Sidney Poitier
Age: N/A | From: Miami, Florida, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Sir Sidney Poitier , Сидней Пуатье , シドニー・ポワティエ
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Miami, Florida, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 82
TV Involvements: 7
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Nickel Boys
(2024) Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tony Awards
(1956) Self - Presenter
The Kennedy Center Honors
(1978) Self
The Philco Television Playhouse
(1948) Tommy Tyler
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
(1973) Self
The Jackal
(1997) Carter Preston
The Oscars
(1953) Self
The Greatest Story Ever Told
(1965) Simon of CyreneActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 2023 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| (archive footage) | ||
| 2022 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Self | ||
| 2018 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 2017 | Self | |
| Various Roles (archive footage) | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 2014 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2013 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| 2012 | Self | |
| 2007 | Self | |
| 2004 | Self | |
| 2003 | Self | |
| 2001 | Self | |
| Henry Cobb | ||
| 2000 | Self | |
| N/A | ||
| 1999 | Noah Dearborn | |
| Will Cleamons | ||
| 1998 | Dr. Jack Miller | |
| Reverend Msimangu (archive footage) | ||
| 1997 | Carter Preston | |
| Nelson Mandela | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1996 | Mark Thackeray | |
| 1995 | Gypsy Smith | |
| Self | ||
| 1992 | Crease | |
| 1991 | Thurgood Marshall | |
| Thurgood Marshall | ||
| 1988 | Roy Parmenter | |
| Warren Stantin | ||
| Self - Audience Member | ||
| 1986 | Self | |
| 1985 | Self | |
| 1984 | Self | |
| 1979 | Narrator (voice) | |
| 1978 | Self | |
| 1977 | Manny Durrell | |
| 1975 | Clyde Williams | |
| Shack Twala | ||
| 1974 | Steve Jackson | |
| 1973 | Dr. Matt Younger | |
| Self | ||
| 1972 | Self - Narrator | |
| Buck | ||
| 1971 | Virgil Tibbs | |
| John Kane | ||
| 1970 | Virgil Tibbs | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1969 | Jason Higgs | |
| Himself | ||
| 1968 | Jack Parks | |
| Self - Guest | ||
| 1967 | John Prentice | |
| Virgil Tibbs | ||
| Mark Thackeray | ||
| 1966 | Toller | |
| Self | ||
| 1965 | Alan Newell | |
| Gordon Ralfe | ||
| Ben Munceford | ||
| Simon of Cyrene | ||
| Self | ||
| 1964 | Aly Mansuh | |
| 1963 | Homer Smith | |
| 1962 | Doctor | |
| Self | ||
| 1961 | Eddie Cook | |
| Walter Lee Younger | ||
| 1960 | Sgt. Eddie Towler | |
| 1959 | Marcus | |
| Porgy | ||
| 1958 | Noah Cullen | |
| 1957 | Obam | |
| Rau-Ru | ||
| Kimani Wa Karanja | ||
| Tommy Tyler | ||
| 1956 | Gates Watson | |
| Self - Presenter | ||
| Self | ||
| 1955 | Tommy Tyler | |
| Gregory W. Miller | ||
| 1954 | Inman Jackson | |
| 1953 | Self | |
| 1952 | N/A | |
| Robertson | ||
| 1951 | Reverend Msimangu | |
| 1950 | Dr. Luther Brooks | |
| 1948 | N/A | |
| Tommy Tyler | ||
| 1944 | Self - Winner | |
| Self - Presenter | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Director | |
| 1985 | Director | |
| 1982 | Director | |
| 1980 | Director | |
| 1977 | Director | |
| 1975 | Director | |
| 1974 | Director | |
| 1973 | Director | |
| 1972 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Original Story | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |