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.
as Self (archive footage)(4 eps)
as Self (archive photos)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Henry Cobb
as Noah Dearborn
as Will Cleamons
as Dr. Jack Miller
as Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
as Carter Preston
as Nelson Mandela
as Self (archive footage)
as Mark Thackeray
as Gypsy Smith(2 eps)
as Self
as Crease
as Thurgood Marshall
as Thurgood Marshall(2 eps)
as Roy Parmenter
as Warren Stantin
as Self - Audience Member
as Self
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Self(2 eps)
as Manny Durrell
as Clyde Williams
as Shack Twala
as Steve Jackson
as Dr. Matt Younger
as Self(1 ep)
as Self - Narrator
as Buck
as Self(1 ep)
as Virgil Tibbs
as John Kane
as Virgil Tibbs
as Self (archive footage)
as Jason Higgs
as Jack Parks
as Self - Guest(1 ep)
as John Prentice
as Det. Virgil Tibbs
as Mark Thackeray
as Self - Host(1 ep)
as Toller
as Self
as Alan Newell
as Gordon Ralfe
as Ben Munceford
as Simon of Cyrene
as Self
as Aly Mansuh
as Homer Smith
as Doctor
as Self(1 ep)
as Self(2 eps)
as Self(1 ep)
as Self - Taped Tribute(1 ep)
as Eddie Cook
as Walter Lee Younger
as Sgt. Eddie Towler
as Marcus
as Porgy
as Noah Cullen
as Obam
as Rau-Ru
as Self(1 ep)
as Kimani Wa Karanja
as Tommy Tyler
as Gates Watson
as Self - Presenter(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as Tommy Tyler
as Gregory W. Miller
as Inman Jackson
as Self(7 eps)
as Robertson
as Reverend Msimangu
as Luther Brooks
as Tommy Tyler(1 ep)
as Nightclub Extra (uncredited)
as Self - Nominee(1 ep)
as Self - Presenter(1 ep)