Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier KBE (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he became the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Lilies of the Field. Other accolades include 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. Major films featuring Poitier in a starring role include Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Defiant Ones (1958), To Sir, with Love (1967), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), In the Heat of the Night (1967), Sneakers (1992), and The Jackal (1997). Later in his career, he turned to directing with features such as Buck and the Preacher (1972), Uptown Saturday Night (1974), Stir Crazy (1980), and Ghost Dad (1990). At the time of his death, Poitier was one of the last major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
Known for
Credits
Sneakers (1992)
as Crease
The Jackal (1997)
as Carter Preston
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
as Virgil Tibbs
Shoot to Kill (1988)
as Warren Stantin
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
as Simon of Cyrene
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)
as Self (archive footage)
To Sir, with Love (1967)
as Mark Thackeray
The Lost Man (1969)
as Jason Higgs
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
as John Prentice
Paris Blues (1961)
as Eddie Cook
Duel at Diablo (1966)
as Toller
No Way Out (1950)
as Luther Brooks
A Patch of Blue (1965)
as Gordon Ralfe
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
as Gregory W. Miller
The Defiant Ones (1958)
as Noah Cullen
The Organization (1971)
as Virgil Tibbs
The Bedford Incident (1965)
as Ben Munceford
To Sir, with Love II (1996)
as Mark Thackeray
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970)
as Virgil Tibbs
Little Nikita (1988)
as Roy Parmenter
Buck and the Preacher (1972)
as Buck
The Long Ships (1964)
as Aly Mansuh
Let's Do It Again (1975)
as Clyde Williams
Lilies of the Field (1963)
as Homer Smith
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
as Steve Jackson
David and Lisa (1998)
as Dr. Jack Miller
Remembering Gene Wilder (2024)
as Self (archive photos)
The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
as Shack Twala
Nationtime (1972)
as Self - Narrator
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
as Walter Lee Younger
Band of Angels (1957)
as Rau-Ru
Night of 100 Stars II (1985)
as Self
Porgy and Bess (1959)
as Porgy
Mr. SOUL! (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
The Resurrection of Christ (2026)
Actor
The Mark of the Hawk (1957)
as Obam
Sidney (2022)
as Self
Afro Promo (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night (1988)
as Self - Audience Member
The Slender Thread (1965)
as Alan Newell
Free of Eden (1999)
as Will Cleamons
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light (2000)
Actor
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999)
as Noah Dearborn
Pressure Point (1962)
as Doctor
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007)
as Self
A Piece of the Action (1977)
as Manny Durrell
Something of Value (1957)
as Kimani Wa Karanja
Brother John (1971)
as John Kane
The Red Ball Express (1952)
as Robertson
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1995)
as Self
Virgin Island (1959)
as Marcus
A Warm December (1973)
as Dr. Matt Younger
The Last Brickmaker in America (2001)
as Henry Cobb
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (1986)
as Self
The Strolling '20s (1966)
as Self
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Edge of the City (1957)
as Tommy Tyler
Separate But Equal (1991)
as Thurgood Marshall
All the Young Men (1960)
as Sgt. Eddie Towler
Hollywood Legenden (2004)
as Self
Mandela and de Klerk (1997)
as Nelson Mandela
The Making of ‘Sneakers’ (2003)
as Self
Good-bye, My Lady (1956)
as Gates Watson
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist (1998)
as Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
For Love of Ivy (1968)
as Jack Parks
I Love Quincy (1984)
as Self
Go Man Go (1954)
as Inman Jackson
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington (2013)
as Self
Sing Your Song (2012)
as Self
Cry, the Beloved Country (1951)
as Reverend Msimangu
Paul Newman: The Restless (2023)
as Self
Sepia Cinderella (1947)
as Nightclub Extra (uncredited)
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket (2001)
as Self
The Madding Crowd (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley (2013)
as Self
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart (2017)
as Self
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall (1955)
as Tommy Tyler
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story (2022)
as Self
Poitier's Walter Lee (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
Three Young Americans in Search of Survival (1969)
as Himself
A Cinderella Named Elizabeth (1965)
as Self
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979)
as Narrator (voice)
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters (2000)
as Self