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Sidney Poitier
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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 tur…
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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.
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Sidney Poitier's Filmography
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The Resurrection of Christ
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
as Self
Remembering Gene Wilder
as Self (archive photos)
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
as Self (archive footage)
Paul Newman: The Restless
as Self (archive footage)
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
Sidney
as Self
Poitier's Walter Lee
as Self (archive footage)
Mr. SOUL!
as Self (archive footage)
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
as Self
The Madding Crowd
as Self (archive footage)
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
as Self
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
as Self
Sing Your Song
as Self
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
as Self
No Poster
Hollywood Legenden
as Self
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
as Self
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
as Self
The Last Brickmaker in America
as Henry Cobb
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
as Self
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
as Noah Dearborn
Free of Eden
as Will Cleamons
David and Lisa
as Dr. Jack Miller
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
as Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
The Jackal
as Carter Preston
Mandela and de Klerk
as Nelson Mandela
Afro Promo
as Self (archive footage)
To Sir, with Love II
as Mark Thackeray
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
as Self
A Century of Cinema
as Self
Sneakers
as Crease
Separate but Equal
as Thurgood Marshall
Little Nikita
as Roy Parmenter
Shoot to Kill
as Warren Stantin
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
as Self - Audience Member
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
as Self
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
I Love Quincy
as Self
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
as Narrator (voice)
A Piece of the Action
as Manny Durrell
Let's Do It Again
as Clyde Williams
The Wilby Conspiracy
as Shack Twala
Uptown Saturday Night
as Steve Jackson
A Warm December
as Dr. Matt Younger
Nationtime: Gary
as Self - Narrator
Buck and the Preacher
as Buck
The Organization
as Virgil Tibbs
Brother John
as John Kane
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
as Virgil Tibbs
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
The Lost Man
as Jason Higgs
No Poster
Three Young Americans in Search of Survival
as Himself
For Love of Ivy
as Jack Parks
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
as John Prentice
In the Heat of the Night
as Virgil Tibbs
To Sir, with Love
as Mark Thackeray
Duel at Diablo
as Toller
The Strolling '20s
as Self
The Slender Thread
as Alan Newell
A Patch of Blue
as Gordon Ralfe
The Bedford Incident
as Ben Munceford
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Simon of Cyrene
A Cinderella Named Elizabeth
as Self
The Long Ships
as Aly Mansuh
Lilies of the Field
as Homer Smith
Pressure Point
as Doctor
Paris Blues
as Eddie Cook
A Raisin in the Sun
as Walter Lee Younger
All the Young Men
as Sgt. Eddie Towler
Virgin Island
as Marcus
Porgy and Bess
as Porgy
The Defiant Ones
as Noah Cullen
The Mark of the Hawk
as Obam
Band of Angels
as Rau-Ru
Something of Value
as Kimani Wa Karanja
Edge of the City
as Tommy Tyler
Good-bye, My Lady
as Gates Watson
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
as Tommy Tyler
Blackboard Jungle
as Gregory W. Miller
Go Man Go
as Inman Jackson
The Red Ball Express
as Robertson
Cry, the Beloved Country
as Reverend Msimangu
No Way Out
as Luther Brooks
Sepia Cinderella
as Nightclub Extra (uncredited)