Sidney Poitier
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1927-02-20
Deathday 2022-01-07 (94 years old)
Place of Birth Miami, Florida, USA
Also Known As Sir Sidney Poitier, Сидней Пуатье, Сидни Пуатье
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.
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Actor
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as Various Roles (archive footage)
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as Henry Cobb
as Noah Dearborn
as Will Cleamons
as Dr. Jack Miller
as Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
as Carter Preston
as Nelson Mandela
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as Mark Thackeray
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as Gypsy Smith
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as Thurgood Marshall
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as Roy Parmenter
as Warren Stantin
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as Manny Durrell
as Clyde Williams
as Shack Twala
as Steve Jackson
as Dr. Matt Younger
as Self - Narrator
as Buck
as Virgil Tibbs
as John Kane
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as Self (archive footage)
as Jason Higgs
as Jack Parks
as Self - Guest
as John Prentice
as Virgil Tibbs
as Mark Thackeray
as Toller
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as Alan Newell
as Gordon Ralfe
as Ben Munceford
as Simon of Cyrene
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as Aly Mansuh
as Homer Smith
as Doctor
as Eddie Cook
as Walter Lee Younger
as Sgt. Eddie Towler
as Marcus
as Porgy
as Noah Cullen
as Obam
as Rau-Ru
as Kimani Wa Karanja
as Tommy Tyler
as Gates Watson
as Self - Presenter
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as Gregory W. Miller
as Inman Jackson
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as Robertson
as Reverend Msimangu
as Dr. Luther Brooks
as Tommy Tyler
as Self - Winner
Director
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Producer
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Writer
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