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Sidney Poitier
Miami, 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 Bahamia…
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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.
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- 2026
- 2025
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2024
Hollywood Black
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2024
Remembering Gene Wilder
Movie Self (archive photos)
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2023
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2023
Paul Newman: The Restless
Movie Self
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2023
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
Sidney
Movie Self
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2018
Poitier's Walter Lee
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2018
Mr. SOUL!
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2017
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2017
The Madding Crowd
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2013
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
Movie Self
- 2013
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2012
Sing Your Song
Movie Self
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2007
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Movie Self
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2004
Hollywood Legenden
Movie Self
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2003
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
Movie Self
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2001
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
Movie Self
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2001
The Last Brickmaker in America
Movie Henry Cobb
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2000
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
Movie Self
- 2000
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1999
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
Movie Noah Dearborn
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1999
Free of Eden
Movie Will Cleamons
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1998
David and Lisa
Movie Dr. Jack Miller
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1998
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Movie Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
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1997
The Jackal
Movie Carter Preston
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1997
Mandela and de Klerk
Movie Nelson Mandela
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1997
Afro Promo
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1996
To Sir, with Love II
Movie Mark Thackeray
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1995
Children of the Dust
TV show Gypsy Smith
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1995
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
Movie Self
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1992
Sneakers
Movie Crease
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1991
Separate but Equal
Movie Thurgood Marshall
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1991
Separate but Equal
TV show Thurgood Marshall
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1990
Ghost Dad
Movie Director
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1988
Little Nikita
Movie Roy Parmenter
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1988
Shoot to Kill
Movie Warren Stantin
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1988
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Movie Self - Audience Member
- 1986
