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Sidney Poitier
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.
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As actor
The Resurrection of Christ
Remembering Gene Wilder
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Paul Newman: The Restless
Sidney
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
Poitier's Walter Lee
Mr. SOUL!
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
The Madding Crowd
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
Sing Your Song
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Hollywood Legenden
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
The Last Brickmaker in America
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
Free of Eden
David and Lisa
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
The Jackal
Mandela and de Klerk
Afro Promo
To Sir, with Love II
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick