45 credits
- Train Ride
2005 Dean of Students
- Down in the Delta
1998 Annie Sinclair
- Rosewood
1997 Aunt Sarah
- My Fellow Americans
1996 Rita
- Promised Land
1996 Mary Harding
- How to Make an American Quilt
1995 Aunt Pauline
- Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West
1995 Clara Brown
- Touched by an Angel
1994 Mary Harding
- Scarlett
1994 Mammy
- House of Cards
1993 Adelle
- To Dance with the White Dog
1993 Neelie
- Message from Nam
1993 Queenie / Elizabeth McQueen
- Cape Fear
1991 Woman Watching Cady Get Out from Under the Car (uncredited)
- The Kid Who Loved Christmas
1990 Esther Clayton
- Singer and Sons
1990
- Driving Miss Daisy
1989 Idella
- Age-Old Friends
1989 Mrs. Baker
- The Mighty Quinn
1989 Ubu Pearl
- A Raisin in the Sun
1989 Lena 'Mama' Younger
- P.K. and the Kid
1987 Mim
- Ethnic Notions
1986 Narrator
- Murder, She Wrote
1984 Margaret
- Finder of Lost Loves
1984 Nellie
- Mike Hammer
1984 Viola Green
- The Grand Baby
1983 Momma
- The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
1982 Nurse
- The New Odd Couple
1982 Ms. Gibbs
- American Playhouse
1982 Church Woman
- See China and Die
1981 Momma Sykes
- Flamingo Road
1981
- Darkroom
1981 Old Woman
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1979 Momma
- Summer of My German Soldier
1978 Ruth
- The Love Boat
1977 Judge Kramer
- Good Times
1974 Florida Evans
- Cleopatra Jones
1973 Mrs. Johnson
- Don't Play Us Cheap
1973 Miss Maybell
- Maude
1972 Florida Evans
- Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow!
1971 Maid
- The Learning Tree
1969 uncredited
- Up the Down Staircase
1967 Teacher
- Nothing But a Man
1964 Church Woman
- To Kill a Mockingbird
1962 uncredited role
