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I Am Not Your Negro

as Various Roles (archive footage)

2017
Sing Your Song

as Self

2012
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn

as Noah Dearborn

1999
David and Lisa

as Dr. Jack Miller

1998
The Jackal

as Carter Preston

1997
Mandela and de Klerk

as Nelson Mandela

1997
Children of the Dust

as Gypsy Smith

1995
Children of the Dust

as Gypsy Smith

1995
Sneakers

as Crease

1992
Separate But Equal

as Thurgood Marshall

1991
Shoot to Kill

as Warren Stantin

1988
Little Nikita

as Roy Parmenter

1988
A Piece of the Action

as Manny Durrell

1977
The Wilby Conspiracy

as Shack Twala

1975
Let's Do It Again

as Clyde Williams

1975
A Warm December

as Dr. Matt Younger

1973
The Organization

as Virgil Tibbs

1971
Brother John

as John Kane

1971
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

as Virgil Tibbs

1970
For Love of Ivy

as Jack Parks

1968
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

as John Prentice

1967
In the Heat of the Night

as Virgil Tibbs

1967
To Sir, with Love

as Mark Thackeray

1967
Duel at Diablo

as Toller

1966
The Bedford Incident

as Ben Munceford

1965
A Patch of Blue

as Gordon Ralfe

1965
The Slender Thread

as Alan Newell

1965
Sidney Poitier Sidney Poitier

Birthday

1927-02-20

Place of Birth

Miami, Florida, USA

Biography

Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE (February 20, 1927 - January 6, 2022) was 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 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." Since 1997 he has been the Bahamian ambassador to Japan. On August 12, 2009, Sidney Poitier was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America's highest civilian honor, by President Barack Obama.
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