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Ossie Davis
Ossie Davis (born Raiford Chatman Davis; December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an American film, television and Broadway actor, director, poet, playwright, author, and social activist.〔(Ossie Davis – Awards ) IMDB. 2012. Retrieved March 17, 2012〕〔(Ossie Davis Television Credits ) Official Website of Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee. 2012. Retrieved March 17, 2012〕〔(Books ) Official Website of Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee. 2012. Retrieved March 17, 2012〕
==Early years==
Davis was born Raiford Chatman Davis in Cogdell, Clinch County, Georgia, a son of Kince Charles Davis, a railway construction engineer, and his wife Laura (''née'' Cooper; July 9, 1898 – June 6, 2004). The name Ossie came from a county clerk who misheard his mother's pronunciation of his initials "R.C." when he was born. So he inadvertently became "Ossie" when his mother told the courthouse clerk in Clinch County, Ga., who was filing his birth certificate that his name was ''R.C. Davis.'' Davis experienced racism from an early age when the KKK threatened to shoot his father, whose job they felt was too advanced for a black man to have. Following the wishes of his parents, he attended Howard University but dropped out in 1939 to fulfill his acting career in New York; he later attended Columbia University School of General Studies. His acting career, which spanned eight decades, began in 1939 with the Rose McClendon Players in Harlem. During World War II, Davis served in the United States Army in the Medical Corps. He made his film debut in 1950 in the Sidney Poitier film ''No Way Out''. He voiced Anansi the spider on the PBS children's television series ''Sesame Street'' in its animation segments.
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