Sidney Poitier
Birthday
1927/02/20
Day of death
2022/01/06 (94 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Miami, Florida, USA
Also know as
Sir Sidney Poitier, Сидней Пуатье, Сидни Пуатье
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
(1966) Duel at Diablo
as Toller
(1992) Sneakers
as Crease
(1967) Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
as John Prentice
(1965) The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Simon of Cyrene
(1959) Porgy and Bess
as Porgy
(1967) In the Heat of the Night
as Virgil Tibbs
(2023) Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte
as (archive footage)
(1997) The Jackal
as Carter Preston
(1958) The Defiant Ones
as Noah Cullen
(1975) The Wilby Conspiracy
as Shack Twala
(1988) Shoot to Kill
as Warren Stantin
(1972) Buck and the Preacher
as Buck
(1955) Blackboard Jungle
as Gregory W. Miller
(1967) To Sir, with Love
as Mark Thackeray
(1965) A Patch of Blue
as Gordon Ralfe
(1961) Paris Blues
as Eddie Cook
(1988) Little Nikita
as Roy Parmenter
(1962) Pressure Point
as Doctor
(1988) Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
as Self - Audience Member
(2004) Hollywood Legenden
as Self
(1970) They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
as Virgil Tibbs
(1957) Edge of the City
as Tommy Tyler
(1950) No Way Out
as Luther Brooks
(1974) Uptown Saturday Night
as Steve Jackson
(1975) Let's Do It Again
as Clyde Williams
(1961) A Raisin in the Sun
as Walter Lee Younger
(1977) A Piece of the Action
as Manny Durrell
(1957) Band of Angels
as Rau-Ru
(2001) Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
as Self
(1964) The Long Ships
as Aly Mansuh
(1963) Lilies of the Field
as Homer Smith
(1965) The Bedford Incident
as Ben Munceford
(1957) Something of Value
as Kimani Wa Karanja
(1973) A Warm December
as Dr. Matt Younger
(1965) The Slender Thread
as Alan Newell
(1968) For Love of Ivy
as Jack Parks
(1957) The Mark of the Hawk
as Obam
(2012) Sing Your Song
as Self
(1971) The Organization
as Virgil Tibbs
(1999) The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
as Noah Dearborn
(2013) Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
as Self
(1998) David and Lisa
as Dr. Jack Miller
(1996) To Sir, with Love II
as Mark Thackeray
(2023) Paul Newman: The Restless
as Self (archive footage)
(1971) Brother John
as John Kane
(1991) Separate But Equal
as Thurgood Marshall
(1965) A Cinderella Named Elizabeth
as Self
(1960) All the Young Men
as Sgt. Eddie Towler
(2023) Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
as Self (archive footage)
(2022) Sidney
as Self
(2001) The Last Brickmaker in America
as Henry Cobb
(1952) The Red Ball Express
as Robertson
(1969) The Lost Man
as Jason Higgs
(1999) Free of Eden
as Will Cleamons
(1951) Cry, the Beloved Country
as Reverend Msimangu
(2013) Moms Mabley
as Self
(2000) Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
as Self
(1984) I Love Quincy
as Self
(1997) Mandela and de Klerk
as Nelson Mandela
(1959) Virgin Island
as Marcus
(1955) A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
as Tommy Tyler
(1970) King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
(1956) Good-bye, My Lady
as Gates Watson
(2003) The Making of ‘Sneakers’
as Self
(2022) Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain
as Self (archive footage)
(1985) Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
(1998) Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
as Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
(1995) Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
as Self
(1997) Afro Promo
as Self (archive footage)
(2007) Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
as Self
(1966) The Strolling '20s
as Self
(2017) Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
as Self
(1986) The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
as Self
(1979) Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
as Narrator (voice)
(1954) Go Man Go
as Inman Jackson
(2014) And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
(2018) Poitier's Walter Lee
as Self (archive footage)
(1972) Nationtime
as Self - Narrator
(2017) The Madding Crowd
as Self (archive footage)
(2018) Mr. SOUL!
as Self (archive footage)
(2017) I Am Not Your Negro
as Various Roles (archive footage)
(2000) Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
as ---
(1969) Three Young Americans in Search of Survival
as Himself
(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
as ---
(1973) The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
(1953) The Oscars
as Self
(1978) The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
(1995) Children of the Dust
as Gypsy Smith
(1962) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
(1991) Separate but Equal
as Thurgood Marshall
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
as Tommy Tyler
(1956) Cinépanorama
as Self
(1968) The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
(1952) Omnibus
as ---
(1944) Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Winner
(1944) Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter