Editing Ruby Dee (section)

===Television===
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!style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Title
!style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role
!style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Note
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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"
|-
| 1974 || ''[[It's Good to Be Alive (film)|It's Good to Be Alive]]''<ref name=deecredits3/>
|Ruth Campanella
|TV movie
|-
| 1975 || ''[[Police Woman (TV series)|Police Woman]]'' || Cora Sanders|| Episode: "Target Black"
|-
| 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"
|-
| 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
|-
| 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"
|-
| 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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