Television
Beah Richards, a veteran stage performer and character actor whose best work included her Oscar-nominated portrayal of Sidney Poitier’s mother in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” and who won an Emmy this week for a guest role in ABC’s “The Practice,” has died.
Sept. 16, 2000
Entertainment & Arts
A memorial service for actress Beah Richards is scheduled Oct. 13 at 7 p.m. at the SGI Friendship Center, 5899 Venice Blvd. in the Mid-City area.
Oct. 5, 2000
Movies
Actors Danny Glover, Beah Richards, Louis Gossett Jr., Virginia Capers and William Marshall will be honored by the Black American Cinema Society at the organization’s eight annual awards reception Sunday at the Cary Grant Theater on the Sony/Columbia lot in Culver City.
April 7, 1990
Archives
Linda Ellerbee, KNBC-TV Channel 4 General Manager Carole Black, actress Beah Richards and former Texas Gov.
May 14, 1997
The time is the present.
March 2, 1986
“The Colored Museum,” “Checkmates,” “De Obeah Mon” and “The Gospel Truth” were the big winners Monday night, as the Beverly Hills/Hollwood chapter of the NAACP presented its second annual Theatre Awards to a near-capacity crowd at USC’s Bing Theater.
Feb. 8, 1989
In what ABC says will be a topical, provocative drama unlike any other since “The Day After,” it is producing a TV movie about the dangers of toxic waste.
Jan. 5, 1986
Beah Richards’ one-woman “A Black Woman Speaks,” at the Inner City Cultural Center, is a paean to womanhood of all colors.
Feb. 6, 1987
Books
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 7, 2008
Sept. 7, 2008
With professional black theater so scarce in Los Angeles (indeed everywhere), even a two-performance revival of James Baldwin’s creaky “The Amen Corner” by the Cambridge Players had to be welcome news.
Oct. 21, 1985