1927-02-20 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 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.
AFI Life Achievement Award: 50th Anniversary Special | Self (archive footage) | 2023-12-30 | |
Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte | (archive footage) | 2023-01-23 | |
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback | Self (archive footage) | 2023-07-30 | |
Paul Newman, l'intranquille | Self (archive footage) | 2023-06-11 | |
Denzel Washington - Un modèle américain | Self | 2022-10-15 | |
Sidney | Self | 2022-09-10 | |
Mr. SOUL! | Self (archival footage) | 2018-04-27 | |
Poitier's Walter Lee | Self (archive footage) | 2018-09-25 | |
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart | Self | 2017-10-14 | |
I Am Not Your Negro | Various Roles (archive footage) | 2017-02-03 | |
The Madding Crowd | Self (archive footage) | 2017-02-01 | |
And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 | |
Moms Mabley | Self | 2013-04-20 | |
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington | Self | 2013-01-01 | |
Sing Your Song | Self | 2012-01-13 | |
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project | Self | 2007-10-13 | |
Hollywood Legenden | Self | 2004-01-01 | |
The Making of ‘Sneakers’ | Self | 2003-06-03 | |
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand | Self | 2001-05-31 | |
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket | Self | 2001-11-18 | |
The Last Brickmaker in America | Henry Cobb | 2001-09-23 | |
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light | 2000-02-02 | ||
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters | Self | 2000-06-29 | |
Free of Eden | Will Cleamons | 1999-02-21 | |
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn | Noah Dearborn | 1999-05-09 | |
David and Lisa | Dr. Jack Miller | 1998-11-01 | |
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist | Reverend Msimangu (archive footage) | 1998-01-01 | |
The Jackal | Carter Preston | 1997-11-14 | |
Mandela and de Klerk | Nelson Mandela | 1997-02-16 | |
Afro Promo | Self (archive footage) | 1997-01-31 | |
To Sir, with Love II | Mark Thackeray | 1996-04-07 | |
Sneakers | Crease | 1992-09-09 | |
Separate But Equal | Thurgood Marshall | 1991-04-07 | |
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night | Self - Audience Member | 1988-01-03 | |
Shoot to Kill | Warren Stantin | 1988-02-12 | |
Little Nikita | Roy Parmenter | 1988-03-17 | |
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn | Self | 1986-03-09 | |
Night of 100 Stars II | Self | 1985-03-10 | |
I Love Quincy | Self | 1984-03-23 | |
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist | Narrator (voice) | 1979-10-29 | |
A Piece of the Action | Manny Durrell | 1977-10-07 | |
The Wilby Conspiracy | Shack Twala | 1975-02-01 | |
Let's Do It Again | Clyde Williams | 1975-10-11 | |
Uptown Saturday Night | Steve Jackson | 1974-07-26 | |
A Warm December | Dr. Matt Younger | 1973-05-23 | |
Nationtime | Self - Narrator | 1972-11-01 | |
Buck and the Preacher | Buck | 1972-03-17 | |
Brother John | John Kane | 1971-08-15 | |
The Organization | Virgil Tibbs | 1971-10-20 | |
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage) | 1970-03-24 | |
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! | Virgil Tibbs | 1970-07-10 | |
The Lost Man | Jason Higgs | 1969-07-11 | |
For Love of Ivy | Jack Parks | 1968-07-17 | |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | John Prentice | 1967-12-11 | |
In the Heat of the Night | Virgil Tibbs | 1967-08-02 | |
To Sir, with Love | Mark Thackeray | 1967-06-14 | |
Duel at Diablo | Toller | 1966-06-15 | |
The Strolling '20s | Self | 1966-02-04 | |
The Bedford Incident | Ben Munceford | 1965-10-11 | |
The Slender Thread | Alan Newell | 1965-12-15 | |
The Greatest Story Ever Told | Simon of Cyrene | 1965-04-09 | |
A Patch of Blue | Gordon Ralfe | 1965-12-10 | |
A Cinderella Named Elizabeth | Self | 1965-01-01 | |
The Long Ships | Aly Mansuh | 1964-04-22 | |
Lilies of the Field | Homer Smith | 1963-06-04 | |
Pressure Point | Doctor | 1962-10-10 | |
Paris Blues | Eddie Cook | 1961-09-27 | |
A Raisin in the Sun | Walter Lee Younger | 1961-05-28 | |
All the Young Men | Sgt. Eddie Towler | 1960-08-26 | |
Porgy and Bess | Porgy | 1959-06-24 | |
Virgin Island | Marcus | 1959-08-07 | |
The Defiant Ones | Noah Cullen | 1958-08-14 | |
Something of Value | Kimani Wa Karanja | 1957-05-08 | |
Band of Angels | Rau-Ru | 1957-08-03 | |
Edge of the City | Tommy Tyler | 1957-01-04 | |
The Mark of the Hawk | Obam | 1957-12-01 | |
Good-bye, My Lady | Gates Watson | 1956-05-12 | |
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall | Tommy Tyler | 1955-10-02 | |
Blackboard Jungle | Gregory W. Miller | 1955-03-25 | |
Go Man Go | Inman Jackson | 1954-01-27 | |
The Red Ball Express | Robertson | 1952-05-29 | |
Cry, the Beloved Country | Reverend Msimangu | 1951-11-16 | |
No Way Out | Dr. Luther Brooks | 1950-08-16 |