Sidney Poitier
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 (104 titles)
MovieThe Resurrection of Christ
2026
3.7ShowHollywood Black
Self (archive footage) · 2024
7.2MovieRemembering Gene Wilder
Self (archive photos) · 2024
6.5MovieReinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Self (archive footage) · 2023
7.7MoviePaul Newman: The Restless
Self · 2023
3.0MovieSidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
Self (archive footage) · 2023
MovieA Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
Self · 2022
7.0MovieSidney
Self · 2022
MoviePoitier's Walter Lee
Self (archive footage) · 2018
7.0MovieMr. SOUL!
Self (archive footage) · 2018
6.2MovieLorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
Self · 2017
MovieThe Madding Crowd
Self (archive footage) · 2017
6.7MovieWhoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
Self · 2013
10.0MovieMartin Luther King and the March on Washington
Self · 2013
6.9MovieSing Your Song
Self · 2012
6.8MovieMr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Self · 2007
Hollywood Legenden
Self · 2004
7.5MovieThe Making of ‘Sneakers’
Self · 2003
10.0MovieQuincy Jones: In the Pocket
Self · 2001
8.0MovieThe Last Brickmaker in America
Henry Cobb · 2001
MovieRichard Widmark: Strength of Characters
Self · 2000
6.7MovieSidney Poitier: One Bright Light
2000
6.2MovieThe Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
Noah Dearborn · 1999
9.7MovieFree of Eden
Will Cleamons · 1999
6.0MovieDavid and Lisa
Dr. Jack Miller · 1998
8.3MovieScandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Reverend Msimangu (archive footage) · 1998
6.4MovieThe Jackal
Carter Preston · 1997
7.0MovieMandela and de Klerk
Nelson Mandela · 1997
8.0MovieAfro Promo
Self (archive footage) · 1997
6.4MovieTo Sir, with Love II
Mark Thackeray · 1996