Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier KBE (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. He received 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. Poitier was one of the last major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sidney Poitier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Cast

Duel at Diablo

(Toller)

Sneakers

(Crease)

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

(John Prentice)

The Greatest Story Ever Told

(Simon of Cyrene)

In the Heat of the Night

(Virgil Tibbs)

Porgy and Bess

(Porgy)

Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte

((archive footage))

The Jackal

(Carter Preston)

The Defiant Ones

(Noah Cullen)

The Wilby Conspiracy

(Shack Twala)

Shoot to Kill

(Warren Stantin)

Buck and the Preacher

(Buck)

Blackboard Jungle

(Gregory W. Miller)

To Sir, with Love

(Mark Thackeray)

A Patch of Blue

(Gordon Ralfe)

Paris Blues

(Eddie Cook)

Little Nikita

(Roy Parmenter)

Pressure Point

(Doctor)

Hollywood Legenden

(Self)

Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

(Self - Audience Member)

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

(Virgil Tibbs)

Edge of the City

(Tommy Tyler)

No Way Out

(Dr. Luther Brooks)

Uptown Saturday Night

(Steve Jackson)

Let's Do It Again

(Clyde Williams)

A Raisin in the Sun

(Walter Lee Younger)

A Piece of the Action

(Manny Durrell)

Band of Angels

(Rau-Ru)

Quincy Jones: In the Pocket

(Self)

The Long Ships

(Aly Mansuh)

Lilies of the Field

(Homer Smith)

The Bedford Incident

(Ben Munceford)

Something of Value

(Kimani Wa Karanja)

A Warm December

(Dr. Matt Younger)

The Slender Thread

(Alan Newell)

For Love of Ivy

(Jack Parks)

Sing Your Song

(Self)

The Mark of the Hawk

(Obam)

The Organization

(Virgil Tibbs)

The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn

(Noah Dearborn)

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

(Self)

David and Lisa

(Dr. Jack Miller)

To Sir, with Love II

(Mark Thackeray)

Paul Newman: The Restless

(Self (archive footage))

Brother John

(John Kane)

Separate But Equal

(Thurgood Marshall)

A Cinderella Named Elizabeth

(Self)

All the Young Men

(Sgt. Eddie Towler)

Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback

(Self (archive footage))

Sidney

(Self)

The Last Brickmaker in America

(Henry Cobb)

The Red Ball Express

(Robertson)

The Lost Man

(Jason Higgs)

Free of Eden

(Will Cleamons)

Cry, the Beloved Country

(Reverend Msimangu)

Moms Mabley

(Self)

Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters

(Self)

I Love Quincy

(Self)

Mandela and de Klerk

(Nelson Mandela)

Virgin Island

(Marcus)

A Man Is Ten Feet Tall

(Tommy Tyler)

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

(Self (archive footage))

Good-bye, My Lady

(Gates Watson)

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

(Self)

Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain

(Self (archive footage))

Night of 100 Stars II

(Self)

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

(Reverend Msimangu (archive footage))

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

(Self)

Afro Promo

(Self (archive footage))

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

(Self)

The Strolling '20s

(Self)

Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

(Self)

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

(Self)

Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist

(Narrator (voice))

Go Man Go

(Inman Jackson)

And the Oscar Goes To...

(Self (archive footage))

Poitier's Walter Lee

(Self (archive footage))

Nationtime

(Self - Narrator)

The Madding Crowd

(Self (archive footage))

Mr. SOUL!

(Self (archive footage))

I Am Not Your Negro

(Various Roles (archive footage))

Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light

The Philco Television Playhouse

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

(Self)

The Oscars

(Self)

The Kennedy Center Honors

(Self)

Children of the Dust

(Gypsy Smith)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

(Self)

Separate but Equal

(Thurgood Marshall)

Tony Awards

(Self - Presenter)

The Philco Television Playhouse

(Tommy Tyler)

Cinépanorama

(Self)

The Dick Cavett Show

(Self - Guest)

Omnibus

Golden Globe Awards

(Self - Winner)