Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee (Movie)
2014 / Director: Muta'Ali Muhammad / Avg Rating: 1.5 out of 10
In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love, conscious art, and undying activism.
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Ruby Dee...Mother Sister
Giancarlo Esposito...Buggin Out
Spike Lee...Mookie
Samuel L. Jackson...Mister Señor Love Daddy - Gospel Hill (2008) (Movie) (4)
Angela Bassett...Sarah Malcolm
Danny Glover...John Malcolm
Giancarlo Esposito...Dr. Palmer
Samuel L. Jackson...Paul Malcolm - Making 'Do the Right Thing' (1989) (Movie) (4)
Ruby Dee...Herself
Giancarlo Esposito...Himself
Samuel L. Jackson...Himself
Spike Lee...Himself
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Angela Bassett...Coretta Scott King
Malik Yoba...Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ruby Dee...Narrator - Jungle Fever (1991) (Movie) (3)
Spike Lee...Cyrus
Ruby Dee...Lucinda Purify
Samuel L. Jackson...Gator Purify
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Giancarlo Esposito...Self
Ruby Dee...Self
Cornel West...Self - Malcolm X (1992) (Movie) (3)
Angela Bassett...Betty Shabazz
Spike Lee...Shorty
Giancarlo Esposito...Thomas Hayer
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Spike Lee...Giant
Giancarlo Esposito...Left Hand Lacey (Piano)
Samuel L. Jackson...Madlock
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Angela Bassett...Miles' Mom (voice)
Danny Glover...Train Conductor (voice)
Samuel L. Jackson...Turner (voice)
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Harry Belafonte...Self
Ruby Dee...Self
S. Epatha Merkerson...Eslanda Robeson (voice) - PoliWood (2009) (Movie) (3)
Giancarlo Esposito...Self
Danny Glover...Self
Spike Lee...Self
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Giancarlo Esposito...Julian 'Dean Big Brother Almighty' Eaves
Spike Lee...Darrell 'Half-Pint' Dunlap
Samuel L. Jackson...Leeds
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Angela Bassett...
Ruby Dee...
Samuel L. Jackson...
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Angela Bassett...
Danny Glover...
Spike Lee...
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Angela Bassett...Self
Samuel L. Jackson...Self
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Danny Glover...Hershey
Spike Lee...Filmmaker
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Spike Lee...Self
Harry Belafonte...Self
- Amos & Andrew (1993) (Movie) (2)
Samuel L. Jackson...Andrew Sterling
Giancarlo Esposito...The Reverend Fenton Brunch
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Angela Bassett...Ramonda
Samuel L. Jackson...Nick Fury
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Angela Bassett...Self
Samuel L. Jackson...Self - Beloved (1998) (Movie) (2)
Danny Glover...Paul D. Garner
Hill Harper...Halle - Betsy's Wedding (1990) (Movie) (2)
Alan Alda...Eddie Hopper
Samuel L. Jackson...Taxi Dispatcher (Mickey) - Between the World and Me (2020) (Movie) (2)
Angela Bassett...Self
Phylicia Rashād...Self - Birth of a Movement (2017) (Movie) (2)
Danny Glover...Narrator
Spike Lee...Self
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Samuel L. Jackson...Lazarus
S. Epatha Merkerson...Angela
- Blue in the Face (1995) (Movie) (2)
Giancarlo Esposito...Tommy Finelli
Malik Yoba...Watch Man
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Danny Glover...Boesman
Angela Bassett...Lena
- Buck and the Preacher (1972) (Movie) (2)
Harry Belafonte...The Preacher
Ruby Dee...Ruth
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Spike Lee...Self
Phylicia Rashād...Self
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Angela Bassett...Miss Helen Worthy
Samuel L. Jackson...Dolmedes
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Samuel L. Jackson...Calvin Fredricks
Danny Glover...Dr. Alex Marsh
- Def by Temptation (1990) (Movie) (2)
Samuel L. Jackson...Minister GarthGuy Davis...Bartender #2
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Phylicia Rashād...Gilda
Hill Harper...Donald
- Free to Be… You and Me (1974) (Movie) (2)
Alan Alda...Himself
Harry Belafonte...Himself
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Giancarlo Esposito...Esteban
Samuel L. Jackson...Sam
- Go Tell It on the Mountain (1984) (Movie) (2)
Giancarlo Esposito...Elisha
Ruby Dee...Mrs. Grimes
- Gone Are the Days! (1963) (Movie) (2)
Ruby Dee...Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins
Alan Alda...Charlie Cotchipee
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Angela Bassett...Stella Payne
Danny Glover...(scenes deleted)
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Angela Bassett...Herself
Samuel L. Jackson...Himself
- I Am Not Your Negro (2017) (Movie) (2)
Samuel L. Jackson...Narration (voice)
Harry Belafonte...Self (archive footage)
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Harry Belafonte...Self
Ruby Dee...Self
- Mother and Child (2009) (Movie) (2)
Samuel L. Jackson...Paul
S. Epatha Merkerson...Ada
- Nothing But the Truth (2008) (Movie) (2)
Alan Alda...Alan Burnside
Angela Bassett...Bonnie Benjamin
- On the Shoulders of Giants (2011) (Movie) (2)
Samuel L. Jackson...
Spike Lee...
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Samuel L. Jackson...Champ
Alan Alda...Ralph Metz
- Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993) (Movie) (2)
Giancarlo Esposito...Autobiography Reading (voice)
Spike Lee...
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Spike Lee...Mars Blackmon
S. Epatha Merkerson...Doctor Jamison
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Giancarlo Esposito...Tommy
Malik Yoba...The Creeper
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Phylicia Rashād...Libba Gardner (voice)
Angela Bassett...Dorothea (voice)
- Spike Lee & Company: Do It a Cappella (1990) (Movie) (2)
Samuel L. Jackson...The Janitor
Spike Lee...Self
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Cornel West...Self
Giancarlo Esposito...Self
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Spike Lee...Self
Cornel West...Self
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Harry Belafonte...
Ruby Dee...
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Harry Belafonte...Himself
Danny Glover...Himself
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Hill Harper...Alex
Phylicia Rashād...Dr. Coles
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Danny Glover...Slim Robinson Present Day
Phylicia Rashād...Victoria Young
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987) (Movie) (2)
Samuel L. Jackson...George
Phylicia Rashād...Eliza
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Angela Bassett...Bernie Harris
Giancarlo Esposito...David Matthews
- Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy (2009) (Movie) (2)
Angela Bassett...Narrator (voice)
Cornel West...Self
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Ruby Dee...Zora Neale HurstonGuy Davis...
