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Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier KBE 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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Miami, Florida, USA, 1927-02-20

Died: 2022-01-06

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1947	Sepia Cinderella	Nightclub Extra (uncredited)	48
2	1950	No Way Out	Luther Brooks	69
3	1951	Cry, the Beloved Country	Reverend Msimangu	61
4	1952	The Red Ball Express	Robertson	58
5	1954	Go Man Go	Inman Jackson	57
6	1955	Blackboard Jungle	Gregory W. Miller	69
7	1955	A Man Is Ten Feet Tall	Tommy Tyler	0
8	1956	Good-bye, My Lady	Gates Watson	77
9	1957	Edge of the City	Tommy Tyler	71
10	1957	Something of Value	Kimani Wa Karanja	55
11	1957	Band of Angels	Rau-Ru	62
12	1957	The Mark of the Hawk	Obam	30
13	1958	The Defiant Ones	Noah Cullen	71
14	1959	Porgy and Bess	Porgy	61
15	1959	Virgin Island	Marcus	50
16	1960	All the Young Men	Sgt. Eddie Towler	63
17	1961	A Raisin in the Sun	Walter Lee Younger	77
18	1961	Paris Blues	Eddie Cook	64
19	1962	Pressure Point	Doctor	66
20	1963	Lilies of the Field	Homer Smith	72
21	1964	The Long Ships	Aly Mansuh	61
22	1965	A Cinderella Named Elizabeth	Self	70
23	1965	The Greatest Story Ever Told	Simon of Cyrene	64
24	1965	The Bedford Incident	Ben Munceford	69
25	1965	A Patch of Blue	Gordon Ralfe	76
26	1965	The Slender Thread	Alan Newell	71
27	1966	The Strolling '20s	Self	0
28	1966	Duel at Diablo	Toller	63
29	1967	To Sir, with Love	Mark Thackeray	75
30	1967	In the Heat of the Night	Virgil Tibbs	76
31	1967	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	John Prentice	76
32	1968	For Love of Ivy	Jack Parks	59
33	1969	Three Young Americans in Search of Survival	Himself	0
34	1969	The Lost Man	Jason Higgs	40
35	1970	King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis	Self (archive footage)	71
36	1970	They Call Me Mister Tibbs!	Virgil Tibbs	58
37	1971	Brother John	John Kane	62
38	1971	The Organization	Virgil Tibbs	60
39	1972	Buck and the Preacher	Buck	62
40	1972	Nationtime	Self - Narrator	80
41	1973	A Warm December	Dr. Matt Younger	64
42	1974	Uptown Saturday Night	Steve Jackson	61
43	1975	The Wilby Conspiracy	Shack Twala	64
44	1975	Let's Do It Again	Clyde Williams	69
45	1977	A Piece of the Action	Manny Durrell	56
46	1979	Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist	Narrator (voice)	72
47	1984	I Love Quincy	Self	0
48	1985	Night of 100 Stars II	Self	80
49	1986	The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn	Self	80
50	1988	Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night	Self - Audience Member	75
51	1988	Shoot to Kill	Warren Stantin	66
52	1988	Little Nikita	Roy Parmenter	61
53	1991	Separate But Equal	Thurgood Marshall	65
54	1992	Sneakers	Crease	69
55	1995	Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick	Self	80
56	1996	To Sir, with Love II	Mark Thackeray	64
57	1997	Afro Promo	Self (archive footage)	0
58	1997	Mandela and de Klerk	Nelson Mandela	65
59	1997	The Jackal	Carter Preston	64
60	1998	Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist	Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)	77
61	1998	David and Lisa	Dr. Jack Miller	55
62	1999	Free of Eden	Will Cleamons	100
63	1999	The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn	Noah Dearborn	58
64	2000	Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light		60
65	2000	Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters	Self	0
66	2001	The Last Brickmaker in America	Henry Cobb	76
67	2001	Quincy Jones: In the Pocket	Self	100
68	2003	The Making of ‘Sneakers’	Self	0
69	2004	Hollywood Legenden	Self	20
70	2007	Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project	Self	68
71	2012	Sing Your Song	Self	69
72	2013	Martin Luther King and the March on Washington	Self	100
73	2013	Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley	Self	67
74	2017	The Madding Crowd	Self (archive footage)	0
75	2017	Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart	Self	62
76	2018	Mr. SOUL!	Self (archive footage)	70
77	2018	Poitier's Walter Lee	Self (archive footage)	0
78	2022	Sidney	Self	76
79	2022	A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story	Self	0
80	2023	Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte	(archive footage)	90
81	2023	Paul Newman: The Restless	Self (archive footage)	81
82	2023	Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback	Self (archive footage)	65

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	72
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	72
3	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		63
4	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Tommy Tyler	63
5	1952	Omnibus		60
6	1953	The Oscars	Self	70
7	1953	Kraft Television Theatre		0
8	1956	Cinépanorama	Self	80
9	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	59
10	1957	Tonight Starring Jack Paar	Self	70
11	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
12	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self - Taped Tribute	54
13	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
14	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	62
15	1966	ABC Stage 67	Self - Host	62
16	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	68
17	1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self	63
18	1978	The Kennedy Center Honors	Self	74
19	1991	Separate but Equal	Thurgood Marshall	60
20	1995	Children of the Dust	Gypsy Smith	70