Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967
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Jan 19, 2022 · What was Sidney Poitier’s cause of death? Poitier’s cause of death was a combination of heart failure, Alzheimer’s disease and prostate cancer, according to a death certificate obtained by...
Jan 7, 2022 · Sidney Poitier, whose dignity and self-assertion ushered in a new era in the depiction of African-Americans in Hollywood films as the civil rights movement was remaking America, has died, a...
Jan 7, 2022 · Mr. Poitier, who died on Thursday night at his residence in Los Angeles at the age of 94, was the son of tomato farmers on Cat Island, a 150 square mile spindle of land with a population today of...
- Sidney Poitier Was The First Black Man to Win A Best Actor Academy Award
- How Sidney Poitier Became An Actor
- Sidney Poitier's Children, Wives
Among his long list of accolades, Poitier became the first African American actor to be nominated for an Academy Award for best actor (for "The Defiant Ones" in 1958) and six years later became the first Black man to win an Academy Award for best actor, this time for "Lilies of the Field." In Poiter's acceptance speech, he acknowledged the "long jo...
Born in Miami on Feb. 20, 1927, to Bahamian tomato farmers traveling in the U.S. to sell crops, Poitier grew up on Cat Island in the Bahamas before moving to New York City alone at age 16. "I was taught that I had basic rights as a human being. I was taught that I was someone," he told Oprah Winfrey in 2015 of how his upbringing later helped in nav...
Poitier had four daughters with his first wife, Juanita Hardy: Beverly, Pamela, Sherri and Gina. The couple divorced after five years of marriage. Poitier later married former actress Joanna Shimkus in 1976 and had two more daughters, Anika and Sydney. "He is the most wonderful, generous, kind, honest man with the most integrity that I've ever know...
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Jan 7, 2022 · CNN — Sidney Poitier, whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywood’s first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died. He was...
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Jan 8, 2022 · Sidney Poitier has died at the age of 94. He appeared in groundbreaking films that include "A Raisin In The Sun" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." And as NPR's Bob Mondello explains, he...
Jan 8, 2022 · Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen, became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for best lead performance and the first to be a top box-office draw, died Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. He was 94. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, File) Read More. 7 of 10 |.
