Sidney Poitier
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.
102 acting credits · 9 directing credits
Acting · 102
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
Tony Awards
1956
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Omnibus
1967
The Oscars
1953
Omnibus
1952
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
Film '72
1971
Cinépanorama
1956
ABC Stage 67
1966
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
The Jackal
1997
Sneakers
1992
Hollywood Black
2024
In the Heat of the Night
1967
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
Children of the Dust
1995
Separate but Equal
1991
To Sir, with Love
1967
Shoot to Kill
1988
Kraft Television Theatre
1953
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
Blackboard Jungle
1955
A Patch of Blue
1965
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967
Lilies of the Field
1963
The Defiant Ones
1958
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
1988
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2007
Duel at Diablo
1966
The Organization
1971
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
1970
Buck and the Preacher
1972
The Bedford Incident
1965
Band of Angels
1957
Little Nikita
1988
Sidney
2022
A Raisin in the Sun
1961
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
1998
Paris Blues
1961
No Way Out
1950
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986
To Sir, with Love II
1996
Edge of the City
1957
Pressure Point
1962
The Long Ships
1964
The Red Ball Express
1952
The Wilby Conspiracy
1975
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
1999
Porgy and Bess
1959
The Slender Thread
1965
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
2023
Let's Do It Again
1975
Something of Value
1957
A Warm December
1973
David and Lisa
1998
Free of Eden
1999
A Piece of the Action
1977
Nationtime
1972
Hollywood Legenden
2004
The Lost Man
1969
For Love of Ivy
1968
The Last Brickmaker in America
2001
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
2000
Uptown Saturday Night
1974
Separate But Equal
1991
The Mark of the Hawk
1957
Brother John
1971
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
2013
Mandela and de Klerk
1997
All the Young Men
1960
Good-bye, My Lady
1956
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
2023
Mr. SOUL!
2018
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
2017
The Resurrection of Christ
2026
Virgin Island
1959
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003
Cry, the Beloved Country
1951
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
1995
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
1955
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013
The Strolling '20s
1966
I Love Quincy
1984
Afro Promo
1997
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
2000
Go Man Go
1954
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
2001
Sepia Cinderella
1947
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
2022
The Madding Crowd
2017
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
1979
Poitier's Walter Lee
2018
Sing Your Song
2012
A Cinderella Named Elizabeth
1965
Three Young Americans in Search of Survival
1969
