Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier is a Bahamian-American retired actor, film director, and ambassador. In 1964, Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor becoming the first black male and Afro-Bahamian actor to win that award. He is the oldest living and earliest surviving Best Actor Academy Award winner. From 1997 to 2007, he served as the Bahamian Ambassador to Japan.

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General Info
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Male
Date of Birth
February 20th, 1927
Age
97
Birth Place
The Bahamas
Date of Death
January 6th, 2022
Died Aged
94
Star Sign
Pisces
Height
189 cm | 6'2
Occupation
Filmmaker
Actor
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Directed works
Roles
Preston in The Jackal
Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night
Crease in Sneakers
John Prentice in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Mark Thackeray in To Sir, with Love
Noah Cullen in The Defiant Ones
Warren Stantin in Shoot to Kill
Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field
Gordon Ralfe in A Patch of Blue
Walter Lee Younger in A Raisin in the Sun
Dr. Luther Brooks in No Way Out
Clyde Williams in Let's Do It Again
Toller in Duel at Diablo
Eddie Cook in Paris Blues
Alan Newell in The Slender Thread
Rau-Ru in Band of Angels
Porgy in Porgy and Bess
Thurgood Marshall in Separate But Equal
Gypsy Smith in Children of the Dust
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