Sidney Poitier

My Stats

Total Watched: 0 / 25 (Ranked #0)

Average Grade: 0 (Ranked #0)

Top 250 Movies: 0

General Info

Date of Birth: 20/02/1927

Date of Death: 06/01/2022 (95 years old)

Place of Birth: Miami, Florida, USA

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Biography:

Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE (born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian American actor, film director, author, and diplomat. In 1963, Poitier became the first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field. The significance of this achievement was later bolstered in 1967 when he starred in three well-received films—To Sir, with Love; In the Heat of the Night; and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner—making him the top box office star of that year. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Poitier among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking 22nd on the list of 25. Poitier has directed a number of popular movies such as A Piece of the Action; Uptown Saturday Night, and Let's Do It Again (with friend Bill Cosby), and Stir Crazy (starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder). In 2002, 38 years after receiving the Best Actor Award, Poitier was chosen by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to receive an Honorary Award, designated "To Sidney Poitier in recognition of his remarkable accomplishments as an artist and as a human being." Since 1997 he has been the Bahamian ambassador to Japan. On August 12, 2009, Sidney Poitier was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America's highest civilian honor, by President Barack Obama.

Movies:

Director

0/5 (5 unseen)

	Name	Grade
	Ghost Dad (1990)	(Not seen)
	Hanky Panky (1982) (AKA "Traces")	(Not seen)
	Stir Crazy (1980)	(Not seen)
	A Piece of the Action (1977)	(Not seen)
	Uptown Saturday Night (1974)	(Not seen)

Actor

0/22 (22 unseen)

	Name	Grade
	The Green Fog (2017)	(Not seen)
	I Am Not Your Negro (2016) As Various Roles (archive footage)	(Not seen)
	Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013) As Toller	(Not seen)
	Entourage (2004) As Porgy	(Not seen)
	The Jackal (1997) As Carter Preston	(Not seen)
	Sneakers (1992) As Donald Crease	(Not seen)
	Little Nikita (1988) As Roy Parmenter	(Not seen)
	Shoot to Kill (1988) As Warren Stantin	(Not seen)
	A Piece of the Action (1977) As Manny Durrell	(Not seen)
	Uptown Saturday Night (1974) As Steve Jackson	(Not seen)
	They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970) As Virgil Tibbs	(Not seen)
	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) As John Prentice	(Not seen)
	To Sir, with Love (1967) As Mark Thackeray	(Not seen)
	In the Heat of the Night (1967) As Virgil Tibbs	(Not seen)
	The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) (AKA "George Stevens Presents The Greatest Story Ever Told") As Simon of Cyrene	(Not seen)
	Pressure Point (1962) As Doctor	(Not seen)
	Paris Blues (1961) As Eddie Cook	(Not seen)
	A Raisin in the Sun (1961) As Walter Lee Younger	(Not seen)
	The Defiant Ones (1958) As Noah Cullen	(Not seen)
	Edge of the City (1957) As Tommy Tyler	(Not seen)
	Blackboard Jungle (1955) (AKA "The Blackboard Jungle") As Gregory W. Miller	(Not seen)
	The Oscars (1953) As Self (7 episodes)	(Not seen)