Sidney Poitier
Gender: Male
Born: 20th February 1927 (currently 85 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Philco Television Playhouse
Movies: Blackboard Jungle, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night, Little Nikita, Porgy and Bess, Sneakers, The Defiant Ones, The Jackal, They call me MISTER Tibbs, To Sir, with Love, To Sir, with Love II, Uptown Saturday Night, Something Of Value, A Raisin in the Sun, All the Young Men, No Way Out, Let's Do It Again, For Love of Ivy, The Bedford Incident, Band of Angels, Shoot to Kill, Duel at Diablo, The Wilby Conspiracy, The Long Ships, Lilies of the Field, A Patch of Blue, A Piece of the Action, Mandela and de Klerk, Children of the Dust, Buck and the Preacher, Edge of the City, The Organization, Go, Man, Go!, Brother John, The Slender Thread, Pressure Point, The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn, Good-bye, My Lady, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Separate but Equal, The Last Brickmaker In America, A Warm December, , The Lost Man, Sepia Cinderella, The Mark of the Hawk, Paris Blues, Red Ball Express, David and Lisa, Cry, the Beloved Country, Free of Eden, Virgin Island
Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE ( /ˈpwɑːtjeɪ/ or /ˈpwɑːti.eɪ/; born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian American actor, film director, author, and diplomat.
In 1963, Poitier became the first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field. The significance of this achievement was later bolstered in 1967 when he starred in three well-received films To Sir, with Love; In the Heat of the Night; and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, making him the top box office star of that year. In all three films, issues revolve around the race of the characters Poitier portrays. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Poitier among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking 22nd on the list of 25.
Poitier has directed a number of popular movies such as A Piece of the Action; Uptown Saturday Night, and Let's Do It Again (with friend Bill Cosby), and Stir Crazy (starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder). In 2002, 38 years after receiving the Best Actor Award, Poitier was chosen by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to receive an Honorary Award, designated "To Sidney Poitier in recognition of his remarkable accomplishments as an artist and as a human being."
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