Personal Info
Known Credits
84
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1927-02-20 (98 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Miami, Florida, USA
Also Known For
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Sidney Poitier
Biography
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. Description above from the Wik ...
Known For
Acting
2024 --
Nickel Boys
| Self (archive footage)
2023 --
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
| Self (archive footage)
2023 --
Paul Newman: The Restless
| Self (archive footage)
2023 --
Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte
| (archive footage)
2022 --
Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain
| Self (archive footage)
2022 --
Sidney
| Self
2018 --
Poitier's Walter Lee
| Self (archive footage)
2018 --
Mr. SOUL!
| Self (archive footage)
2017 --
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
| Self
2017 --
I Am Not Your Negro
| Various Roles (archive footage)
2017 --
The Madding Crowd
| Self (archive footage)
2014 --
And the Oscar Goes To...
| Self (archive footage)
2013 --
Moms Mabley
| Self
2013 --
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
| Self
2012 --
Sing Your Song
| Self
2007 --
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
| Self
2004 --
Hollywood Legenden
| Self
2003 --
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
| Self
2001 --
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
| Self
2001 --
The Last Brickmaker in America
| Henry Cobb
2000 --
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
| Self
2000 --
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
|
1999 --
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
| Noah Dearborn
1999 --
Free of Eden
| Will Cleamons
1998 --
David and Lisa
| Dr. Jack Miller
1998 --
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
| Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
1997 --
The Jackal
| Carter Preston
1997 --
Mandela and de Klerk
| Nelson Mandela
1997 --
Afro Promo
| Self (archive footage)
1996 --
To Sir, with Love II
| Mark Thackeray
1995 --
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
| Self
1992 --
Sneakers
| Crease
1991 --
Separate But Equal
| Thurgood Marshall
1988 --
Little Nikita
| Roy Parmenter
1988 --
Shoot to Kill
| Warren Stantin
1988 --
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
| Self - Audience Member
1986 --
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
| Self
1985 --
Night of 100 Stars II
| Self
1984 --
I Love Quincy
| Self
1979 --
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
| Narrator (voice)
1977 --
A Piece of the Action
| Manny Durrell
1975 --
Let's Do It Again
| Clyde Williams
1975 --
The Wilby Conspiracy
| Shack Twala
1974 --
Uptown Saturday Night
| Steve Jackson
1973 --
A Warm December
| Dr. Matt Younger
1972 --
Nationtime
| Self - Narrator
1972 --
Buck and the Preacher
| Buck
1971 --
The Organization
| Virgil Tibbs
1971 --
Brother John
| John Kane
1970 --
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
| Virgil Tibbs
1970 --
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
| Self (archive footage)
1969 --
The Lost Man
| Jason Higgs
1969 --
Three Young Americans in Search of Survival
| Himself
1968 --
For Love of Ivy
| Jack Parks
1967 --
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
| John Prentice
1967 --
In the Heat of the Night
| Virgil Tibbs
1967 --
To Sir, with Love
| Mark Thackeray
1966 --
Duel at Diablo
| Toller
1966 --
The Strolling '20s
| Self
1965 --
The Slender Thread
| Alan Newell
1965 --
A Patch of Blue
| Gordon Ralfe
1965 --
The Bedford Incident
| Ben Munceford
1965 --
The Greatest Story Ever Told
| Simon of Cyrene
1965 --
A Cinderella Named Elizabeth
| Self
1964 --
The Long Ships
| Aly Mansuh
1963 --
Lilies of the Field
| Homer Smith
1962 --
Pressure Point
| Doctor
1961 --
Paris Blues
| Eddie Cook
1961 --
A Raisin in the Sun
| Walter Lee Younger
1960 --
All the Young Men
| Sgt. Eddie Towler
1959 --
Virgin Island
| Marcus
1959 --
Porgy and Bess
| Porgy
1958 --
The Defiant Ones
| Noah Cullen
1957 --
The Mark of the Hawk
| Obam
1957 --
Band of Angels
| Rau-Ru
1957 --
Something of Value
| Kimani Wa Karanja
1957 --
Edge of the City
| Tommy Tyler
1956 --
Good-bye, My Lady
| Gates Watson
1955 --
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
| Tommy Tyler
1955 --
Blackboard Jungle
| Gregory W. Miller
1954 --
Go Man Go
| Inman Jackson
1952 --
The Red Ball Express
| Robertson
1951 --
Cry, the Beloved Country
| Reverend Msimangu
1950 --
No Way Out
| Dr. Luther Brooks