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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.

The Resurrection of Christ

Hollywood Black
as Self (archive footage)

Remembering Gene Wilder
as Self (archive photos)

Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
as Self (archive footage)

Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)

A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
as Self

Sidney
as Self

Poitier's Walter Lee
as Self (archive footage)

Mr. SOUL!
as Self (archive footage)

Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
as Self

The Madding Crowd
as Self (archive footage)

Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
as Self

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
as Self

Sing Your Song
as Self

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
as Self
Hollywood Legenden
as Self

The Making of ‘Sneakers’
as Self

Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
as Self

The Last Brickmaker in America
as Henry Cobb

Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
as Self

Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light

The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
as Noah Dearborn

Free of Eden
as Will Cleamons

David and Lisa
as Dr. Jack Miller

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
as Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)

The Jackal
as Carter Preston

Mandela and de Klerk
as Nelson Mandela

Afro Promo
as Self (archive footage)

To Sir, with Love II
as Mark Thackeray

Children of the Dust
as Gypsy Smith

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
as Self

Sneakers
as Crease

Separate But Equal
as Thurgood Marshall

Separate but Equal
as Thurgood Marshall

Little Nikita
as Roy Parmenter

Shoot to Kill
as Warren Stantin

Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
as Self - Audience Member

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
as Self

Night of 100 Stars II
as Self

I Love Quincy
as Self

Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
as Narrator (voice)

The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self

A Piece of the Action
as Manny Durrell

Let's Do It Again
as Clyde Williams

The Wilby Conspiracy
as Shack Twala

Uptown Saturday Night
as Steve Jackson

A Warm December
as Dr. Matt Younger

The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self

Nationtime
as Self - Narrator

Buck and the Preacher
as Buck
Film '72
as Self

The Organization
as Virgil Tibbs

Brother John
as John Kane

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
as Virgil Tibbs

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)

The Lost Man
as Jason Higgs
Three Young Americans in Search of Survival
as Himself

For Love of Ivy
as Jack Parks

The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
as John Prentice