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.
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Movies (46)
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2023
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
as Self
2022
Sidney
as Self
2022
Poitier's Walter Lee
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Mr. SOUL!
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
as Self
2017
The Madding Crowd
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
as Self
2013
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
as Self
2013
Sing Your Song
as Self
2012
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
as Self
2007
Hollywood Legenden
as Self
2004
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
as Self
2003
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
as Self
2001
The Last Brickmaker in America
as Henry Cobb
2001
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
as Self
2000
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
2000
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
as Noah Dearborn
1999
Free of Eden
as Will Cleamons
1999
David and Lisa
as Dr. Jack Miller
1998
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
as Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
1998
The Jackal
as Carter Preston
1997
Mandela and de Klerk
as Nelson Mandela
1997
Afro Promo
as Self (archive footage)
1997
To Sir, with Love II
as Mark Thackeray
1996
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
as Self
1995
Sneakers
as Crease
1992
Separate But Equal
as Thurgood Marshall
1991
Ghost Dad
Director (Directing)
1990
Little Nikita
as Roy Parmenter
1988
Shoot to Kill
as Warren Stantin
1988
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
as Self - Audience Member
1988
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
as Self
1986
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
1985
Fast Forward
Director (Directing)
1985
I Love Quincy
as Self
1984
Hanky Panky
Director (Directing)
1982
Stir Crazy
Director (Directing)
1980
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
as Narrator (voice)
1979
A Piece of the Action
as Manny Durrell
1977
Let's Do It Again
as Clyde Williams
1975
The Wilby Conspiracy
as Shack Twala
1975
Uptown Saturday Night
as Steve Jackson
1974
A Warm December
as Dr. Matt Younger
1973
Nationtime
as Self - Narrator
1972
