Sidney Poitier
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.
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
The Philco Television Playhouse
6.286
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
6.3
The Oscars
7
The Kennedy Center Honors
7.4
Children of the Dust
7
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.4
Separate but Equal
6
Tony Awards
5.1
The Philco Television Playhouse
6.286
Cinépanorama
8
The Dick Cavett Show
6.7
Omnibus
6
Golden Globe Awards
7
Golden Globe Awards
7
Movies
Duel at Diablo
6.3
Sneakers
6.906
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
7.6
The Greatest Story Ever Told
6.4
Porgy and Bess
6.1
In the Heat of the Night
7.6
Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte
9
The Jackal
6.379
The Defiant Ones
7.127
The Wilby Conspiracy
6.4
Shoot to Kill
6.578
Buck and the Preacher
6.2
Blackboard Jungle
6.9
To Sir, with Love
7.5
A Patch of Blue
7.6
Paris Blues
6.461
Little Nikita
5.995
Pressure Point
6.6
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
7.5
Hollywood Legenden
2
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
6.209
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
10
The Long Ships
6.1
Lilies of the Field
7.2
The Bedford Incident
6.908
Something of Value
5.5
A Warm December
6.4
The Slender Thread
7.1
For Love of Ivy
5.9
The Mark of the Hawk
3
Sing Your Song
6.9
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
6.4
Sidney
7.514
The Last Brickmaker in America
7
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
Denzel Washington: A Model American
7.8
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
7.734
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
6
Three Young Americans in Search of Survival
0
Sepia Cinderella
4.8