Sidney Poitier
Acting
- Born:
- 1927-02-20
- Died:
- 2022-01-06
- Place of birth:
- Miami, Florida, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Resurrection of Christ
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
Hollywood Black
Remembering Gene Wilder
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Paul Newman: The Restless
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
Sidney
Poitier's Walter Lee
Mr. SOUL!
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
The Madding Crowd
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Sing Your Song
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Hollywood Legenden
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
The Last Brickmaker in America
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
Free of Eden
David and Lisa
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
The Jackal
Mandela and de Klerk
Afro Promo
To Sir, with Love II
Children of the Dust
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
A Century of Cinema
Sneakers
Separate but Equal
Separate but Equal
Little Nikita
Shoot to Kill
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Night of 100 Stars II
I Love Quincy
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
The Kennedy Center Honors
A Piece of the Action
Let's Do It Again
The Wilby Conspiracy
Uptown Saturday Night
A Warm December
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Nationtime: Gary
Buck and the Preacher
Film '72
The Organization
Brother John
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
The Lost Man
Three Young Americans in Search of Survival
For Love of Ivy
The Dick Cavett Show
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Omnibus
In the Heat of the Night
To Sir, with Love
ABC Stage 67
Duel at Diablo
The Strolling '20s
The Slender Thread
A Patch of Blue
The Bedford Incident
The Greatest Story Ever Told
A Cinderella Named Elizabeth
The Long Ships
Lilies of the Field
Pressure Point
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Merv Griffin Show
The Mike Douglas Show
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
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Something of Value
Edge of the City
Good-bye, My Lady
Tony Awards
Cinépanorama
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
Blackboard Jungle
Go Man Go
Kraft Television Theatre
The Oscars
Omnibus
The Red Ball Express
Cry, the Beloved Country
No Way Out
The Philco Television Playhouse
Sepia Cinderella
Golden Globe Awards