(1991) Fried Green Tomatoes

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(1989) The Women of Brewster Place

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(1997) Hoodlum

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(1968) The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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(1981) Bustin' Loose

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(1986) Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story

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(1959) Odds Against Tomorrow

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(1998) Always Outnumbered

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(2006) Idlewild

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(2010) Why Did I Get Married Too?

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(1979) The Concorde... Airport '79

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(1972) Sounder

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(2006) Madea's Family Reunion

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(2005) Because of Winn-Dixie

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(2011) The Help

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(1999) A Lesson Before Dying

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(1976) The River Niger

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(1974) The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

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(2012) Alex Cross

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(1976) The Blue Bird

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(1977) A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich

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(2013) The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia

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(1960) A Morning For Jimmy

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(1997) Ms. Scrooge

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(2001) Jewel

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(1981) The Marva Collins Story

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(1996) The Road to Galveston

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(1966) A Man Called Adam

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(2014) The Trip to Bountiful

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(1994) Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

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(1967) The Comedians

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(1990) Heat Wave

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(1974) Free to Be… You and Me

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(1990) The Kid Who Loved Christmas

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(1977) Wilma

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(2016) Showing Roots

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(1986) Acceptable Risks

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(2009) Relative Stranger

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(1959) The Last Angry Man

as Girl Left on Porch (uncredited)

(1971) Marriage: Year One

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(2005) Diary of a Mad Black Woman

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(1992) Duplicates

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(1985) Playing with Fire

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(2016) Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

as Self

(1986) Intimate Encounters

as Dr. Claire Dalton

(2017) Last Flag Flying

as Mrs. Hightower

(2006) Fat Rose and Squeaky

as Celine

(1989) The Women of Brewster Place

as ---

(1997) Blessed Assurance

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(2002) The Rosa Parks Story

as Leona Edwards McCauley

(1971) Neighbors

as ---

(2014) And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

(1976) Just an Old Sweet Song

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(1957) Carib Gold

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(2020) A Fall from Grace

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(1993) House of Secrets

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(1969) To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words

as ---

(1982) Benny's Place

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(2021) How It Feels to Be Free

as Self (archival footage)

(2019) The Other Boys of Summer

as Narrator

(1982) Night of 100 Stars

as Self

(1965) The F.B.I.

as Julie Harmon

(2005) The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer

as ---

(1988) LIVE with Kelly and Mark

as Self - Guest

(2019) Tamron Hall

as Self - Guest

(1999) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Ondine Burdett

(1958) Naked City

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(1969) The Bill Cosby Show

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(1955) Gunsmoke

as Rachel Biggs

(1966) Mission: Impossible

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(1972) Emergency!

as Mrs. Johnson

(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame

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(1963) East Side/West Side

as ---

(1967) Judd for the Defense

as ---

(1970) The Flip Wilson Show

as Self

(1977) Roots

as Binta

(1973) The American Film Institute Salute to ...

as Self

(1994) Sweet Justice

as ---

(1995) The Outer Limits

as Justice Gretchen Parkhurst

(1953) The Oscars

as Self

(1975) Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

(1989) B.L. Stryker

as ---

(1965) The F.B.I.

as Lainey Harber

(1969) The Courtship of Eddie's Father

as Betty Kelly

(1999) Aftershock: Earthquake in New York

as Emily Lincoln

(1975) People's Choice Awards

as Self - Presenter

(1978) King

as Coretta Scott King

(1998) Mama Flora's Family

as Mama Flora

(1978) A Woman Called Moses

as Harriet Ross Tubman

(1974) Dinah!

as Self

(1961) The Mike Douglas Show

as Self

(1967) Cowboy in Africa

as Julie Anderson

(1961) The Mike Douglas Show

as Self - Co-Host

(1962) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

(2020) Cherish the Day

as Miss Luma Lee Langston

(2001) The Proud Family

as Mrs. Maureen Parker (voice)

(2014) How to Get Away with Murder

as Ophelia Harkness

(2013) House of Cards

as Doris Jones

(1956) Tony Awards

as Self - Host

(2014) Madam Secretary

as Flo Avery

(1956) Tony Awards

as Self - Co-Host

(1994) Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

as Castalia

(1994) Touched by an Angel

as Abigail Peabody-Jackson

(1944) Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter

(1956) Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter