Birthday: Feb 20, 1927
Place of Birth: Miami, Florida, USA

Sidney Poitier

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.

Filmography

Movie	Cast	Year
Duel at Diablo	Toller	1966
Sneakers	Crease	1992
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	John Prentice	1967
The Greatest Story Ever Told	Simon of Cyrene	1965
Porgy and Bess	Porgy	1959
In the Heat of the Night	Virgil Tibbs	1967
Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte	(archive footage)	2023
The Jackal	Carter Preston	1997
The Defiant Ones	Noah Cullen	1958
The Wilby Conspiracy	Shack Twala	1975
Shoot to Kill	Warren Stantin	1988
Buck and the Preacher	Buck	1972
Blackboard Jungle	Gregory W. Miller	1955
To Sir, with Love	Mark Thackeray	1967
A Patch of Blue	Gordon Ralfe	1965
Paris Blues	Eddie Cook	1961
Little Nikita	Roy Parmenter	1988
Pressure Point	Doctor	1962
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night	Self - Audience Member	1988
Hollywood Legenden	Self	2004
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!	Virgil Tibbs	1970
No Way Out	Dr. Luther Brooks	1950
Edge of the City	Tommy Tyler	1957
Uptown Saturday Night	Steve Jackson	1974
Let's Do It Again	Clyde Williams	1975
A Raisin in the Sun	Walter Lee Younger	1961
A Piece of the Action	Manny Durrell	1977
Band of Angels	Rau-Ru	1957
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket	Self	2001
The Long Ships	Aly Mansuh	1964
Lilies of the Field	Homer Smith	1963
The Bedford Incident	Ben Munceford	1965
Something of Value	Kimani Wa Karanja	1957
A Warm December	Dr. Matt Younger	1973
The Slender Thread	Alan Newell	1965
For Love of Ivy	Jack Parks	1968
Sing Your Song	Self	2012
The Mark of the Hawk	Obam	1957
The Organization	Virgil Tibbs	1971
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn	Noah Dearborn	1999
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington	Self	2013
David and Lisa	Dr. Jack Miller	1998
To Sir, with Love II	Mark Thackeray	1996
Paul Newman: The Restless	Self (archive footage)	2023
Brother John	John Kane	1971
Separate But Equal	Thurgood Marshall	1991
A Cinderella Named Elizabeth	Self	1965
All the Young Men	Sgt. Eddie Towler	1960
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback	Self (archive footage)	2023
Sidney	Self	2022
The Last Brickmaker in America	Henry Cobb	2001
The Red Ball Express	Robertson	1952
The Lost Man	Jason Higgs	1969
Free of Eden	Will Cleamons	1999
Cry, the Beloved Country	Reverend Msimangu	1951
Moms Mabley	Self	2013
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters	Self	2000
I Love Quincy	Self	1984
Mandela and de Klerk	Nelson Mandela	1997
Virgin Island	Marcus	1959
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall	Tommy Tyler	1955
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis	Self (archive footage)	1970
Good-bye, My Lady	Gates Watson	1956
The Making of ‘Sneakers’	Self	2003
Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain	Self (archive footage)	2022
Night of 100 Stars II	Self	1985
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist	Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)	1998
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick	Self	1995
Afro Promo	Self (archive footage)	1997
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project	Self	2007
The Strolling '20s	Self	1966
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart	Self	2017
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn	Self	1986
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist	Narrator (voice)	1979
Go Man Go	Inman Jackson	1954
And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	2014
Poitier's Walter Lee	Self (archive footage)	2018
Nationtime	Self - Narrator	1972
The Madding Crowd	Self (archive footage)	2017
Mr. SOUL!	Self (archive footage)	2018
I Am Not Your Negro	Various Roles (archive footage)	2017
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light		2000
Series	Cast	Year
The Philco Television Playhouse		1948
The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self	1973
The Oscars	Self	1953
The Kennedy Center Honors	Self	1978
Children of the Dust	Gypsy Smith	1995
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	1962
Separate but Equal	Thurgood Marshall	1991
Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	1956
The Philco Television Playhouse	Tommy Tyler	1948
Cinépanorama	Self	1956
The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	1968
Omnibus		1952
Golden Globe Awards	Self - Winner	1944

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