Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier

Birthday: 1927-02-20

Deathday: 2022-01-06

Place of birth: Miami, Florida, USA

Also known as: Sir Sidney Poitier, Сидней Пуатье, シドニー・ポワティエ

imdb_id: nm0001627

Biography:

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.

Played in movies:

Free of Eden

Score: 10.0

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

Score: 10.0

Quincy Jones: In the Pocket

Score: 10.0

Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte

Score: 9.0

Nationtime

Score: 8.0

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

Score: 8.0

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

Score: 8.0

Night of 100 Stars II

Score: 8.0

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

Score: 7.7

Good-bye, My Lady

Score: 7.7

A Raisin in the Sun

Score: 7.7

In the Heat of the Night

Score: 7.7

The Last Brickmaker in America

Score: 7.6

Sidney

Score: 7.6

A Patch of Blue

Score: 7.6

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Score: 7.6

Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

Score: 7.5

To Sir, with Love

Score: 7.5

Lilies of the Field

Score: 7.2

Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist

Score: 7.2

Edge of the City

Score: 7.1

The Slender Thread

Score: 7.1

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

Score: 7.1

The Defiant Ones

Score: 7.1

Mr. SOUL!

Score: 7.0

A Cinderella Named Elizabeth

Score: 7.0

No Way Out

Score: 6.9

The Bedford Incident

Score: 6.9

Sing Your Song

Score: 6.9

Let's Do It Again

Score: 6.9

Sneakers

Score: 6.9

Blackboard Jungle

Score: 6.9

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

Score: 6.8

Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley

Score: 6.7

Pressure Point

Score: 6.6

Shoot to Kill

Score: 6.6

Mandela and de Klerk

Score: 6.5

Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback

Score: 6.5

Separate But Equal

Score: 6.5

Paris Blues

Score: 6.5

To Sir, with Love II

Score: 6.4

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Score: 6.4

A Warm December

Score: 6.4

The Jackal

Score: 6.4

The Wilby Conspiracy

Score: 6.4

All the Young Men

Score: 6.3

Duel at Diablo

Score: 6.3

Buck and the Preacher

Score: 6.3

Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

Score: 6.2

Brother John

Score: 6.2

Band of Angels

Score: 6.2

The Long Ships

Score: 6.1

Cry, the Beloved Country

Score: 6.1

Uptown Saturday Night

Score: 6.1

Porgy and Bess

Score: 6.1

Little Nikita

Score: 6.1

Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light

Score: 6.0

The Organization

Score: 6.0

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

Score: 5.8

For Love of Ivy

Score: 5.8

The Red Ball Express

Score: 5.8

The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn

Score: 5.8

Go Man Go

Score: 5.7

A Piece of the Action

Score: 5.6

David and Lisa

Score: 5.5

Something of Value

Score: 5.5

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

Score: 5.0

Virgin Island

Score: 5.0

Sepia Cinderella

Score: 4.8

The Lost Man

Score: 4.0

The Mark of the Hawk

Score: 3.0

Hollywood Legenden

Score: 2.0

A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story

Score: 0.0

Three Young Americans in Search of Survival

Score: 0.0

The Madding Crowd

Score: 0.0

Poitier's Walter Lee

Score: 0.0

The Strolling '20s

Score: 0.0

Afro Promo

Score: 0.0

A Man Is Ten Feet Tall

Score: 0.0

I Love Quincy

Score: 0.0

Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Cinépanorama

Score: 8.0

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Score: 7.5

The Kennedy Center Honors

Score: 7.4

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Score: 7.0

Children of the Dust

Score: 7.0

The Oscars

Score: 7.0

The Dick Cavett Show

Score: 6.8

The Philco Television Playhouse

Score: 6.3

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Score: 6.3

The Philco Television Playhouse

Score: 6.3

The Merv Griffin Show

Score: 6.2

ABC Stage 67

Score: 6.2

Omnibus

Score: 6.0

Separate but Equal

Score: 6.0

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

The Mike Douglas Show

Score: 5.4

The Mike Douglas Show

Score: 5.4

Kraft Television Theatre

Score: 0.0