Cast
Sidney Poitier
Acting
Cast
Sidney Poitier
Known for
Acting
Born
1927-02-20
From
Miami, Florida, USA
Died
2022-01-06
Also known as Sir Sidney Poitier, Сидней Пуатье, シドニー・ポワティエ
Biography
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.
★6.9
MOVIE1992
Sneakers
as Crease
★6.4
MOVIE1997
The Jackal
as Carter Preston
★7.7
MOVIE1967
In the Heat of the Night
as Virgil Tibbs
★8.0
MOVIE1972
Nationtime: Gary
as Self - Narrator
★6.3
MOVIE1971
The Organization
as Virgil Tibbs
★7.6
MOVIE1967
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
as John Prentice
★6.4
MOVIE1965
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Simon of Cyrene
★7.5
MOVIE1967
To Sir, with Love
as Mark Thackeray
MOVIE2026
The Resurrection of Christ
★6.6
MOVIE1988
Shoot to Kill
as Warren Stantin
★7.6
MOVIE1965
A Patch of Blue
as Gordon Ralfe
★6.5
MOVIE1961
Paris Blues
as Eddie Cook
★6.1
MOVIE1964
The Long Ships
as Aly Mansuh
★7.1
MOVIE1958
The Defiant Ones
as Noah Cullen
★7.0
MOVIE1965
The Bedford Incident
as Ben Munceford
★6.4
MOVIE1975
The Wilby Conspiracy
as Shack Twala
★7.2
MOVIE1963
Lilies of the Field
as Homer Smith
★6.1
MOVIE1988
Little Nikita
as Roy Parmenter
★6.8
MOVIE1985
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
★6.4
MOVIE1966
Duel at Diablo
as Toller
★6.4
MOVIE1996
To Sir, with Love II
as Mark Thackeray
★7.0
MOVIE1975
Let's Do It Again
as Clyde Williams
★7.0
MOVIE2022
Sidney
as Self
★5.9
MOVIE1952
The Red Ball Express
as Robertson
★5.9
MOVIE1970
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
as Virgil Tibbs
★6.0
MOVIE1998
David and Lisa
as Dr. Jack Miller
★7.7
MOVIE1961
A Raisin in the Sun
as Walter Lee Younger
★6.9
MOVIE2012
Sing Your Song
as Self
★6.2
MOVIE1974
Uptown Saturday Night
as Steve Jackson
★6.9
MOVIE1950
No Way Out
as Luther Brooks
★5.2
MOVIE1947
Sepia Cinderella
as Nightclub Extra (uncredited)
★7.3
MOVIE1979
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
as Narrator (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE2007
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
as Self
★6.9
MOVIE1955
Blackboard Jungle
as Gregory W. Miller
★5.8
MOVIE1977
A Piece of the Action
as Manny Durrell
★6.2
MOVIE1968
For Love of Ivy
as Jack Parks
★7.1
MOVIE1965
The Slender Thread
as Alan Newell
★7.5
MOVIE2003
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
as Self
★5.5
MOVIE1957
Something of Value
as Kimani Wa Karanja
★6.5
MOVIE1962
Pressure Point
as Doctor
★7.3
MOVIE1970
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
★6.5
MOVIE1991
Separate but Equal
as Thurgood Marshall
★7.7
MOVIE2023
Paul Newman: The Restless
as Self
★7.2
MOVIE1957
Edge of the City
as Tommy Tyler
★7.8
MOVIE1956
Good-bye, My Lady
as Gates Watson
★6.7
MOVIE2000
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
★6.2
MOVIE1999
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
as Noah Dearborn
★6.5
MOVIE1971
Brother John
as John Kane
★7.2
MOVIE2024
Remembering Gene Wilder
as Self (archive photos)
★7.0
MOVIE1997
Mandela and de Klerk
as Nelson Mandela
MOVIE1969
Three Young Americans in Search of Survival
as Himself
★6.7
MOVIE1960
All the Young Men
as Sgt. Eddie Towler
MOVIE2017
The Madding Crowd
as Self (archive footage)
★3.4
MOVIE1957
The Mark of the Hawk
as Obam
★4.5
MOVIE2004
Hollywood Legenden
as Self
★8.3
MOVIE1986
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
as Self
★9.7
MOVIE1999
Free of Eden
as Will Cleamons
★6.3
MOVIE1972
Buck and the Preacher
as Buck
★4.3
MOVIE1969
The Lost Man
as Jason Higgs
★6.3
MOVIE1959
Porgy and Bess
as Porgy
★6.7
MOVIE2013
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
as Self
MOVIE2000
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE1951
Cry, the Beloved Country
as Reverend Msimangu
★7.0
MOVIE2018
Mr. SOUL!
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE1984
I Love Quincy
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE1959
Virgin Island
as Marcus
MOVIE2018
Poitier's Walter Lee
as Self (archive footage)
★6.3
MOVIE1957
Band of Angels
as Rau-Ru
★8.3
MOVIE1995
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE1973
A Warm December
as Dr. Matt Younger
★6.5
MOVIE2023
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
as Self (archive footage)
★8.0
MOVIE2001
The Last Brickmaker in America
as Henry Cobb
★5.4
MOVIE1954
Go Man Go
as Inman Jackson
★8.0
MOVIE1997
Afro Promo
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE1955
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
as Tommy Tyler
MOVIE1966
The Strolling '20s
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE2001
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
as Self
★7.6
MOVIE1988
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
as Self - Audience Member
MOVIE2022
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
as Self
★8.3
MOVIE1998
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
as Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
★3.0
MOVIE2023
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
★6.2
MOVIE2017
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE2013
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE1965
A Cinderella Named Elizabeth
as Self