People
Sidney Poitier
- Name: Sidney Poitier
- Birthday: 1927-02-20
- Also known as: Sir Sidney Poitier,Сидней Пуатье,Сидни Пуатье
- Place of birth: Miami, Florida, USA
- Popularity: 7.232
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.
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| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback as Self (archive footage) | 2023-07-30 |
| Paul Newman: The Restless as Self (archive footage) | 2023-06-11 |
| Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte as (archive footage) | 2023-01-23 |
| Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain as Self (archive footage) | 2022-10-15 |
| Sidney as Self | 2022-09-10 |
| Poitier's Walter Lee as Self (archive footage) | 2018-09-25 |
| Mr. SOUL! as Self (archive footage) | 2018-04-27 |
| Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart as Self | 2017-10-14 |
| I Am Not Your Negro as Various Roles (archive footage) | 2017-02-03 |
| The Madding Crowd as Self (archive footage) | 2017-02-01 |
| And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
| Moms Mabley as Self | 2013-04-20 |
| Martin Luther King and the March on Washington as Self | 2013-01-01 |
| Sing Your Song as Self | 2012-01-13 |
| Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project as Self | 2007-10-13 |
| Hollywood Legenden as Self | 2004-01-01 |
| The Making of ‘Sneakers’ as Self | 2003-06-03 |
| Quincy Jones: In the Pocket as Self | 2001-11-18 |
| The Last Brickmaker in America as Henry Cobb | 2001-09-23 |
| Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters as Self | 2000-06-29 |
| Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light | 2000-02-02 |
| The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn as Noah Dearborn | 1999-05-09 |
| Free of Eden as Will Cleamons | 1999-02-21 |
| David and Lisa as Dr. Jack Miller | 1998-11-01 |
| Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist as Reverend Msimangu (archive footage) | 1998-01-01 |
| The Jackal as Carter Preston | 1997-11-14 |
| Mandela and de Klerk as Nelson Mandela | 1997-02-16 |
| Afro Promo as Self (archive footage) | 1997-01-31 |
| To Sir, with Love II as Mark Thackeray | 1996-04-07 |
| Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick as Self | 1995-01-01 |
| Sneakers as Crease | 1992-09-09 |
| Separate But Equal as Thurgood Marshall | 1991-04-07 |
| Little Nikita as Roy Parmenter | 1988-03-17 |
| Shoot to Kill as Warren Stantin | 1988-02-12 |
| Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night as Self - Audience Member | 1988-01-03 |
| The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn as Self | 1986-03-09 |
| Night of 100 Stars II as Self | 1985-03-10 |
| I Love Quincy as Self | 1984-03-23 |
| Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist as Narrator (voice) | 1979-10-29 |
| A Piece of the Action as Manny Durrell | 1977-10-07 |
| Let's Do It Again as Clyde Williams | 1975-10-11 |
| The Wilby Conspiracy as Shack Twala | 1975-02-01 |
| Uptown Saturday Night as Steve Jackson | 1974-07-26 |
| A Warm December as Dr. Matt Younger | 1973-05-23 |
| Nationtime as Self - Narrator | 1972-11-01 |
| Buck and the Preacher as Buck | 1972-03-17 |
| The Organization as Virgil Tibbs | 1971-10-20 |
| Brother John as John Kane | 1971-08-15 |
| They Call Me Mister Tibbs! as Virgil Tibbs | 1970-07-10 |
| King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis as Self (archive footage) | 1970-03-24 |
| The Lost Man as Jason Higgs | 1969-07-11 |
| For Love of Ivy as Jack Parks | 1968-07-17 |
| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as John Prentice | 1967-12-11 |
| In the Heat of the Night as Virgil Tibbs | 1967-08-02 |
| To Sir, with Love as Mark Thackeray | 1967-06-14 |
| Duel at Diablo as Toller | 1966-06-15 |
| The Strolling '20s as Self | 1966-02-04 |
| The Slender Thread as Alan Newell | 1965-12-15 |
| A Patch of Blue as Gordon Ralfe | 1965-12-10 |
| The Bedford Incident as Ben Munceford | 1965-10-11 |
| The Greatest Story Ever Told as Simon of Cyrene | 1965-04-09 |
| A Cinderella Named Elizabeth as Self | 1965-01-01 |
| The Long Ships as Aly Mansuh | 1964-04-22 |
| Lilies of the Field as Homer Smith | 1963-06-04 |
| Pressure Point as Doctor | 1962-10-10 |
| Paris Blues as Eddie Cook | 1961-09-27 |
| A Raisin in the Sun as Walter Lee Younger | 1961-05-28 |
| All the Young Men as Sgt. Eddie Towler | 1960-08-26 |
| Virgin Island as Marcus | 1959-08-07 |
| Porgy and Bess as Porgy | 1959-06-24 |
| The Defiant Ones as Noah Cullen | 1958-08-14 |
| The Mark of the Hawk as Obam | 1957-12-01 |
| Band of Angels as Rau-Ru | 1957-08-03 |
| Something of Value as Kimani Wa Karanja | 1957-05-08 |
| Edge of the City as Tommy Tyler | 1957-01-04 |
| Good-bye, My Lady as Gates Watson | 1956-05-12 |
| A Man Is Ten Feet Tall as Tommy Tyler | 1955-10-02 |
| Blackboard Jungle as Gregory W. Miller | 1955-03-25 |
| Go Man Go as Inman Jackson | 1954-01-27 |
| The Red Ball Express as Robertson | 1952-05-29 |
| Cry, the Beloved Country as Reverend Msimangu | 1951-11-16 |
| No Way Out as Dr. Luther Brooks | 1950-08-16 |
