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| name = Beah Richards | image = Beah Richards Bill Cosby Show 1970 (cropped).JPG | imagesize = | caption = Beah Richards on The Bill Cosby Show (1970) | birth_name = Beulah Elizabeth Richardson | birth_date = {{birth date|1920|7|12|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2000|9|14|1920|7|12|mf=yes}} | death_place = Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S. | alma_mater = Dillard University | occupation = Actress | notable_works = Guess Who's Coming to Dinner The Next Generations | years_active = 1955–2000 | spouse = Hugh Harrell Jr. (divorced) }} Beulah Elizabeth Richardson (July 12, 1920 – September 14, 2000), known professionally as Beah Richards, was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. She was also a poet, playwright, and author. Richards was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for her supporting role in the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 1968, as well as winning two Primetime Emmy Awards for her guest roles in the television series Frank's Place in 1988 and The Practice in 2000. She also received a Tony Award nomination for her performance in the 1965 production of The Amen Corner. Life and careerShe was born Beulah Elizabeth Richardson in Vicksburg, Mississippi; her mother was a seamstress and PTA advocate and her father was a Baptist minister. In 1948, she graduated from Dillard University in New Orleans and two years later moved to New York City.[1] Her career began in 1955 when she portrayed an eighty-four-year-old-grandmother in the off-Broadway show Take a Giant Step. She often played the role of a mother or grandmother, and continued acting her entire life. She appeared in the original Broadway productions of Purlie Victorious, The Miracle Worker, and A Raisin in the Sun. From the 1930's to the late 50's, Richards was a member and organizer with the Communist Party USA in Los Angeles after befriending artist Paul Robeson. She is among the Black women who "actively participated in movements affiliated with the CPUSA" between 1917's Bolshevik Revolution and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 revelations.[2] She was later a sponsor of the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis.[3] Richards was nominated for a Tony Award for her 1965 performance in James Baldwin's The Amen Corner.[4] She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Sidney Poitier's mother in the 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.[1] Other notable movie performances include Hurry Sundown, The Great White Hope, Beloved and In the Heat of the Night. She made numerous guest television appearances including roles on Beauty and the Beast, The Bill Cosby Show, Sanford and Son, Benson, Designing Women, The Practice, The Big Valley and ER (as Dr. Peter Benton's mother.) She was the winner of two Emmy Awards, one in 1988 for her appearance on the series Frank's Place, and another in 2000 for her appearance on The Practice.[1] DeathRichards died from emphysema in her hometown of Vicksburg, Mississippi at the age of 80.[5][6] DocumentaryIn the last year of her life, Richards was the subject of a documentary created by actress Lisa Gay Hamilton. The documentary A Black Woman Speaks was created from over 70 hours of their conversations. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the AFI Film Festival.[7] Further readingRadicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War (2011), by Dayo Gore, is about Richards and others. Filmography
width=35% |align=right |quote="There are a lot of movies out there that I would hate to be paid to do, some real demeaning, real woman-denigrating stuff. It is up to women to change their roles. They are going to have to write the stuff and do it. And they will." |source=– Beah Richards }} References{{Ibid|date=March 2019}}1. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/oct/25/guardianobituaries.filmnews|title=Obituary: Beah Richards|author=Brian Baxter|work=the Guardian|accessdate=27 December 2014}} 2. ^Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism, McDuffie, Erik S. "Throughout the Party, they advanced Black liberation, women's rights, decolonization, economic justice, peace, and international solidarity. The key figures in this story … are Audley "Queen Mother" Moore, Louise Thompson Patterson, Thyra Edwards, Bonita Williams, Williana Burroughs, Claudia Jones, Esther Cooper Jackson, Beaulah Richardson (Beah Richards), Grace P. Campbell, Charlene Mitchell, and Sallye Bell Davis." 3. ^ibid 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=77954|title=Beah Richards - IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information|author=The Broadway League|publisher=|accessdate=27 December 2014}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/16/arts/beah-richards-80-actress-in-stalwart-roles.html|title=Beah Richards, 80, Actress in Stalwart Roles|date=16 September 2000|publisher=|accessdate=27 December 2014}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2000/sep/16/local/me-21916|title=Beah Richards; Oscar Nominee for 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner'|work=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=27 December 2014}} 7. ^[https://variety.com/2003/film/markets-festivals/beah-a-black-woman-speaks-1200537936/ Variety] External links
| title = Awards for Beah Richards | list ={{EmmyAward ComedyGuestActress}}{{EmmyAward DramaGuestActress 2001–2025}} }}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Richards, Beah}} 17 : 1920 births|2000 deaths|Actresses from Mississippi|African-American actresses|American film actresses|20th-century American poets|American stage actresses|American television actresses|Deaths from emphysema|Primetime Emmy Award winners|People from Vicksburg, Mississippi|Dillard University alumni|20th-century American actresses|American women poets|American women dramatists and playwrights|20th-century American women writers|20th-century American dramatists and playwrights |
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