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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 Wikipedia article Sidney Poitier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Sneakers
as Crease
The Jackal
as Carter Preston
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Simon of Cyrene
In the Heat of the Night
as Virgil Tibbs
To Sir, with Love
as Mark Thackeray
Blackboard Jungle
as Gregory W. Miller
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
as John Prentice
Duel at Diablo
as Toller
Shoot to Kill
as Warren Stantin
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
