Acting
Sidney Poitier
Born 1927-02-20 · Miami, Florida, USA · Died 2022-01-07
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.
Known for
Sneakers
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Shoot to Kill
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
The Greatest Story Ever Told
In the Heat of the Night
Ghost Dad
The Jackal
Stir Crazy
Duel at Diablo
The Bedford Incident
Hanky Panky
To Sir, with Love
Little Nikita
A Raisin in the Sun
The Defiant Ones
No Way Out
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Blackboard Jungle
Separate But Equal
I Am Not Your Negro
The Long Ships
A Patch of Blue
Buck and the Preacher
Band of Angels
To Sir, with Love II
The Wilby Conspiracy
Paris Blues
And the Oscar Goes to...
The Slender Thread
Lilies of the Field
Let's Do It Again
A Piece of the Action
The Organization
Sidney
Edge of the City
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
Uptown Saturday Night
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night