
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013
as Self
Also known as: Sir Sidney Poitier, Sidney L. Poitier
Acting
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.

2013
as Self

1999
as Will Cleamons

2001
as Self

2023
as Self (archive footage)

1995
as Self

1972
as Self - Narrator

1986
as Self

1998
as Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)

1956
as Gates Watson

1961
as Walter Lee Younger

1967
as Virgil Tibbs

2001
as Henry Cobb

1965
as Gordon Ralfe

2022
as Self

1967
as John Prentice

1988
as Self - Audience Member

1967
as Mark Thackeray

1963
as Homer Smith

1979
as Narrator (voice)

1958
as Noah Cullen

1965
as Alan Newell

1957
as Tommy Tyler

1965
as Self

2018
as Self (archive footage)

1965
as Ben Munceford

1955
as Gregory W. Miller

1992
as Crease

1975
Director

2012
as Self

1950
as Luther Brooks

2013
as Self

1988
as Warren Stantin

1991
as Thurgood Marshall

1997
as Nelson Mandela

2023
as Self (archive footage)

1962
as Doctor

1980
Director

1961
as Eddie Cook

1996
as Mark Thackeray

1973
Director

1997
as Carter Preston

1975
as Shack Twala

1960
as Sgt. Eddie Towler

1966
as Toller

1972
Director

1957
as Rau-Ru

1971
as John Kane

2017
as Self

1951
as Reverend Msimangu

1959
as Porgy

1974
Director

1971
as Virgil Tibbs

1988
as Roy Parmenter

1964
as Aly Mansuh

2000

1968
as Jack Parks

1952
as Robertson

1999
as Noah Dearborn

1970
as Virgil Tibbs

1998
as Dr. Jack Miller

1954
as Inman Jackson

1977
Director

1957
as Kimani Wa Karanja

1982
Director

1985
Director

1990
Director

2003
as Self

1959
as Marcus

1947
as Nightclub Extra (uncredited)

1969
as Jason Higgs

1957
as Obam
2004
as Self

2022
as Self
1984
as Self

2017
as Self (archive footage)
1969
as Himself

1966
as Self

1997
as Self (archive footage)

2018
as Self (archive footage)

2000
as Self

1955
as Tommy Tyler
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