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Sidney Poitier (/ ˈ p w ɑː t j eɪ / PWAH-tyay; [1] February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first Black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor . [ 2 ]
Sidney Poitier considered Steiger and Spencer Tracy to be the finest actors with whom he ever worked. Steiger had intended returning to the stage, and had signed on to play the title character in Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, at the Lincoln Center Repertory Company in April 1967, but the production was cancelled when he became ill. [100]
He was seen as a British equivalent to Sidney Poitier, ... (1974), both directed by Poitier. ... He is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City. [2] Filmography
Sidney Poitier’s filmography speaks for itself.Over the course of his decades-long career, the Hollywood icon, who died in 2022 at the age of 94, starred in classics like A Raisin in the Sun ...
Sidney Poitier, who broke through racial barriers as the first Black winner of the best actor Oscar for his role in "Lilies of the Field," and inspired a generation during the civil rights ...
Sidney Poitier, the renowned actor, director and activist, died of a combination of heart failure, Alzheimer’s dementia and prostate cancer, according to his
Louis Gossett Jr., Dee and Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun (1959) In 1959 she gained prominence for originating the role of Ruth Younger in the Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun which premiered on Broadway. She acted alongside Sidney Poitier and Louis Gossett Jr.. The play was the first play written by a Black woman to be ...
Uncompromising as he pursued a personal and public life, Poitier aimed to honor his upbringing and the invaluable legacy of his parents. Just a few years after his introduction to indoor plumbing and the automobile, Poitier broke racial barrier after racial barrier to launch a pioneering acting career.