Sidney Poitier

Known for ActingBorn 1927-02-20Died 2022-01-06Miami, Florida, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

Quincy Jones: In the Pocket

Free of Eden

Kraft Television Theatre

Hollywood Black

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

Cinépanorama

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

The Last Brickmaker in America

Afro Promo

Night of 100 Stars II

Nationtime

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

Sidney

Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

Remembering Gene Wilder

In the Heat of the Night

Good-bye, My Lady

A Raisin in the Sun

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

A Patch of Blue

Mr. SOUL!

The Kennedy Center Honors

To Sir, with Love

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Children of the Dust

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

Sing Your Song

Mandela and de Klerk

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

Omnibus

Lilies of the Field

Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley

Sneakers

The Slender Thread

Let's Do It Again

Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback

Edge of the City

The Defiant Ones

Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light

The Bedford Incident

A Cinderella Named Elizabeth

Golden Globe Awards

The Oscars

The Dick Cavett Show