Sidney Poitier
Acting
Born February 20, 1927 · 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.
Directed (9)
Acting (81)
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
2023
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
2023
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
2022
Sidney
2022
Poitier's Walter Lee
2018
Mr. SOUL!
2018
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
2017
The Madding Crowd
2017
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
2013
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013
Sing Your Song
2012
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2007
Hollywood Legenden
2004
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
2001
The Last Brickmaker in America
2001
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
2000
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
2000
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
1999
Free of Eden
1999
David and Lisa
1998
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
1998
The Jackal
1997
Mandela and de Klerk
1997
Afro Promo
1997
To Sir, with Love II
1996
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
1995
Sneakers
1992
Separate But Equal
1991
Little Nikita
1988
Shoot to Kill
1988
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
1988
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
I Love Quincy
1984
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
1979
A Piece of the Action
1977
Let's Do It Again
1975
The Wilby Conspiracy
1975
Uptown Saturday Night
1974
A Warm December
1973
Nationtime
1972
Buck and the Preacher
1972
The Organization
1971
Brother John
1971
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
1970
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
The Lost Man
1969
Three Young Americans in Search of Survival
1969
For Love of Ivy
1968
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967
In the Heat of the Night
1967
To Sir, with Love
1967
Duel at Diablo
1966
The Strolling '20s
1966
The Slender Thread
1965
A Patch of Blue
1965
The Bedford Incident
1965
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
A Cinderella Named Elizabeth
1965
The Long Ships
1964
Lilies of the Field
1963
Pressure Point
1962
Paris Blues
1961
A Raisin in the Sun
1961
All the Young Men
1960
Virgin Island
1959
Porgy and Bess
1959
The Defiant Ones
1958
The Mark of the Hawk
1957
Band of Angels
1957
Something of Value
1957
Edge of the City
1957
Good-bye, My Lady
1956
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
1955
Blackboard Jungle
1955
Go Man Go
1954
The Red Ball Express
1952
Cry, the Beloved Country
1951
No Way Out
1950
Sepia Cinderella
1947