Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 20, 1927
Died
Jan 06, 2022
Place of Birth
Miami, Florida, USA
Credits
108 titles
Sidney Poitier
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
Hollywood Black
Self (archive footage)
Remembering Gene Wilder
Self (archive photos)
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Self (archive footage)
Paul Newman: The Restless
Self
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
Self
Sidney
Self
Poitier's Walter Lee
Self (archive footage)
Mr. SOUL!
Self (archive footage)
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
Self
The Madding Crowd
Self (archive footage)
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
Self
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Self
Sing Your Song
Self
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Self
Hollywood Legenden
Self
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
Self
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
Self
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
Self
Sneakers
Crease
Separate but Equal
Thurgood Marshall
Separate but Equal
Thurgood Marshall
Ghost Dad
Director
Little Nikita
Roy Parmenter
Shoot to Kill
Warren Stantin
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Self - Audience Member
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Self
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
Fast Forward
Director
I Love Quincy
Self
Hanky Panky
Director
Stir Crazy
Director
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
Narrator (voice)
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
A Piece of the Action
Manny Durrell
Let's Do It Again
Clyde Williams
The Wilby Conspiracy
Shack Twala