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  1. 19 hours ago · Sidney Poitier’s directorial debut is one of the most flat-out entertaining Westerns ever made, largely thanks to the hilarious camaraderie between Poitier (as a taciturn wagon master) and Harry ...

  2. 1 day ago · Sidney Poitier’s career began on the stage, but he quickly transitioned to film, starring in notable movies like “No Way Out” (1950) and “Blackboard Jungle” (1955). He faced the challenge of portraying complex characters in a time when Black actors were often relegated to stereotypical roles.

  3. 5 days ago · Sidney Poitier, here interviewed on 'Woman's Hour' in 1961, talks about family life, his Bahamian roots and his first steps towards becoming an actor.

  4. 19 hours ago · Coming off the Hulu release of Andrew McCarthy’s Brat Pack doc, Brats, Network Entertainment’s other recent releases include the Sidney Poitier documentary, Sidney, for Apple TV+; the four ...

  5. 2 days ago · Lilies of the Field, starring Sidney Poitier in his Oscar-winning role as Homer Smith, is an offbeat but quaint film released in 1963. Homer is on a road trip across Arizona where he encounters a group of women religious — nuns from Germany, Austria and Hungary.

  6. 5 days ago · As the Civil Rights Act was being passed in 1964, Poitier won the leading actor Oscar for the 1963 Lilies of the Field, a low-budget film about an itinerant handyman who helped German nuns to ...

  7. 4 days ago · Burt Lancaster won for Elmer Gantry (1960) Sidney Poitier won for Lillies of the Field (1963) Peter O'Toole won twice for Becket (1964), and The Lion in Winter (1968) Omar Sharif won for Doctor Zhivago (1965) Paul Scofield won for A Man for All Seasons (1966) George C. Scott won for Patton (1970)

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