As Actor
Sidney
2022
7.7
Sidney Poitier
Acting
Birth date
February 20, 1927
Birth place
Miami, Florida, USA
Death date
January 6, 2022
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.
Featured in
As Actor
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
2017
6.2
As Actor
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013
10.0
As Actor
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
2001
10.0
As Actor
The Last Brickmaker in America
2001
7.6
As Actor
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
1999
5.8
As Actor
Free of Eden
1999
10.0
As Actor
David and Lisa
1998
5.5
As Actor
The Jackal
1997
6.4
As Actor
Mandela and de Klerk
1997
6.5
As Actor
To Sir, with Love II
1996
6.4
As Actor
Sneakers
1992
6.9
As Actor
Separate But Equal
1991
6.5
As Director
Ghost Dad
1990
5.1
As Actor
Little Nikita
1988
6.1
As Actor
Shoot to Kill
1988
6.6
As Director
Fast Forward
1985
5.5
As Director
Hanky Panky
1982
5.3
As Director
Stir Crazy
1980
6.5
As Actor, As Director
Let's Do It Again
1975
6.9