Sidney Poitier
Acting
Born 1927-02-20 · Miami, Florida, USA · Died 2022-01-06
Sidney Poitier KBE (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he became the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Lilies of the Field. Other accolades include two competitive Golden Globe Awards, a competitive British Academy of Film and Television Arts award (BAFTA), and a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album. Major films featuring Poitier in a starring role include Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Defiant Ones (1958), To Sir, with Love (1967), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), In the Heat of the Night (1967), Sneakers (1992), and The Jackal (1997). Later in his career, he turned to directing with features such as Buck and the Preacher (1972), Uptown Saturday Night (1974), Stir Crazy (1980), and Ghost Dad (1990). At the time of his death, Poitier was one of the last major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
Acting
The Resurrection of Christ
Hollywood Black
Self (archive footage)
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Self (archive footage)
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
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Sidney
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Poitier's Walter Lee
Self (archive footage)
Mr. SOUL!
Self (archive footage)
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
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The Madding Crowd
Self (archive footage)
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
Self
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
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Sing Your Song
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Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Self
Hollywood Legenden
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The Making of ‘Sneakers’
Self
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
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The Last Brickmaker in America
Henry Cobb
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
Self
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
Noah Dearborn
Free of Eden
Will Cleamons
David and Lisa
Dr. Jack Miller
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
The Jackal
Carter Preston
Mandela and de Klerk
Nelson Mandela
Afro Promo
Self (archive footage)
To Sir, with Love II
Mark Thackeray
Children of the Dust
Gypsy Smith
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
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