Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier KBE 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.
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TV Series
The Philco Television Playhouse
6.286
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
6.3
The Oscars
7.056
The Kennedy Center Honors
7.4
Children of the Dust
7
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.459
Separate but Equal
6
Tony Awards
5.917
The Philco Television Playhouse
6.286
Cinépanorama
8
The Dick Cavett Show
6.8
Omnibus
6
Golden Globe Awards
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
7.2
ABC Stage 67
6.2
The Merv Griffin Show
6.222
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
7
Kraft Television Theatre
0
Movies
Duel at Diablo
6.3
Sneakers
6.908
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
7.6
The Greatest Story Ever Told
6.4
In the Heat of the Night
7.6
Porgy and Bess
6.1
Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte
9
The Jackal
6.381
The Defiant Ones
7.1
The Wilby Conspiracy
6.4
Shoot to Kill
6.6
Buck and the Preacher
6.2
Blackboard Jungle
6.861
To Sir, with Love
7.505
A Patch of Blue
7.6
Paris Blues
6.5
Little Nikita
6.031
Pressure Point
6.6
Hollywood Legenden
2
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
7.5
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
5.8
Edge of the City
7.095
No Way Out
6.923
Uptown Saturday Night
6.1
Let's Do It Again
6.9
A Raisin in the Sun
7.7
A Piece of the Action
5.6
Band of Angels
6.2
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
10
The Long Ships
6.1
Lilies of the Field
7.24
The Bedford Incident
6.9
Something of Value
5.5
A Warm December
6.4
The Slender Thread
7.1
For Love of Ivy
5.9
Sing Your Song
6.9
The Mark of the Hawk
3
The Organization
5.9
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
5.8
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
10
David and Lisa
5.533
To Sir, with Love II
6.4
Paul Newman: The Restless
8.1
Brother John
6.2
Separate But Equal
6.5
A Cinderella Named Elizabeth
7
All the Young Men
6.3
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
6.5
Sidney
7.514
The Last Brickmaker in America
7.6
The Red Ball Express
5.8
The Lost Man
4
Free of Eden
10
Cry, the Beloved Country
6.1
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
6.7
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
0
I Love Quincy
0
Mandela and de Klerk
6.5
Virgin Island
5
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
0
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
7.091
Good-bye, My Lady
7.7
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
0
Night of 100 Stars II
8
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
7.7
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
8
Afro Promo
0
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
6.841
The Strolling '20s
0
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
6.2
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
8
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
7.176
Go Man Go
5.7
And the Oscar Goes To...
6.991
Poitier's Walter Lee
0
Nationtime
8
The Madding Crowd
0
Mr. SOUL!
7
I Am Not Your Negro
7.7
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
6
Three Young Americans in Search of Survival
0
Sepia Cinderella
4.8
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
0