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 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.
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Complete Filmography & Verdicts
| Year | Movie | Character | Rating | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback | Self (archive footage) | HIT | |
| 2023 | Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte | Self (archive footage) | HIT | |
| 2022 | Sidney | Self | HIT | |
| 2018 | Mr. SOUL! | Self (archive footage) | HIT | |
| 2013 | Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley | Self | HIT | |
| 2013 | Martin Luther King and the March on Washington | Self | HIT | |
| 2012 | Sing Your Song | Self | HIT | |
| 2007 | Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project | Self | HIT | |
| 2001 | Quincy Jones: In the Pocket | Self | HIT | |
| 2001 | The Last Brickmaker in America | Henry Cobb | HIT | |
| 1999 | Free of Eden | Will Cleamons | HIT | |
| 1998 | Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist | Reverend Msimangu (archive footage) | HIT | |
| 1997 | The Jackal | Carter Preston | FLOP | |
| 1997 | Mandela and de Klerk | Nelson Mandela | HIT | |
| 1996 | To Sir, with Love II | Mark Thackeray | FLOP | |
| 1995 | Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick | Self | HIT | |
| 1992 | Sneakers | Crease | HIT | |
| 1991 | Separate But Equal | Thurgood Marshall | HIT | |
| 1988 | Shoot to Kill | Warren Stantin | HIT | |
| 1988 | Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night | Self - Audience Member | HIT | |
| 1986 | The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn | Self | HIT | |
| 1985 | Night of 100 Stars II | Self | HIT | |
| 1979 | Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist | Narrator (voice) | HIT | |
| 1975 | Let's Do It Again | Clyde Williams | HIT | |
| 1975 | The Wilby Conspiracy | Shack Twala | FLOP | |
| 1973 | A Warm December | Dr. Matt Younger | FLOP | |
| 1972 | Nationtime | Self - Narrator | HIT | |
| 1972 | Buck and the Preacher | Buck | FLOP | |
| 1971 | The Organization | Virgil Tibbs | FLOP | |
| 1970 | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage) | HIT | |
| 1967 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | John Prentice | HIT | |
| 1967 | In the Heat of the Night | Virgil Tibbs | HIT | |
| 1967 | To Sir, with Love | Mark Thackeray | HIT | |
| 1966 | Duel at Diablo | Toller | FLOP | |
| 1965 | The Slender Thread | Alan Newell | HIT | |
| 1965 | A Patch of Blue | Gordon Ralfe | HIT | |
| 1965 | The Bedford Incident | Ben Munceford | HIT | |
| 1965 | The Greatest Story Ever Told | Simon of Cyrene | FLOP | |
| 1965 | A Cinderella Named Elizabeth | Self | HIT | |
| 1963 | Lilies of the Field | Homer Smith | HIT | |
| 1962 | Pressure Point | Doctor | HIT | |
| 1961 | Paris Blues | Eddie Cook | HIT | |
| 1961 | A Raisin in the Sun | Walter Lee Younger | HIT | |
| 1960 | All the Young Men | Sgt. Eddie Towler | FLOP | |
| 1958 | The Defiant Ones | Noah Cullen | HIT | |
| 1957 | Band of Angels | Rau-Ru | FLOP | |
| 1957 | Edge of the City | Tommy Tyler | HIT | |
| 1956 | Good-bye, My Lady | Gates Watson | HIT | |
| 1955 | Blackboard Jungle | Gregory W. Miller | HIT | |
| 1950 | No Way Out | Luther Brooks | HIT |