Sidney Poitier
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.
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Películas (88)
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
2025 · Self
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024 · Self (archive photos)
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
2023 · Self (archive footage)
La leyenda de Paul Newman
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
2023 · Self (archive footage)
El gran legado de Sidney Poitier
2022 · Self
Poitier's Walter Lee
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Mr. SOUL!
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
2017 · Self
The Madding Crowd
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
2013 · Self
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013 · Self
Sing Your Song
2012 · Self
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2007 · Self
Hollywood Legenden
2004 · Self
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003 · Self
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
2001 · Self
El constructor de sueños
2001 · Henry Cobb
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
2000 · Self
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
2000
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
1999 · Noah Dearborn
Free of Eden
1999 · Will Cleamons
David and Lisa
1998 · Dr. Jack Miller
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
1998 · Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
The Jackal
1997 · Carter Preston
Mandela and de Klerk
1997 · Nelson Mandela
Afro Promo
1997 · Self (archive footage)
To Sir, with Love II
1996 · Mark Thackeray
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
1995 · Self
A Century of Cinema
1994 · Self
Sneakers
1992 · Crease
Separate but Equal
1991 · Thurgood Marshall
Ghost Dad
1990 · Director
Little Nikita
1988 · Roy Parmenter
Shoot to Kill
1988 · Warren Stantin
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
1988 · Self - Audience Member
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986 · Self
Night of 100 Stars II
1985 · Self
Fast Forward
1985 · Director
I Love Quincy
1984 · Self
Hanky Panky
1982 · Director
Stir Crazy
1980 · Director
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
1979 · Narrator (voice)
A Piece of the Action
1977 · Manny Durrell, Director
Let's Do It Again
1975 · Clyde Williams, Director
The Wilby Conspiracy
1975 · Shack Twala
Uptown Saturday Night
1974 · Steve Jackson, Director
A Warm December
1973 · Dr. Matt Younger, Director
Nationtime: Gary
1972 · Self - Narrator
Buck and the Preacher
1972 · Buck, Producer, Director
The Organization
1971 · Virgil Tibbs
Brother John
1971 · John Kane
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
1970 · Virgil Tibbs
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970 · Self (archive footage)
The Lost Man
1969 · Jason Higgs
Three Young Americans in Search of Survival
1969 · Himself
For Love of Ivy
1968 · Jack Parks, Original Story
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967 · John Prentice
In the Heat of the Night
1967 · Det. Virgil Tibbs
To Sir, with Love
1967 · Mark Thackeray
Duel at Diablo
1966 · Toller
The Strolling '20s
1966 · Self
The Slender Thread
1965 · Alan Newell
A Patch of Blue
1965 · Gordon Ralfe
The Bedford Incident
1965 · Ben Munceford
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965 · Simon of Cyrene
A Cinderella Named Elizabeth
1965 · Self
The Long Ships
1964 · Aly Mansuh
Lilies of the Field
1963 · Homer Smith
Pressure Point
1962 · Doctor
Paris Blues
1961 · Eddie Cook
A Raisin in the Sun
1961 · Walter Lee Younger
All the Young Men
1960 · Sgt. Eddie Towler
Virgin Island
1959 · Marcus
Porgy and Bess
1959 · Porgy
The Defiant Ones
1958 · Noah Cullen
The Mark of the Hawk
1957 · Obam
Band of Angels
1957 · Rau-Ru
Something of Value
1957 · Kimani Wa Karanja
Edge of the City
1957 · Tommy Tyler
Good-bye, My Lady
1956 · Gates Watson
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
1955 · Tommy Tyler
Blackboard Jungle
1955 · Gregory W. Miller
Go Man Go
1954 · Inman Jackson
The Red Ball Express
1952 · Robertson
Cry, the Beloved Country
1951 · Reverend Msimangu
No Way Out
1950 · Luther Brooks
Sepia Cinderella
1947 · Nightclub Extra (uncredited)
Series (20)
Hollywood Black
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Children of the Dust
1995 · Gypsy Smith
Separate but Equal
1991 · Thurgood Marshall
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978 · Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973 · Self
Film '72
1971 · Self
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Self - Guest
Omnibus
1967
ABC Stage 67
1966 · Self - Host
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self, Self - Taped Tribute
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957 · Self
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Presenter
Cinépanorama
1956 · Self
Kraft Television Theatre
1953
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Omnibus
1952
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · Tommy Tyler
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Nominee, Self - Presenter