisher=Yahoo.com |access-date=June 13, 2014 |archive-date=March 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312075923/https://www.yahoo.com/movies/film/dream-street-2/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|rowspan=3|2011 || ''Video Girl''||Valerie ||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/ty_hodges_video_girl_starring_meagan_good_ruby_dee_on_dvd_and_vod_this_week |title="Video Girl" Starring Meagan Good, Ruby Dee On DVD and Blu Ray This Week&#124;Shadow and Act |work=Shadow and Act |publisher=Blogs.indiewire.com |access-date=June 13, 2014 |last1=Martinez |first1=Vanessa }}</ref>
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| ''[[Politics of Love]]''<ref name=nyt_filmography/> || Grandma 'Estelle' Roseanne Gupta||
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| ''Red & Blue Marbles''<ref name=nyt_filmography/> ||Professor June Wright ||
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|rowspan=2|2012|| ''Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey With Mumia Abu-Jamal'' || Herself||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/now-you-too-will-be-able-to-see-long-distance-revolutionary-a-journey-with-mumia-abu-jamal |title=Now You Too Will Be Able To See 'Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal'&#124;Shadow and Act |work=Shadow and Act |publisher=Blogs.indiewire.com |access-date=June 13, 2014 |last1=Obenson |first1=Tambay A. }}</ref>
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| ''[[A Thousand Words (film)|A Thousand Words]]'' ||Annie McCall ||<ref name=nyt_filmography>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/18243/Ruby-Dee/filmography |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716163333/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/18243/Ruby-Dee/filmography |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 16, 2014 |title=Ruby Dee – Filmography – Movies & TV |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2014 |access-date=June 13, 2014}}</ref>
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| 2013 || ''[[1982 (2013 film)|1982]]''|| Rose Brown|| Final role
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===Television===
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| 1960–1961 || ''[[Play of the Week (TV series)|Play of the Week]]'' || Lila / Jane||2 episodes
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| 1961 || ''Frontiers of Faith''<ref name=deecredits3/> || Grace Gilmore||Episode: "The Bitter Cup"
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| 1962 ||  ''Seven Times Monday''<ref name=deecredits3/> || Lila||TV movie
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| 1963 || ''[[Alcoa Premiere]]'' || Irene Clayton||Episode: "Impact of an Execution"
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| 1963 || ''[[The Doctors and the Nurses]]'' || Jenny Bishop||Episode: "Express Stop from Lenox Avenue"
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| 1963 || ''[[The Fugitive (1963 TV series)|The Fugitive]]''<ref name=deecredits3/>
|Laura Smith
|Episode: "Decision in the Ring"
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| 1963 || ''[[The Great Adventure (American TV series)|The Great Adventure]]''<ref name=deecredits3/>
|[[Harriet Tubman]]
|Episode: "Go Down, Moses"
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| 1963 || ''[[East Side West Side (TV series)|East Side West Side]]''
|Marilyn Marsden
|Episode: "No Hiding Place"
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| 1964 || ''Of Courtship and Marriage''<ref name=deecredits3/>
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|TV movie
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| 1965 || ''[[The Defenders (1961 TV series)|The Defenders]]'' || Catherine Collins||Episode: "The Sworn Twelve"
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| 1966 || ''[[Armchair Theatre]]'' || Vicky Kingsbury||Episode: "Neighbours"
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| 1967 || ''[[Guiding Light]]'' || Martha Frazier|| Cast member<ref name=deecredits3/>
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| 1968–1969 || ''[[Peyton Place (TV series)|Peyton Place]]''
|Alma Miles
|25 episodes
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| 1969 || ''[[The Bold Ones: The Protectors]]'' || Lucinda|| Episode: "Deadlock"<ref name=deecredits3>{{cite web |url=http://www.ossieandruby.com/dee-credits-3.html |title=Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee: Dee Television Credits |publisher=Ossieandruby.com |access-date=June 13, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140618183420/http://ossieandruby.com/dee-credits-3.html |archive-date=June 18, 2014 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
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| 1970 || ''[[Sesame Street]]''
|Herself
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| 1971 || ''[[The Sheriff (1971 film)|The Sheriff]]''<ref name=deecredits3/>
|Sue Ann Lucas
|TV movie
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| 1973 || ''[[Tenafly (TV series)|Tenafly]]'' || Jan Lennox||Episode: "The Window That Wasn't"
