Sidney Poitier KBE (/ˈpwɑːtjeɪ/ PWAH-tyay; February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964... 98 KB (8,398 words) - 23:30, 19 April 2024 |
I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009) is a novel by American writer Percival Everett. Originally published by Graywolf Press, in 2020, it was published by Influx... 14 KB (2,105 words) - 19:48, 27 March 2024 |
Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian-American actor known for his appearances on the stage and screen. He became the first Black actor to win the Academy Award... 15 KB (592 words) - 10:40, 7 December 2023 |
Canadian film actress. She is the widow of actor Sidney Poitier and mother of actress Sydney Tamiia Poitier. Joanna Marie Shimkus was born in Halifax, Nova... 6 KB (431 words) - 04:20, 24 August 2023 |
written by William Rose. It stars Spencer Tracy (in his final role), Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Hepburn, and features Hepburn's niece Katharine Houghton... 42 KB (4,477 words) - 01:54, 11 March 2024 |
Sidney is a 2022 American documentary film directed by Reginald Hudlin. The film is a portrait of the life and legacy of actor Sidney Poitier in his final... 4 KB (208 words) - 21:51, 27 February 2024 |
produced by Walter Mirisch, and starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. It tells the story of Virgil Tibbs (Poitier), a Black police detective from Philadelphia... 41 KB (4,186 words) - 21:52, 14 April 2024 |
and who must co-operate in order to survive. It stars Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier. The film was adapted by Harold Jacob Smith from the story by Nedrick... 21 KB (1,976 words) - 05:11, 24 March 2024 |
World. Poitier's first real acting job was a stunt performer on Sheena. Poitier practices Universalism. He is unsure if he is related to Sidney Poitier, but... 7 KB (201 words) - 17:01, 24 February 2024 |
total performances. Directed by Lloyd Richards, the cast comprised: Sidney Poitier – Walter Lee Younger Ruby Dee – Ruth Younger Ivan Dixon – Joseph Asagai... 31 KB (3,515 words) - 05:43, 4 April 2024 |
Benjamin and starring River Phoenix and Sidney Poitier. The film marks the first collaboration between Phoenix and Poitier (the second being Sneakers in 1992)... 7 KB (680 words) - 06:58, 11 January 2024 |
Green about the friendship between an educated black man (played by Sidney Poitier) and an illiterate, blind, white 18-year-old girl (played by Elizabeth... 18 KB (1,936 words) - 19:16, 3 April 2024 |
Uptown Saturday Night (category Films directed by Sidney Poitier) Wesley and directed by and starring Sidney Poitier, with Bill Cosby and Harry Belafonte co-starring. Cosby and Poitier teamed up again for Let's Do It Again... 17 KB (1,988 words) - 18:37, 28 March 2024 |
Temple, Lauren Bacall, Kirk Douglas (the longest-lived star at 103) and Sidney Poitier were alive, but have since died. At 89 in 2024, Sophia Loren is the... 26 KB (2,282 words) - 17:05, 19 April 2024 |
examined race relations and featured In the Heat of the Night star Sidney Poitier. Raised in Freeport, New York (on Long Island), he was a pre‐med student... 8 KB (786 words) - 15:34, 3 February 2024 |
deals with social and racial issues in an inner city school. It stars Sidney Poitier and features Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall, Patricia... 21 KB (2,382 words) - 21:49, 13 April 2024 |
Buck and the Preacher (category Films directed by Sidney Poitier) directed by Sidney Poitier. Poitier also stars in the film alongside Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee. This is the first film Sidney Poitier directed. Vincent... 17 KB (2,097 words) - 23:12, 6 April 2024 |
a 1961 American drama film directed by Daniel Petrie, and starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Roy Glenn, and Louis Gossett... 8 KB (813 words) - 14:20, 31 March 2024 |
Best Supporting Actress nominees were born outside the United States. Sidney Poitier became the first African American actor to win Best Actor, and was practically... 25 KB (805 words) - 02:53, 18 March 2024 |
convinced a number of people in the 1980s that he was the son of actor Sidney Poitier. In October 1983, Hampton came to the New York apartment of Inger McCabe... 7 KB (668 words) - 22:40, 2 February 2024 |
directed by Pat Jackson and starring John Cassavetes, Virginia Maskell and Sidney Poitier. It is an adaptation of the memoir Our Virgin Island by Robb White and... 4 KB (466 words) - 16:50, 19 April 2023 |
Organization (1971). The film's title was taken from a line in the first film. Sidney Poitier reprised his role of police detective Virgil Tibbs, though in this sequel... 9 KB (922 words) - 04:05, 24 October 2023 |