Sidney Poitier
Miami, Florida, USA
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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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Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
