Sidney Poitier
Birthday: 1927-02-20 | Place of Birth: Miami, Florida, USASidney 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.
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as Henry Cobb
as Noah Dearborn
as Will Cleamons
as Dr. Jack Miller
as Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
as Carter Preston
as Nelson Mandela
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as Mark Thackeray
as Gypsy Smith
as Crease
as Thurgood Marshall
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as Warren Stantin
