Sidney Poitier

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1927-02-20 (95 years old)

Deathday

2022-01-06

Place of Birth

Miami, Florida, USA

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 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.

Acting

1966

1992

Sneakers

as Crease

1967

1965

1959

1967

1997

The Jackal

as Carter Preston

1958

The Defiant Ones

as Noah Cullen

1975

The Wilby Conspiracy

as Shack Twala

1988

Shoot to Kill

as Warren Stantin

1955

Blackboard Jungle

as Gregory W. Miller

1967

To Sir, with Love

as Mark Thackeray

1965

A Patch of Blue

as Gordon Ralfe

1961

Paris Blues

as Eddie Cook

1988

Little Nikita

as Roy Parmenter

1962

1970

1950

No Way Out

as Luther Brooks

1957

Edge of the City

as Tommy Tyler

1974

Uptown Saturday Night

as Steve Jackson

1975

Let's Do It Again

as Clyde Williams

1961

A Raisin in the Sun

as Walter Lee Younger

1977

A Piece of the Action

as Manny Durrell

1957

1964

The Long Ships

as Aly Mansuh

1963

Lilies of the Field

as Homer Smith

1965

The Bedford Incident

as Ben Munceford

1957

Something of Value

as Kimani Wa Karanja

1973

A Warm December

as Dr. Matt Younger

1965

The Slender Thread

as Alan Newell

1968

For Love of Ivy

as Jack Parks

2012

1971

The Organization

as Virgil Tibbs

1998

David and Lisa

as Dr. Jack Miller

1996

To Sir, with Love II

as Mark Thackeray

2023

Paul Newman: The Restless

as Self (archive footage)

1971

Brother John

as John Kane

1991

Separate But Equal

as Thurgood Marshall

1960

All the Young Men

as Sgt. Eddie Towler

2023

Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback

as Self (archive footage)

2022

Sidney

as Self

1952

1969

The Lost Man

as Jason Higgs

1999

Free of Eden

as Will Cleamons

1951

Cry, the Beloved Country

as Reverend Msimangu

1984

1997

Mandela and de Klerk

as Nelson Mandela

1959

Virgin Island

as Marcus

1955

1956

Good-bye, My Lady

as Gates Watson

2022

Denzel Washington: A Model American

as Self (archive footage)

1998

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

as Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)

1997

Afro Promo

as Self (archive footage)

1979

1954

Go Man Go

as Inman Jackson

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2018

Poitier's Walter Lee

as Self (archive footage)

1972

Nationtime

as Self - Narrator

2017

The Madding Crowd

as Self (archive footage)

2018

Mr. SOUL!

as Self (archive footage)

2017

I Am Not Your Negro

as Various Roles (archive footage)

1947

Sepia Cinderella

as Nightclub Extra (uncredited)

Production

1990

Ghost Dad

as Director

1972

1980

Stir Crazy

as Director

1982

Hanky Panky

as Director

1972

1974

1975

1977

1973

A Warm December

as Director

1968

For Love of Ivy

as Original Story

1985

Fast Forward

as Director

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