Ossie Davis Dead...

[El Mudo]

Yikes! (http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/130970/1/.html)

They're dropping like flies to-day...

First Dean Wormer, then Max Schmeling, now Ossie Davis...

I wonder who's going to play the stereotypical "old black man" in the movies now...
http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/concert/images/ossie.jpg


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[El Mudo]

BTW...he was GREAT in "Do the Right Thing"

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[TheMojoPin]

A great, great character actor. Sad to see him go...

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[TheMojoPin]

I wonder who's going to play the stereotypical "old black man" in the movies now...

What's Morgan Freeman, chopped liver?

And what was stereotypical about Davis' roles and performances?

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[El Mudo]

Well...most of the movies I saw him in, like "Do the Right Thing" and "Get On the Bus" etc. he always played the role of a curmudgoney old wise black man...

I probably should've used a better word than "stereotypical"...maybe "typecast" or something like that..

And Morgan Freeman plays too many roles as detectives &c. to really fit into that mold..although I think he would do it well...

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[Tall_James]

And what was stereotypical about Davis' roles

They always cast him as a black guy.

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[TheMojoPin]

And an old guy.

BASTARDS!

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[torker]

They always cast him as a black guy.


His epitaph.

And I call dibs!
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