Ossie Davis — Davis was already a screen and civil rights legend by the time Do the Right Thing appeared in theaters. He played a street wino who dispensed, or tried to, advice to the younger generation while drawing the constant ire of his real-life wife, Ruby Dee.
Davis, who died at 87 in 2005, was a actor, director, screenwriter and stage thespian was also the conscious of black America who devoted his life to civil rights and spoke at the funerals for both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr in the 1960s.
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