Sidney Poitier
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday20 February 1927
Died6 January 2022 (age 94)
Place of birthMiami, Florida, USA
Known credits108
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), …
The Resurrection of Christ
2026
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
2025 · Self
Hollywood Black
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024 · Self (archive photos)
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Paul Newman: The Restless
2023 · Self
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Sidney
2022 · Self
Poitier's Walter Lee
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Mr. SOUL!
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
2017 · Self
The Madding Crowd
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
2013 · Self
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013 · Self
Sing Your Song
2012 · Self
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2007 · Self
Hollywood Legenden
2004 · Self
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003 · Self
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
2001 · Self
The Last Brickmaker in America
2001 · Henry Cobb
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
2000 · Self
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
2000
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
1999 · Noah Dearborn
Free of Eden
1999 · Will Cleamons
David and Lisa
1998 · Dr. Jack Miller
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
1998 · Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
The Jackal
1997 · Carter Preston
Mandela and de Klerk
1997 · Nelson Mandela
Afro Promo
1997 · Self (archive footage)
To Sir, with Love II
1996 · Mark Thackeray
Children of the Dust
1995 · Gypsy Smith
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
1995 · Self
Sneakers
1992 · Crease
Separate but Equal
1991 · Thurgood Marshall
Separate but Equal
1991 · Thurgood Marshall
Ghost Dad
1990 · Director
Little Nikita
1988 · Roy Parmenter
Shoot to Kill
1988 · Warren Stantin
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
1988 · Self - Audience Member
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986 · Self
Night of 100 Stars II
1985 · Self
Fast Forward
1985 · Director
I Love Quincy
1984 · Self
Hanky Panky
1982 · Director
Stir Crazy
1980 · Director
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
1979 · Narrator (voice)
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978 · Self
A Piece of the Action
1977 · Manny Durrell
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