Sidney Poitier

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

The Jackal

as Carter Preston

In the Heat of the Night

as Virgil Tibbs

Sneakers

as Crease

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

as John Prentice

I Am Not Your Negro

as Various Roles (archive footage)

To Sir, with Love

as Mark Thackeray

The Defiant Ones

as Noah Cullen

Shoot to Kill

as Warren Stantin

The Greatest Story Ever Told

as Simon of Cyrene

Lilies of the Field

as Homer Smith