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