JFK himself, Ossie Davis Is Dead

[Mr_Vindictive]

Don't really know what more to say than the title already does.  Ossie was an amazing actor, and he will surely be missed.

Ossie was 87 and was found dead in his hotel room in Miami.

[Jack Corbett]

Why are all the stars dying, Rodney Dangerfield, Katherine Hepburn... who's next?

[Menard]

The legends are one by one leaving us.

Ossie Davis was a star of stage and screen who brought that trademark baritone voice of his to as well the comfort he brought others by his very presence.

Not just stage and screen, Ossie Davie was a notable actvist in the civil rights movement who helped forge a better place for people of all races, and those inspired by him, and those like him, will continue in his absence.

Ossie, along with his wife Ruby Dee, was honored at the Kennedy Center just this past year.

Ossie was working on a movie with co-stars Peter Falk, George Segal and Jack Warden. I hope they keep what work he did in the movie.

Not only a legend of stage and sceen, but a great human being has left us.


Happy Trails Ossie

[Jack Corbett]

Nice speech, Menard.

[Ozzymandias]

He was in the Night Gallery pilot.

[Jack Corbett]

I swear, if Steven Spielberg is next...

[Menard]

Jack Corbett wrote:

> I swear, if Steven Spielberg is next...


My first thought was that Spielberg is not that old. But then neither was John Ritter, Christopher Reeve, Gregory Hines, or Robert Palmer.

Over the past few years, we have lost some big names in the entertainment industry. This week alone we lost three.

[Jack Corbett]

I mean, Spielberg is the guy who made me want to become a film maker! And I'm already an animator (mainly with Lego)!

Okay, I'm done.

[trekgeezer]

Ossie had incredible range as an actor . He could be the wild eyed looney or the wise old man. He had a lot of great parts in tv and movies.  I was really shocked at his age (87) because he was in amazlingly good shape.

He did a lot of things for the civil  rights movement and especially for  people of color in the film industry . I liked a little tribute they gave him on the news the other night.

He was a role model for his race: The Human Race



Post Edited (02-06-05 15:59)

[Yaddo 42]

A class act through and through, who had enough of a sense of humor to play in "Bubba Ho-Tep" as well as serious dramas like "The Hill".

Plus he directed the genre classic "Cotton Comes To Harlem". Was kind of ahead of the curve on black action and genre films before blaxploitation was really established. His film had a dignity and level of satire while still being more entertaining than many of those later films.