Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier KBE (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. He received 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. Poitier was one of the last major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
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Known for
The Philco Television Playhouse
The Philco Television Playhouse
Tommy Tyler
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
The Oscars
Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
Sneakers
Crease
The Jackal
Carter Preston
In the Heat of the Night
Virgil Tibbs
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Simon of Cyrene
The Mark of the Hawk
Obam
To Sir, with Love
Mark Thackeray
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
John Prentice
Children of the Dust
Gypsy Smith
Duel at Diablo
Toller
Separate but Equal
Thurgood Marshall
Sidney
Self
Shoot to Kill
Warren Stantin
The Defiant Ones
Noah Cullen
A Patch of Blue
Gordon Ralfe
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Self - Audience Member
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self (archive footage)
Blackboard Jungle
Gregory W. Miller
Virgin Island
Marcus
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
Virgil Tibbs
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Self
I Am Not Your Negro
Various Roles (archive footage)
The Organization
Virgil Tibbs
The Bedford Incident
Ben Munceford
The Long Ships
Aly Mansuh
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
A Raisin in the Sun
Walter Lee Younger
Buck and the Preacher
Buck
No Way Out
Luther Brooks
Band of Angels
Rau-Ru
The Wilby Conspiracy
Shack Twala
Lilies of the Field
Homer Smith
Separate But Equal
Thurgood Marshall
Something of Value
Kimani Wa Karanja
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
Let's Do It Again
Clyde Williams
Edge of the City
Tommy Tyler
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Self
Little Nikita
Roy Parmenter
Denzel Washington: A Model American
Self (archive footage)
Paris Blues
Eddie Cook
A Piece of the Action
Manny Durrell
Mandela and de Klerk
Nelson Mandela
Cry, the Beloved Country
Reverend Msimangu
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Self (archive footage)
To Sir, with Love II
Mark Thackeray
Pressure Point
Doctor
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
The Slender Thread
Alan Newell
The Red Ball Express
Robertson
David and Lisa
Dr. Jack Miller
Brother John
John Kane
Porgy and Bess
Porgy
Free of Eden
Will Cleamons
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Self (archive footage)
For Love of Ivy
Jack Parks
The Lost Man
Jason Higgs
Paul Newman: The Restless
Self (archive footage)
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
Self
I Love Quincy
Self
Uptown Saturday Night
Steve Jackson
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
Self
Go Man Go
Inman Jackson
Good-bye, My Lady
Gates Watson
Sing Your Song
Self
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Self
Mr. SOUL!
Self (archive footage)
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
Noah Dearborn
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
Hollywood Legenden
Self
Afro Promo
Self (archive footage)
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
Self
A Warm December
Dr. Matt Younger
The Last Brickmaker in America
Henry Cobb
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
Self
All the Young Men
Sgt. Eddie Towler
The Madding Crowd
Self (archive footage)
Nationtime
Self - Narrator
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
Self
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
Tommy Tyler
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
Narrator (voice)
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
Self
A Cinderella Named Elizabeth
Self
The Strolling '20s
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte
(archive footage)
Poitier's Walter Lee
Self (archive footage)
Three Young Americans in Search of Survival
Himself
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Winner
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter
Omnibus
Cinépanorama
Self