Sidney Poitier

Acting · 1.6 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022
From: Miami, Florida, USA

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.

Works

84 films

The Jackal

19976.4

Sneakers

19926.9

In the Heat of the Night

19677.7

The Greatest Story Ever Told

19656.4

To Sir, with Love

19677.5

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

19677.6

Sidney

20227.0

Shoot to Kill

19886.6

Paris Blues

19616.5

The Wilby Conspiracy

19756.4

Blackboard Jungle

19556.9

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

19705.9

The Defiant Ones

19587.1

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

20076.8

The Bedford Incident

19657.0

The Resurrection of Christ

2026

Duel at Diablo

19666.4

A Patch of Blue

19657.6

A Raisin in the Sun

19617.7

Little Nikita

19886.1

Nationtime: Gary

19728.0

Buck and the Preacher

19726.3

No Way Out

19506.9

Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

19887.6

Night of 100 Stars II

19856.8

David and Lisa

19986.0

Paul Newman: The Restless

20237.7

The Organization

19716.3

The Long Ships

19646.1

Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light

20006.7

Lilies of the Field

19637.2

Mr. SOUL!

20187.0

Free of Eden

19999.7

The Slender Thread

19657.1

To Sir, with Love II

19966.4

Uptown Saturday Night

19746.2

Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback

20236.5

Band of Angels

19576.3

Let's Do It Again

19757.0

Edge of the City

19577.2

A Piece of the Action

19775.8

Remembering Gene Wilder

20247.2

The Red Ball Express

19525.9

The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn

19996.2

Sepia Cinderella

19475.2

The Last Brickmaker in America

20018.0

Porgy and Bess

19596.3

The Lost Man

19694.3

The Madding Crowd

2017

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

19957.8

Pressure Point

19626.5

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

20037.5

Separate but Equal

19916.5

Brother John

19716.5

Mandela and de Klerk

19977.0

Good-bye, My Lady

19567.8

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

19868.3

Something of Value

19575.5

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

19707.3

I Love Quincy

1984

Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist

19797.3

Sing Your Song

20126.9

A Warm December

19736.5

Cry, the Beloved Country

19516.3

Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley

20136.7

Three Young Americans in Search of Survival

1969

Hollywood Legenden

20044.5

Go Man Go

19545.4

Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters

2000

Virgin Island

19596.3

The Mark of the Hawk

19573.4

All the Young Men

19606.7

For Love of Ivy

19686.2

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

201310.0

Quincy Jones: In the Pocket

200110.0

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

19988.3

Afro Promo

19978.0

A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story

2022

Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood

20233.0

The Strolling '20s

1966

A Cinderella Named Elizabeth

19656.5

A Man Is Ten Feet Tall

1955

Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

20176.2

Poitier's Walter Lee

2018