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

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

19677.6

To Sir, with Love

19677.5

The Greatest Story Ever Told

19656.4

Sidney

20227.0

Shoot to Kill

19886.6

Paris Blues

19616.5

Blackboard Jungle

19556.9

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

19705.9

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

20076.8

The Wilby Conspiracy

19756.4

The Defiant Ones

19587.1

Uptown Saturday Night

19746.2

Duel at Diablo

19666.4

The Organization

19716.3

The Bedford Incident

19657.0

Buck and the Preacher

19726.3

A Patch of Blue

19657.6

Little Nikita

19886.1

Nationtime: Gary

19728.0

No Way Out

19506.9

A Raisin in the Sun

19617.7

Lilies of the Field

19637.2

Paul Newman: The Restless

20237.7

Night of 100 Stars II

19856.8

The Long Ships

19646.1

The Resurrection of Christ

2026

Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

19887.6

Mr. SOUL!

20187.0

Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light

20006.7

The Slender Thread

19657.1

To Sir, with Love II

19966.4

A Piece of the Action

19775.8

David and Lisa

19986.0

Edge of the City

19577.2

Band of Angels

19576.3

The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn

19996.2

Let's Do It Again

19757.0

Remembering Gene Wilder

20247.2

The Red Ball Express

19525.9

Sepia Cinderella

19475.2

Something of Value

19575.5

Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback

20236.5

Sing Your Song

20126.9

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

20037.5

The Last Brickmaker in America

20018.0

Pressure Point

19626.5

Porgy and Bess

19596.3

The Lost Man

19694.3

Good-bye, My Lady

19567.8

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

19707.3

Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist

19797.3

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

19868.3

Mandela and de Klerk

19977.0

The Madding Crowd

2017

Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters

2000

Free of Eden

19999.7

Three Young Americans in Search of Survival

1969

Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley

20136.7

Separate but Equal

19916.5

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

19957.8

A Warm December

19736.5

Hollywood Legenden

20044.5

Brother John

19716.5

I Love Quincy

1984

Go Man Go

19545.4

Cry, the Beloved Country

19516.3

The Mark of the Hawk

19573.4

All the Young Men

19606.7

For Love of Ivy

19686.2

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

19988.3

Virgin Island

19596.3

Afro Promo

19978.0

Quincy Jones: In the Pocket

200110.0

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

201310.0

Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood

20233.0

A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story

2022

A Man Is Ten Feet Tall

1955

Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

20176.2

The Strolling '20s

1966

Poitier's Walter Lee

2018

A Cinderella Named Elizabeth

19656.5