Sidney Poitier
Born:2/20/1927•Died:1/6/2022
Place of Birth: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 was the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. He received 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. Poitier was one of the last major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sidney Poitier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
20236.4
Paul Newman: The Restless
20238.1
Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte
20239.0
Denzel Washington: A Model American
20227.8
Sidney
20227.5
Poitier's Walter Lee
20180.0
Mr. SOUL!
20187.0
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
20176.2
I Am Not Your Negro
20177.7
The Madding Crowd
20170.0
And the Oscar Goes To...
20147.0
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
20136.7
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
201310.0
Sing Your Song
20126.9
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
20076.8
Hollywood Legenden
20042.0
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
20030.0
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
200110.0
The Last Brickmaker in America
20017.0
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
20000.0
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
20006.0
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
19995.8
Free of Eden
199910.0
David and Lisa
19985.6
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
19987.7
The Jackal
19976.4
Mandela and de Klerk
19976.5
Afro Promo
19970.0
To Sir, with Love II
19966.4
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
19958.0
Sneakers
19926.9
Separate But Equal
19916.5
Little Nikita
19886.0
Shoot to Kill
19886.6
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
19887.5
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
19868.0
Night of 100 Stars II
19858.0
I Love Quincy
19840.0
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
19797.2
A Piece of the Action
19775.6
Let's Do It Again
19756.9
The Wilby Conspiracy
19756.5
Uptown Saturday Night
19746.1
A Warm December
19736.4
Nationtime
19720.0
Buck and the Preacher
19726.2
The Organization
19715.9
Brother John
19716.2
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
19705.8
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
19707.3
The Lost Man
19694.0
Three Young Americans in Search of Survival
19690.0
For Love of Ivy
19685.9
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
19677.6
In the Heat of the Night
19677.6
To Sir, with Love
19677.5
Duel at Diablo
19666.3
The Strolling '20s
19660.0
The Slender Thread
19657.1
A Patch of Blue
19657.6
The Bedford Incident
19656.9
The Greatest Story Ever Told
19656.4
A Cinderella Named Elizabeth
19657.0
The Long Ships
19646.1
Lilies of the Field
19637.2
Pressure Point
19626.6
Paris Blues
19616.5
A Raisin in the Sun
19617.7
All the Young Men
19606.3
Virgin Island
19595.0
Porgy and Bess
19596.1
The Defiant Ones
19587.1
The Mark of the Hawk
19573.0
Band of Angels
19576.2
Something of Value
19575.5
Edge of the City
19577.1
Good-bye, My Lady
19567.7
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
19550.0
Blackboard Jungle
19556.9
Go Man Go
19545.7
The Red Ball Express
19525.8
Cry, the Beloved Country
19516.1
No Way Out
19506.9