Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier, KBE (born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian American actor. He was born in Miami, Florida and grew up in poverty on Cat Island in the Bahamas. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1963 film Lilies of the Field and was the first actor of African descent to win this award. Given an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II in 1974. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2002.

Filmography

• From Whence Cometh My Help (1949) (documentary)
• No Way Out (1950)
• Cry, the Beloved Country (1951)
• Red Ball Express (1952)
• Go, Man, Go! (1954)
• Blackboard Jungle (1955)
• Good-bye, My Lady (1956)
• Edge of the City (1957)
• Something of Value (1957)
• Band of Angels (1957)
• Virgin Island (1958)
• The Mark of the Hawk (1958)
• The Defiant Ones (1958)
• Porgy and Bess (1959)
• All the Young Men (1960)
• A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
• Paris Blues (1961)
• Pressure Point (1962)
• The Long Ships (1963)
• Lilies of the Field (1963)
• The Bedford Incident (1965)
• The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
• A Patch of Blue (1965)
• The Slender Thread (1965)
• Duel at Diablo (1966)
• To Sir, with Love (1967)
• In the Heat of the Night (1967)
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
• For Love of Ivy (1968)
• The Lost Man (1969)
• (1970) (documentary) (narrator)
• They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! (1970)
• Brother John (1971)
• The Organization (1971)
• Buck and the Preacher (1972) (also director)
• A Warm December (1973) (also director)
• Uptown Saturday Night (1974) (also director)
• Let's Do It Again (1975) (also director)
• The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
• A Piece of the Action (1977) (also director)
• (1979) (short subject) (narrator)
• Stir Crazy (1980) (director)
• Hanky Panky (1982) (director)
• Fast Forward (1985) (director)
• Bopha! (1986) (documentary) (narrator)
• Shoot to Kill (1988)
• Little Nikita (1988)
• Ghost Dad (1990) (director)
• Sneakers (1992)
• A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
• (1996) (documentary)
• The Jackal (1997)
• (2001) (documentary) (narrator)
• Tell Them Who You Are (2004) (documentary)