Sidney Poitier
Actor
Born February 20, 1927 in Miami, Florida, USA
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.
Filmography
The Resurrection of Christ
Hollywood Black
Self (archive footage)
Remembering Gene Wilder
Self (archive photos)
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Self (archive footage)
Paul Newman: The Restless
Self
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
Self
Sidney
Self
Poitier's Walter Lee
Self (archive footage)
Mr. SOUL!
Self (archive footage)
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
Self
The Madding Crowd
Self (archive footage)
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
Self
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Self
Sing Your Song
Self
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Self
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
Self
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
Self
The Last Brickmaker in America
Henry Cobb
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
Self
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
Noah Dearborn
Free of Eden
Will Cleamons
David and Lisa
Dr. Jack Miller
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
The Jackal
Carter Preston
Mandela and de Klerk
Nelson Mandela
Afro Promo
Self (archive footage)
To Sir, with Love II
Mark Thackeray
Children of the Dust
Gypsy Smith
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
Self
100 Years at the Movies
Self (archive footage)
Sneakers
Crease
Separate but Equal
Thurgood Marshall
Separate but Equal
Thurgood Marshall
Ghost Dad
Little Nikita
Roy Parmenter
Shoot to Kill
Warren Stantin
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Self - Audience Member
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Self
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
Fast Forward
I Love Quincy
Self
Hanky Panky
Stir Crazy
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
Narrator (voice)
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
A Piece of the Action
Manny Durrell
Let's Do It Again
Clyde Williams
The Wilby Conspiracy
Shack Twala
Uptown Saturday Night
Steve Jackson
A Warm December
Dr. Matt Younger
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
Nationtime: Gary
Self - Narrator
Buck and the Preacher
Buck
The Organization
Virgil Tibbs
Brother John
John Kane
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
Virgil Tibbs
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Self (archive footage)
The Lost Man
Jason Higgs
For Love of Ivy
Jack Parks
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
John Prentice
Omnibus
In the Heat of the Night
Virgil Tibbs
To Sir, with Love
Mark Thackeray
ABC Stage 67
Self - Host
Duel at Diablo
Toller
The Strolling '20s
Self
The Slender Thread
Alan Newell
A Patch of Blue
Gordon Ralfe
The Bedford Incident
Ben Munceford
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Simon of Cyrene
A Cinderella Named Elizabeth
Self
The Long Ships
Aly Mansuh
Lilies of the Field
Homer Smith
Pressure Point
Doctor
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
Paris Blues
Eddie Cook
A Raisin in the Sun
Walter Lee Younger
All the Young Men
Sgt. Eddie Towler
Virgin Island
Marcus
Porgy and Bess
Porgy
The Defiant Ones
Noah Cullen
The Mark of the Hawk
Obam
Band of Angels
Rau-Ru
Something of Value
Kimani Wa Karanja
Edge of the City
Tommy Tyler
Good-bye, My Lady
Gates Watson
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
Cinépanorama
Self
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
Tommy Tyler
Blackboard Jungle
Gregory W. Miller
Go Man Go
Inman Jackson
The Oscars
Self
Omnibus
The Red Ball Express
Robertson
Cry, the Beloved Country
Reverend Msimangu
No Way Out
Luther Brooks
The Philco Television Playhouse
Sepia Cinderella
Nightclub Extra (uncredited)
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee