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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 20, 1927
Died
January 6, 2022
Place of Birth
Miami, Florida, USA
Also Known As
- Sir Sidney Poitier
- Сидней Пуатье
- シドニー・ポワティエ
Sidney Poitier
0.9 Popularity
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), 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
6.5
Self (archive footage)
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
2023
9.0
Self (archive footage)
Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte
2023
0.0
Self
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
2022
7.6
Self
Sidney
2022
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Poitier's Walter Lee
2018
7.0
Self (archive footage)
Mr. SOUL!
2018
6.2
Self
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
2017
0.0
Self (archive footage)
The Madding Crowd
2017
6.7
Self
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
2013
10.0
Self
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013
Credits
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
as Self (archive footage)
2023
6.5
Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte
as Self (archive footage)
2023
9.0
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
as Self
2022
0.0
Sidney
as Self
2022
7.6
Poitier's Walter Lee
as Self (archive footage)
2018
0.0
Mr. SOUL!
as Self (archive footage)
2018
7.0
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
as Self
2017
6.2
The Madding Crowd
as Self (archive footage)
2017
0.0
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
as Self
2013
6.7
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
as Self
2013
10.0
Sing Your Song
as Self
2012
6.9
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
as Self
2007
6.8
🎬
Hollywood Legenden
as Self
2004
2.0
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
as Self
2003
5.0
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
as Self
2001
10.0
The Last Brickmaker in America
as Henry Cobb
2001
7.6
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
as Self
2000
0.0
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
2000
6.0
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
as Noah Dearborn
1999
6.1
Free of Eden
as Will Cleamons
1999
10.0
David and Lisa
as Dr. Jack Miller
1998
5.8
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
as Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
1998
7.7
The Jackal
as Carter Preston
1997
6.4
Mandela and de Klerk
as Nelson Mandela
1997
6.5
Afro Promo
as Self (archive footage)
1997
0.0
To Sir, with Love II
as Mark Thackeray
1996
6.4
Children of the Dust
as Gypsy Smith
1995
7.0
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
as Self
1995
8.0
Sneakers
as Crease
1992
6.9
Separate But Equal
as Thurgood Marshall
1991
6.5
Separate but Equal
as Thurgood Marshall
1991
6.0
Little Nikita
as Roy Parmenter
1988
6.1
Shoot to Kill
as Warren Stantin
1988
6.6
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
as Self - Audience Member
1988
7.5
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
as Self
1986
8.0
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
1985
8.0
I Love Quincy
as Self
1984
0.0
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
as Narrator (voice)
1979
7.2
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
1978
7.4
A Piece of the Action
as Manny Durrell
1977
5.6
Let's Do It Again
as Clyde Williams
1975
6.9
The Wilby Conspiracy
as Shack Twala
1975
6.4
Uptown Saturday Night
as Steve Jackson
1974
6.1
A Warm December
as Dr. Matt Younger
1973
6.4
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
6.3
Nationtime
as Self - Narrator
1972
8.0
Buck and the Preacher
as Buck
1972
6.3
The Organization
as Virgil Tibbs
1971
6.2
Brother John
as John Kane
1971
6.2
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
as Virgil Tibbs
1970
5.8
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
1970
7.1
The Lost Man
as Jason Higgs
1969
3.3
🎬
Three Young Americans in Search of Survival
as Himself
1969
0.0
For Love of Ivy
as Jack Parks
1968
5.8
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
as John Prentice
1967
7.6
In the Heat of the Night
as Virgil Tibbs
1967
7.7
To Sir, with Love
as Mark Thackeray
1967
7.5
ABC Stage 67
as Self - Host
1966
6.2
Duel at Diablo
as Toller
1966
6.3
The Strolling '20s
as Self
1966
0.0
The Slender Thread
as Alan Newell
1965
7.1
A Patch of Blue
as Gordon Ralfe
1965
7.6
The Bedford Incident
as Ben Munceford
1965
7.0
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Simon of Cyrene
1965
6.4
A Cinderella Named Elizabeth
as Self
1965
7.0
The Long Ships
as Aly Mansuh
1964
6.0
Lilies of the Field
as Homer Smith
1963
7.2
Pressure Point
as Doctor
1962
6.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self - Taped Tribute
1961
5.4
Paris Blues
as Eddie Cook
1961
6.5
A Raisin in the Sun
as Walter Lee Younger
1961
7.7
All the Young Men
as Sgt. Eddie Towler
1960
6.3
Virgin Island
as Marcus
1959
5.0
Porgy and Bess
as Porgy
1959
6.1
The Defiant Ones
as Noah Cullen
1958
7.1
The Mark of the Hawk
as Obam
1957
3.0
Band of Angels
as Rau-Ru
1957
6.2
🎬
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
1957
7.0
Something of Value
as Kimani Wa Karanja
1957
5.4
Edge of the City
as Tommy Tyler
1957
7.1
Good-bye, My Lady
as Gates Watson
1956
7.7
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
8.0
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
as Tommy Tyler
1955
0.0
Blackboard Jungle
as Gregory W. Miller
1955
6.9
Go Man Go
as Inman Jackson
1954
5.7
🎬
Kraft Television Theatre
1953
0.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Omnibus
1952
6.0
The Red Ball Express
as Robertson
1952
5.8
Cry, the Beloved Country
as Reverend Msimangu
1951
6.1
No Way Out
as Luther Brooks
1950
6.9
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Tommy Tyler
1948
6.3
Sepia Cinderella
as Nightclub Extra (uncredited)
1947
4.8
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2