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| 1974 || ''[[It's Good to Be Alive (film)|It's Good to Be Alive]]''<ref name=deecredits3/>
|Ruth Campanella
|TV movie
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| 1975 || ''[[Police Woman (TV series)|Police Woman]]'' || Cora Sanders|| Episode: "Target Black"
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| 1978 || ''[[Watch Your Mouth (TV series)|Watch Your Mouth]]'' || Mrs. Fullo||Episode: "The Outcast"
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| 1979 || ''[[Roots: The Next Generations]]'' || Queen Haley|| Miniseries<ref name=deecredits3/>
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| 1979 || ''[[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (film)|I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]]''<ref name=deecredits3/>
|Grandmother Baxter
|TV movie
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| 1980 || ''All God's Children''<ref name=deecredits3/>
|Irene Whitfield
|TV movie
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| 1980–1982 || ''With Ossie and Ruby!''<ref name=deecredits3/>
|Herself
|
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| 1982 || ''[[Long Day's Journey into Night#Film adaptations|Long Day's Journey into Night]]''
|Mary Tyrone
|TV movie
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| 1985 || ''[[Go Tell It on the Mountain (film)|Go Tell It on the Mountain]]''
|Mrs. Grimes
|TV movie
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| 1985 || ''[[The Atlanta Child Murders (miniseries)|The Atlanta Child Murders]]'' || Faye Williams|| Miniseries
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| 1987 || ''[[Spenser: For Hire]]'' || Eleanor Simpson||Episode: "Personal Demons"
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| 1987 || ''[[Crown Dick]]'' || Johnson's Mother||TV movie
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| 1988 || ''[[Windmills of the Gods (miniseries)|Windmills of the Gods]]''<ref name=deecredits3/>
|Dorothy
|2 episodes
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| 1988 || ''[[Gore Vidal's Lincoln]]''<ref name=deecredits3/>
|[[Elizabeth Keckley]]
|2 episodes
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| 1990 || ''Zora Is My Name!'' || [[Zora Neale Hurston]]||TV movie
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| 1990 || ''[[American Experience]]'' 
|Narrator
|Episode: "Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad"
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| 1990 || ''[[China Beach]]'' || Ruby
|Episode: "Skylark"
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| 1990 || ''[[The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson]]''<ref name=deecredits3/>
|Jackie's Mother
|TV movie
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| 1990 || ''[[The Golden Girls]]''<ref name=deecredits3/>
|Mammy Watkins
|Episode: "Wham, Bam, Thank You, Mammy"
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| 1990 || ''[[Decoration Day (film)|Decoration Day]]''<ref name=deecredits3/>
|Rowena
|TV movie
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| 1991 || ''Jazztime Tale'' || Narrator<ref name=deecredits2/>
|TV movie
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| 1992 || ''[[Middle Ages (TV series)|Middle Ages]]'' 
|Estelle Williams
|2 episodes
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| 1993 || ''[[The Ernest Green Story]]''
|Mrs. Lydia Wilson
|TV movie
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| 1993 || ''[[Evening Shade]]'' 
|Aurelia Danforth
|Episode: "They Can't Take That Away from Me"
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| 1994 || ''[[The Stand (1994 miniseries)|The Stand]]'' || Mother Abagail Freemantle || Miniseries
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| 1994 || ''[[Whitewash (1994 film)|Whitewash]]''<ref name=deecredits3/>
|Grandmother (voice)
|TV movie
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| 1995 || ''[[American Masters]]'' || Narrator||Episode: "Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul"
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| 1996 || ''[[Mr. and Mrs. Loving]]''<ref name=deecredits3/>
|Sophia
|TV movie
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| 1996 || ''[[James Mink|Captive Heart: The James Mink Story]]''
|Indigo
|TV movie
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| 1998 || ''[[The Wall (1998 American film)|The Wall]]''<ref name=deecredits3/>
|Mrs. Mitchell
|TV movie
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| 1998 || ''[[Promised Land (1996 TV series)|Promised Land]]''
|Alicia
|Episode: "Baptism of Fire"
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| 1998 || ''[[Cosby (TV series)|Cosby]]''
|Mattie
|Episode: "Ol' Betsy"
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| 1999–2004 || ''[[Little Bill]]'' || Alice the Great (voice)
|47 episodes
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| 1999 || ''[[Passing Glory]]''
|Mommit Porter
|TV movie
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| 1999 || ''[[Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (film)|Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years]]''
|[[Bessie Delany]]
|TV movie
