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.
Sneakers
as Crease
The Jackal
as Carter Preston
In the Heat of the Night
as Virgil Tibbs
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Simon of Cyrene
Sidney
as Self
Shoot to Kill
as Warren Stantin
Blackboard Jungle
as Gregory W. Miller
To Sir, with Love
as Mark Thackeray
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
as John Prentice
Little Nikita
as Roy Parmenter
Brother John
as John Kane
Duel at Diablo
as Toller
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
The Wilby Conspiracy
as Shack Twala
Buck and the Preacher
as Buck
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
as Virgil Tibbs
A Patch of Blue
as Gordon Ralfe
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
The Defiant Ones
as Noah Cullen
The Last Brickmaker in America
as Henry Cobb
The Organization
as Virgil Tibbs
A Raisin in the Sun
as Walter Lee Younger
The Slender Thread
as Alan Newell
No Way Out
as Luther Brooks
Let's Do It Again
as Clyde Williams
The Long Ships
as Aly Mansuh
Lilies of the Field
as Homer Smith
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
as Self - Audience Member
Nationtime
as Self - Narrator
Paris Blues
as Eddie Cook
Porgy and Bess
as Porgy
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
as Self
Band of Angels
as Rau-Ru
The Bedford Incident
as Ben Munceford
David and Lisa
as Dr. Jack Miller
To Sir, with Love II
as Mark Thackeray
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
as Noah Dearborn
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
as Self
A Piece of the Action
as Manny Durrell
The Red Ball Express
as Robertson
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
as Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
Something of Value
as Kimani Wa Karanja
Pressure Point
as Doctor
Uptown Saturday Night
as Steve Jackson
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
as Self
A Warm December
as Dr. Matt Younger
Free of Eden
as Will Cleamons
The Resurrection of Christ
Edge of the City
as Tommy Tyler
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
as Self
Separate But Equal
as Thurgood Marshall
I Love Quincy
as Self
Good-bye, My Lady
as Gates Watson
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
as Self
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
as Self (archive footage)
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
For Love of Ivy
as Jack Parks
Mandela and de Klerk
as Nelson Mandela
The Mark of the Hawk
as Obam
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
as Self
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
as Self
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
as Narrator (voice)
Hollywood Legenden
as Self
Virgin Island
as Marcus
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
as Self
All the Young Men
as Sgt. Eddie Towler
Mr. SOUL!
as Self (archive footage)
Sing Your Song
as Self
Afro Promo
as Self (archive footage)
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
as Tommy Tyler
The Strolling '20s
as Self
The Lost Man
as Jason Higgs
The Madding Crowd
as Self (archive footage)
Go Man Go
as Inman Jackson
Three Young Americans in Search of Survival
as Himself
Cry, the Beloved Country
as Reverend Msimangu
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
as Self
Sepia Cinderella
as Nightclub Extra (uncredited)
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
as Self
A Cinderella Named Elizabeth
as Self
Poitier's Walter Lee
as Self (archive footage)