Sidney Poitier
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 Whos 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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