Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE (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 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.
Movie | Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain | Self (archive footage) | 2022-10-15 |
Movie | Sidney | Self | 2022-09-10 |
Movie | Mr. SOUL! | Self (archive footage) | 2018-04-27 |
Movie | The Madding Crowd | Self (archive footage) | 2017-02-01 |
Movie | I Am Not Your Negro | Various Roles (archive footage) | 2017-02-03 |
Movie | Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart | Self | 2017-10-14 |
Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
Movie | Martin Luther King and the March on Washington | Self | 2013-01-01 |
Movie | Moms Mabley | Self | 2013-04-20 |
Movie | Sing Your Song | Self | 2012-01-13 |
Movie | Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project | Self | 2007-10-13 |
Movie | Hollywood Legenden | Self | 2004-01-01 |
Movie | The Last Brickmaker in America | Henry Cobb | 2001-09-23 |
Movie | Quincy Jones: In the Pocket | Self | 2001-11-18 |
Movie | Free of Eden | Will Cleamons | 1999-02-21 |
Movie | The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn | Noah Dearborn | 1999-05-09 |
Movie | David and Lisa | Dr. Jack Miller | 1998-11-01 |
Movie | Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist | Reverend Msimangu (archive footage) | 1998-01-01 |
Movie | Afro Promo | Self (archive footage) | 1997-01-31 |
Movie | Mandela and de Klerk | Nelson Mandela | 1997-02-16 |
Movie | The Jackal | Carter Preston | 1997-11-14 |
Movie | To Sir, with Love II | Mark Thackeray | 1996-04-07 |
Movie | Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick | Self | 1995-01-01 |
Series | Children of the Dust | Gypsy Smith | 1995-02-26 |
Movie | Sneakers | Crease | 1992-09-09 |
Movie | Separate But Equal | Thurgood Marshall | 1991-04-07 |
Movie | Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night | Self - Audience Member | 1988-01-03 |
Movie | Little Nikita | Roy Parmenter | 1988-03-17 |
Movie | Shoot to Kill | Warren Stantin | 1988-02-12 |
Movie | The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn | Self | 1986-03-09 |
Movie | Night of 100 Stars II | Self | 1985-03-10 |
Movie | I Love Quincy | Self | 1984-03-23 |
Series | The Kennedy Center Honors | Unknown | 1978-12-28 |
Movie | A Piece of the Action | Manny Durrell | 1977-10-07 |
Movie | The Wilby Conspiracy | Shack Twala | 1975-02-01 |
Movie | Let's Do It Again | Clyde Williams | 1975-10-11 |
Movie | Uptown Saturday Night | Steve Jackson | 1974-07-26 |
Movie | A Warm December | Dr. Matt Younger | 1973-05-23 |
Movie | Buck and the Preacher | Buck | 1972-03-17 |
Movie | Nationtime | Self - Narrator | 1972-11-01 |
Movie | Brother John | John Kane | 1971-08-15 |
Movie | The Organization | Virgil Tibbs | 1971-10-20 |
Movie | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage) | 1970-03-24 |
Movie | They Call Me Mister Tibbs! | Virgil Tibbs | 1970-07-10 |
Movie | The Lost Man | Jason Higgs | 1969-07-11 |
Movie | For Love of Ivy | Jack Parks | 1968-07-17 |
Movie | Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed | 1968-08-31 | |
Movie | To Sir, with Love | Mark Thackeray | 1967-06-14 |
Movie | In the Heat of the Night | Virgil Tibbs | 1967-08-02 |
Movie | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | John Prentice | 1967-12-11 |
Movie | The Strolling '20s | Self | 1966-02-04 |
Movie | Duel at Diablo | Toller | 1966-06-15 |
Movie | A Cinderella Named Elizabeth | Self | 1965-01-01 |
Movie | The Greatest Story Ever Told | Simon of Cyrene | 1965-04-09 |
Movie | A Patch of Blue | Gordon Ralfe | 1965-12-10 |
Movie | The Bedford Incident | Ben Munceford | 1965-10-11 |
Movie | The Slender Thread | Alan Newell | 1965-12-15 |
Movie | The Long Ships | Aly Mansuh | 1964-04-22 |
Movie | Lilies of the Field | Homer Smith | 1963-06-04 |
Movie | Pressure Point | Doctor | 1962-10-10 |
Movie | A Raisin in the Sun | Walter Lee Younger | 1961-05-28 |
Movie | Paris Blues | Eddie Cook | 1961-09-27 |
Movie | All the Young Men | Sgt. Eddie Towler | 1960-08-26 |
Movie | Virgin Island | Marcus | 1959-08-07 |
Movie | Porgy and Bess | Porgy | 1959-06-24 |
Movie | The Defiant Ones | Noah Cullen | 1958-08-14 |
Movie | Edge of the City | Tommy Tyler | 1957-01-04 |
Movie | Something of Value | Kimani Wa Karanja | 1957-05-08 |
Movie | Band of Angels | Rau-Ru | 1957-08-03 |
Movie | The Mark of the Hawk | Obam | 1957-12-01 |
Movie | Good-bye, My Lady | Gates Watson | 1956-05-12 |
Movie | Blackboard Jungle | Gregory W. Miller | 1955-03-25 |
Movie | A Man Is Ten Feet Tall | Tommy Tyler | 1955-10-02 |
Movie | Go Man Go | Inman Jackson | 1954-01-27 |
Series | The Oscars | Sidney Poitier | 1953-03-19 |
Movie | The Red Ball Express | Robertson | 1952-05-29 |
Movie | Cry, the Beloved Country | Reverend Msimangu | 1951-11-16 |
Movie | No Way Out | Dr. Luther Brooks | 1950-08-16 |