Overview
Known for
Acting
Gender
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Birthday
Feb 20, 1927 (98 years old)
Death date
Jan 06, 2022
Sidney Poitier
Known For
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the...
Biography
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.
Acting
2023
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
2023
Paul Newman: The Restless
2023
Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte
2022
Denzel Washington: A Model American
2022
Sidney
2018
Poitier's Walter Lee
2018
Mr. SOUL!
2017
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
2017
I Am Not Your Negro
2017
The Madding Crowd
2013
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
2013
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2007
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2004
Hollywood Legenden
2003
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2001
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
2001
The Last Brickmaker in America
2000
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
2000
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
1999
Free of Eden
1998
David and Lisa
1998
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
1997
The Jackal
1996
To Sir, with Love II
1995
Children of the Dust
1991
Separate but Equal
1991
Separate But Equal
1988
Shoot to Kill
1985
Night of 100 Stars II