Sidney Poitier
Acting
1927-02-20 · Miami, Florida, USA
Sidney Poitier KBE (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he became the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Lilies of the Field. Other accolades include 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. Major films featuring Poitier in a starring role include Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Defiant Ones (1958), To Sir, with Love (1967), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), In the Heat of the Night (1967), Sneakers (1992), and The Jackal (1997). Later in his career, he turned to directing with features such as Buck and the Preacher (1972), Uptown Saturday Night (1974), Stir Crazy (1980), and Ghost Dad (1990). At the time of his death, Poitier was one of the last major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
Filmography
The Resurrection of Christ
2026 · Movie
Hollywood Black
2024 · Series
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024 · Movie
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
2023 · Movie
Paul Newman: The Restless
2023 · Movie
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
2023 · Movie
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
2022 · Movie
Sidney
2022 · Movie
Poitier's Walter Lee
2018 · Movie
Mr. SOUL!
2018 · Movie
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
2017 · Movie
The Madding Crowd
2017 · Movie
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
2013 · Movie
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013 · Movie
Sing Your Song
2012 · Movie
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2007 · Movie
Hollywood Legenden
2004 · Movie
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003 · Movie
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
2001 · Movie
The Last Brickmaker in America
2001 · Movie
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
2000 · Movie
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
2000 · Movie
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
1999 · Movie
Free of Eden
1999 · Movie
David and Lisa
1998 · Movie
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
1998 · Movie
The Jackal
1997 · Movie
Mandela and de Klerk
1997 · Movie
Afro Promo
1997 · Movie
To Sir, with Love II
1996 · Movie
Children of the Dust
1995 · Series
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
1995 · Movie
Sneakers
1992 · Movie
Separate but Equal
1991 · Series
Separate but Equal
1991 · Movie
Ghost Dad
1990 · Movie
Little Nikita
1988 · Movie
Shoot to Kill
1988 · Movie
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
1988 · Movie
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986 · Movie
Night of 100 Stars II
1985 · Movie
Fast Forward
1985 · Movie
I Love Quincy
1984 · Movie
Hanky Panky
1982 · Movie
Stir Crazy
1980 · Movie
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
1979 · Movie
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978 · Series
A Piece of the Action
1977 · Movie
Let's Do It Again
1975 · Movie
The Wilby Conspiracy
1975 · Movie
Uptown Saturday Night
1974 · Movie
A Warm December
1973 · Movie
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973 · Series
Nationtime: Gary
1972 · Movie
Buck and the Preacher
1972 · Movie
Film '72
1971 · Series
The Organization
1971 · Movie
Brother John
1971 · Movie
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
1970 · Movie
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970 · Movie
The Lost Man
1969 · Movie
Three Young Americans in Search of Survival
1969 · Movie
For Love of Ivy
1968 · Movie
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Series
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967 · Movie
Omnibus
1967 · Series
In the Heat of the Night
1967 · Movie
To Sir, with Love
1967 · Movie
ABC Stage 67
1966 · Series
Duel at Diablo
1966 · Movie
The Strolling '20s
1966 · Movie
The Slender Thread
1965 · Movie
A Patch of Blue
1965 · Movie
The Bedford Incident
1965 · Movie
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965 · Movie
A Cinderella Named Elizabeth
1965 · Movie
The Long Ships
1964 · Movie
Lilies of the Field
1963 · Movie
Pressure Point
1962 · Movie
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Series
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Series
Paris Blues
1961 · Movie
A Raisin in the Sun
1961 · Movie
All the Young Men
1960 · Movie
Virgin Island
1959 · Movie
Porgy and Bess
1959 · Movie
The Defiant Ones
1958 · Movie
The Mark of the Hawk
1957 · Movie
Band of Angels
1957 · Movie
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957 · Series
Something of Value
1957 · Movie
Edge of the City
1957 · Movie
Good-bye, My Lady
1956 · Movie
Tony Awards
1956 · Series
Cinépanorama
1956 · Series
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
1955 · Movie
Blackboard Jungle
1955 · Movie
Go Man Go
1954 · Movie
Kraft Television Theatre
1953 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Omnibus
1952 · Series
The Red Ball Express
1952 · Movie
Cry, the Beloved Country
1951 · Movie
No Way Out
1950 · Movie
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · Series
Sepia Cinderella
1947 · Movie
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series