page_title: Ossie Davis
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Ossie Davis / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: October 9, 2000 Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee African American legendary Acting dou.
context_page_description: Raiford Chatman "Ossie" Davis was an American film, television and Broadway actor, director, poet, playwright, author, and civil rights activist.
  He was married to Ruby Dee, with whom he frequently performed, until his death.
  He and his wife were named to the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame; were awarded the National Medal of Arts and were recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1994.
context_section_description: In 1948, Davis married actress Ruby Dee, whom he had met on the set of Robert Ardrey's 1946 play Jeb. In their joint autobiography With Ossie and Ruby, they described their decision to have an open marriage, later changing their minds. In the mid-1960s they moved to the New York suburb of New Rochelle, where they remained ever after. Their son Guy Davis is a blues musician and former actor, who appeared in the film Beat Street (1984) and the daytime soap opera One Life to Live. Their daughters are Nora Davis Day and Hasna Muhammad.
caption: Davis and Dee
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