Sidney Poitier
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 20, 1927
- Died
- January 6, 2022 (aged 94)
- Birthplace
- Miami, Florida, USA
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.
Known For
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Filmography
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
Movie · as Self
Remembering Gene Wilder
Movie · as Self (archive photos)
Hollywood Black
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 4 eps
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Paul Newman: The Restless
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Sidney
Movie · as Self
Poitier's Walter Lee
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Mr. SOUL!
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
Movie · as Self
The Madding Crowd
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Movie · as Self
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
Movie · as Self
Sing Your Song
Movie · as Self
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Movie · as Self
Hollywood Legenden
Movie · as Self
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
Movie · as Self
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
Movie · as Self
The Last Brickmaker in America
Movie · as Henry Cobb
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
Movie · as Self
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
Movie
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
Movie · as Noah Dearborn
Free of Eden
Movie · as Will Cleamons
David and Lisa
Movie · as Dr. Jack Miller
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Movie · as Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
The Jackal
Movie · as Carter Preston
Mandela and de Klerk
Movie · as Nelson Mandela
Afro Promo
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
To Sir, with Love II
Movie · as Mark Thackeray
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
Movie · as Self
Children of the Dust
TV · as Gypsy Smith · 2 eps
A Century of Cinema
Movie · as Self
Sneakers
Movie · as Crease
Separate but Equal
Movie · as Thurgood Marshall
Separate but Equal
TV · as Thurgood Marshall · 2 eps
Shoot to Kill
Movie · as Warren Stantin
Little Nikita
Movie · as Roy Parmenter
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Movie · as Self - Audience Member
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Movie · as Self
Night of 100 Stars II
Movie · as Self
I Love Quincy
Movie · as Self
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV · as Self · 2 eps
A Piece of the Action
Movie · as Manny Durrell
The Wilby Conspiracy
Movie · as Shack Twala
Let's Do It Again
Movie · as Clyde Williams
Uptown Saturday Night
Movie · as Steve Jackson
A Warm December
Movie · as Dr. Matt Younger
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Buck and the Preacher
Movie · as Buck
Nationtime: Gary
Movie · as Self - Narrator
The Organization
Movie · as Virgil Tibbs
Brother John
Movie · as John Kane
Film '72
TV · as Self · 1 ep
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
Movie · as Virgil Tibbs
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Lost Man
Movie · as Jason Higgs
Three Young Americans in Search of Survival
Movie · as Himself
For Love of Ivy
Movie · as Jack Parks
The Dick Cavett Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Movie · as John Prentice
In the Heat of the Night
Movie · as Det. Virgil Tibbs
To Sir, with Love
Movie · as Mark Thackeray
Omnibus
TV · 1 ep
Duel at Diablo
Movie · as Toller
The Strolling '20s
Movie · as Self
ABC Stage 67
TV · as Self - Host · 1 ep
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Movie · as Simon of Cyrene
A Patch of Blue
Movie · as Gordon Ralfe
The Bedford Incident
Movie · as Ben Munceford
The Slender Thread
Movie · as Alan Newell
A Cinderella Named Elizabeth
Movie · as Self
The Long Ships
Movie · as Aly Mansuh
Lilies of the Field
Movie · as Homer Smith
Pressure Point
Movie · as Doctor
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Merv Griffin Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Paris Blues
Movie · as Eddie Cook
A Raisin in the Sun
Movie · as Walter Lee Younger
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self, Self - Taped Tribute · 1 ep
All the Young Men
Movie · as Sgt. Eddie Towler
Porgy and Bess
Movie · as Porgy
Virgin Island
Movie · as Marcus
The Defiant Ones
Movie · as Noah Cullen
Edge of the City
Movie · as Tommy Tyler
Band of Angels
Movie · as Rau-Ru
Something of Value
Movie · as Kimani Wa Karanja
The Mark of the Hawk
Movie · as Obam
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Good-bye, My Lady
Movie · as Gates Watson
Cinépanorama
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Presenter · 1 ep
Blackboard Jungle
Movie · as Gregory W. Miller
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
Movie · as Tommy Tyler
Go Man Go
Movie · as Inman Jackson
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 7 eps
Kraft Television Theatre
TV · 1 ep
The Red Ball Express
Movie · as Robertson
Omnibus
TV · 1 ep
Cry, the Beloved Country
Movie · as Reverend Msimangu
No Way Out
Movie · as Luther Brooks
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV · as Tommy Tyler · 1 ep
Sepia Cinderella
Movie · as Nightclub Extra (uncredited)
Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self - Nominee, Self - Presenter · 1 ep