Actor Ossie Davis – who appeared in more than 50 movies, including "Jungle Fever" – has died at age 87. The actor was found dead Friday in a motel room in Miami, where he was working on a movie called "Retirement".

An outspoken booster of the black community, Davis was almost as well-known for his civil-rights work as for his appearances on the silver screen. He was a speaker at the funerals of both Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

Davis was seen recently in "Bubba Ho-Tep", the 2002 comic horror film that had him starring as an allegedly still-living – and black – John F. Kennedy, with Bruce Campbell as an aging Elvis Presley.

Source: CBC.ca [1]