Actor

Sidney Poitier

1927Miami, Florida, USA83 Movies14 TV Shows

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.

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Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback

Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood

A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story

Sidney

Poitier's Walter Lee

Mr. SOUL!

Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

The Madding Crowd

Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

Sing Your Song

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

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

Sneakers

Separate But Equal

Ghost Dad

Little Nikita

Shoot to Kill

Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

Night of 100 Stars II

Fast Forward

I Love Quincy

Hanky Panky

Stir Crazy

Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist

A Piece of the Action

Let's Do It Again

The Wilby Conspiracy

Uptown Saturday Night

A Warm December

Nationtime

Buck and the Preacher

The Organization

Brother John

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

The Lost Man

For Love of Ivy

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

In the Heat of the Night

To Sir, with Love

Duel at Diablo

The Strolling '20s

The Slender Thread

A Patch of Blue

The Bedford Incident

The Greatest Story Ever Told

A Cinderella Named Elizabeth

The Long Ships

Lilies of the Field

Pressure Point

Paris Blues

A Raisin in the Sun

All the Young Men

Virgin Island

Porgy and Bess

The Defiant Ones

The Mark of the Hawk

Band of Angels

Something of Value

Edge of the City

Good-bye, My Lady

A Man Is Ten Feet Tall

Blackboard Jungle