Sidney Poitier

🎂 Data nașterii: 1927-02-20 (Miami, Florida, USA)

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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Sidney Poitier

Filme în care a jucat

Duel at Diablo

Infiltratorii

Ghici cine vine la cină

Viața lui Iisus

Porgy and Bess

În arșița nopții

Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte

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The Defiant Ones

The Wilby Conspiracy

Shoot to Kill

Buck and the Preacher

Blackboard Jungle

To Sir, with Love

A Patch of Blue

Paris Blues

Little Nikita

Pressure Point

Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

Hollywood Legenden

Mi se spune domnul Tibbs!

No Way Out

Edge of the City

Uptown Saturday Night

Let's Do It Again

A Raisin in the Sun

A Piece of the Action

Band of Angels

Quincy Jones: In the Pocket

The Long Ships

Crinii câmpului

The Bedford Incident

Something of Value

A Warm December

The Slender Thread

For Love of Ivy

Sing Your Song

The Mark of the Hawk

Organizația

The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

David and Lisa

To Sir, with Love II

Brother John

Separate but Equal

A Cinderella Named Elizabeth

All the Young Men

Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback

Sidney

The Last Brickmaker in America

The Red Ball Express

The Lost Man

Free of Eden

Cry, the Beloved Country

Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley

Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters

I Love Quincy

Mandela and de Klerk

Virgin Island

A Man Is Ten Feet Tall

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

Good-bye, My Lady

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

Night of 100 Stars II

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

Afro Promo

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

The Strolling '20s

Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist

Go Man Go

Poitier's Walter Lee

Nationtime: Gary

The Madding Crowd

Mr. SOUL!

Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light