ABSTRACT
An actor, playwright, director, and activist, Davis was born in Cog-dell, Georgia, and performed on stage, screen, and television. He and his actress wife, Ruby Dee, appeared on Howard University’s WBBM-TV’s In Other Words … Ossie and Ruby, and cohosted the Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee Story Hour on radio from 1974 to 1978 and the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) television series With Ossie and Ruby in 1981.
