Sidney Poitier
Actor/Actriz
85
Movies
17
TV Shows
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.
As Actor/Actress
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
The Philco Television Playhouse
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Omnibus
Omnibus
The Oscars
Self
Cinépanorama
Self
Los fisgones
Crease
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
El Chacal
Carter Preston
ABC Stage 67
Self - Host
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
In the Heat of the Night
Virgil Tibbs
Hollywood Black
Self (archive footage)
Al maestro con cariño
Mark Thackeray
Nationtime
Self - Narrator
La historia más grande jamás contada
Simon of Cyrene
Little Nikita
Roy Parmenter
Children of the Dust
Gypsy Smith
Semilla de maldad
Gregory W. Miller
Dispara a matar
Warren Stantin
Adivina quien viene a cenar
John Prentice
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
El gran legado de Sidney Poitier
Self
Fuga en cadenas
Noah Cullen
A Raisin in the Sun
Walter Lee Younger