Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier (94)

1927-02-20 - 2022-01-06 | Miami, Florida, USA

Sidney Poitier KBE (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. He received 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. Poitier was one of the last major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sidney Poitier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

On Movies

  • The Last Brickmaker in America
  • The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
  • Free of Eden
  • David and Lisa
  • The Jackal
  • Mandela and de Klerk
  • To Sir, with Love II
  • Sneakers
  • Separate But Equal
  • Little Nikita
  • Shoot to Kill
  • Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
  • A Piece of the Action
  • Let's Do It Again
  • The Wilby Conspiracy
  • Uptown Saturday Night
  • A Warm December
  • Buck and the Preacher
  • The Organization
  • Brother John
  • They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
  • The Lost Man
  • For Love of Ivy
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
  • In the Heat of the Night
  • To Sir, with Love
  • Duel at Diablo
  • The Strolling '20s
  • The Slender Thread
  • A Patch of Blue
  • The Bedford Incident
  • The Greatest Story Ever Told
  • The Long Ships
  • Lilies of the Field
  • Pressure Point
  • Paris Blues
  • A Raisin in the Sun
  • All the Young Men
  • Virgin Island
  • Porgy and Bess
  • The Defiant Ones
  • The Mark of the Hawk
  • Band of Angels
  • Something of Value
  • Edge of the City
  • Good-bye, My Lady
  • Blackboard Jungle
  • Go Man Go
  • The Red Ball Express
  • Cry, the Beloved Country
  • No Way Out

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