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Jan 7, 2022 · 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 94.
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- Brandon Griggs
Jan 7, 2022 · Sidney Poitier, trailblazing star who helped break down Hollywood color barriers, dies at 94. Sidney Poitier, who made history as the first Black man to win the Oscar for lead actor and starred in ...
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- Dennis McLellan
Jan 7, 2022 · 7 January 2022. Reuters. Sidney Poitier was a trailblazing actor who broke through Hollywood's racial barriers. Sidney Poitier, the first black man to win a best actor Oscar, has died at 94. The ...
Jan 14, 2022 · Sidney Poitier is slapped by this white man, and rather than stand there and take it, he slaps him right back! Just instantly. It is a physics response. It is the most automatic thing. He doesn ...
Jan 7, 2022 · Sidney Poitier married Joanna Shimkus, a Canadian actress, in 1976, and he told PEOPLE in 2016 that "my wife and my children mean the most to me". Sidney Poitier and Joanna Shimkus shared a ...
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- Benjamin VanHoose
Mar 3, 2022 · In the 1950s and '60s, Sidney Poitier won international fame as a film actor and transformed the image of African Americans in the cinema. Although others had enjoyed success in character roles or as musical performers, Poitier won fame as a dramatic actor and romantic leading man, embodying an entire people's struggle for social equality.
Jan 7, 2022 · Sidney Poitier, Regal Star of the Big Screen, Dies at 94. The Oscar-winning actor, memorable in such films as 'Lilies of the Field,' 'To Sir, With Love' and 'In the Heat of the Night,' broke ...