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| 1999 || ''[[Touched by an Angel]]'' || LaBelle Springbelt||Episode: "The Christmas Gift"
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| 2000 || ''[[A Storm in Summer]]''<ref name=deecredits3/>
|Grandmother
|TV movie
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| 2000 || ''Finding Buck McHenry''<ref name=deecredits3/>
|Mrs. Henry
|TV movie
|-
| 2000 || ''[[Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child]]''
|Grandma (voice)
|Episode: "The Steadfast Tin Soldier"
|-
| 2001 || ''[[Between the Lions]]'' 
|Woodcutter's Wife
|Episode: "Bug Beard"
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| 2001 || ''[[The Feast of All Saints (novel)#Adaptation|The Feast of All Saints]]'' || Elsie Claviere|| Miniseries
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| 2001 || ''Taking Back Our Town''<ref name=deecredits3/>
|Emelda West
|TV movie
|-
| 2004 || ''[[Fatherhood (TV series)|Fatherhood]]''
|Louise (voice)
|Episode: "It's a Dad, Dad World"
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| 2005 || ''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God (film)|Their Eyes Were Watching God]]''
|Nanny
|TV movie
|-
| 2007 || ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]''
|Mary Wilson
|Episode: "Empty Eyes"
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| 2008 || ''[[Mary Ellen Pleasant#Posthumous recognition|Meet Mary Pleasant]]''
|Herself
|TV movie
|-
| 2009 || ''[[America (2009 film)|America]]''
|Mrs. Harper
|TV movie
|-
| 2013 || ''[[Betty & Coretta]]'' ||Narrator ||TV movie<ref>{{cite web |last=Sharp |first=Diamond |url=http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/06/ruby_dee_advice_from_a_legend.html?wpisrc=burger |title=Ruby Dee: Advice From a Legend |publisher=The Root |access-date=June 13, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304034815/http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/06/ruby_dee_advice_from_a_legend.html?wpisrc=burger |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
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===Theatre===
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* ''On Strivers Row'' (1940)<ref name=deecredits1>{{cite web |url=http://www.ossieandruby.com/dee-credits-1.html |title=Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee: Ruby Dee Stage Credits |publisher=Ossieandruby.com |date=December 9, 1948 |access-date=June 13, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140530234316/http://www.ossieandruby.com/dee-credits-1.html |archive-date=May 30, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
* ''Natural Man'' (1941)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''Starlight'' (1942)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''Three's a Family'' (1943)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''South Pacific'' (1943)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''Walk Hard'' (1944)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''[[Jeb (play)|Jeb]]'' (1946)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''Anna Lucasta'' (1946) (replacement for [[Hilda Simms]])<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''[[Arsenic and Old Lace (play)|Arsenic and Old Lace]]'' (1946)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''[[John Loves Mary]]'' (1946)
* ''A Long Way From Home'' (1948)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''The Smile of the World'' (1949)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''The World of [[Sholom Aleichem]]'' (1953)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''[[A Raisin in the Sun]]'' (1959)
* ''[[Purlie Victorious]]'' (1961)<ref name=deecredits1/>
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* ''[[King Lear]]'' (1965)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'' (1965)<ref name=deecredits1/>
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* ''[[The Birds (play)|The Birds]]'' (1966)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''[[Oresteia]]'' (1966)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''[[Boesman and Lena]]'' (1970)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''[[The Imaginary Invalid]]'' (1971)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''The Wedding Band'' (1972)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''[[Hamlet]]'' (1975)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''[[Bus Stop (play)|Bus Stop]]'' (1979)
* ''Twin-Bit Gardens'' (1979)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''Zora is My Name!'' (1983)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''Checkmates'' (1988)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'' (1989)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''The Disappearance'' (1993)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''Flying West'' (1994)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''Two Hahs-Hahs and a Homeboy'' (1995)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''My One Good Nerve: A Visit with Ruby Dee'' (1996)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''A Last Dance for Sybil'' (2002)<ref name=deecredits1/>
* ''Saint Lucy's Eyes'' (2003)<ref name=deecredits1/>
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