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.
Known For
Sneakers
Crease
The Jackal
Carter Preston
The Greatest Story Ever T...
Simon of Cyrene
In the Heat of the Night
Virgil Tibbs
To Sir, with Love
Mark Thackeray
A Raisin in the Sun
Walter Lee Younger
Guess Who's Coming to Din...
John Prentice
Lilies of the Field
Homer Smith
Duel at Diablo
Toller
Blackboard Jungle
Gregory W. Miller