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  1. Sidney Poitier filmography. Sidney Poitier (1927–2022) was an actor and director. He was best known for his groundbreaking and trailblazing work in the 1950s and 1960s. His breakthrough performances in film include The Defiant Ones (1958), Porgy and Bess (1959), A Raisin in the Sun (1961), Paris Blues (1961), Lilies of the Field (1963), A ...

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    2022
    Himself (posthumous appearance)
    2008
    Himself
    2004
    Tell Them Who You Are
    Himself
    2001
    Henry Cobb
  2. 9 titles. Sort by List order. 1. No Way Out. 1950 1h 46m Approved. 7.4 (6.3K) Rate. Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder. Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz Stars Richard Widmark Linda Darnell Stephen McNally. 2. The Defiant Ones.

  3. Reverend Msimangu (Sidney Poitier) is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.

  4. Poitier made his directorial film debut with Buck and the Preacher (1972) followed by A Warm December (1973), Uptown Saturday Night (1974), and Stir Crazy (1980). He later starred in Shoot to Kill (1988) and Sneakers (1992). Poitier was granted an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II in 1974.

    • No Way Out (1950) Poitier got his first Hollywood break playing the only Black intern in a white urban hospital who has to treat a racist criminal (Richard Widmark) in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's liberal message movie/film noir hybrid.
    • Blackboard Jungle (1955) He's "a little brighter and a little smarter than the rest of those guys," teacher Glenn Ford observes of the teenaged delinquent Poitier plays in this breakthrough hit (no wonder — he was 28!).
    • Edge of the City (1957) All but forgotten now, Martin Ritt's early film was called "a milestone in the screen presentation of an American Negro" by Variety.
    • The Defiant Ones (1958) Acting opposite Tony Curtis, Poitier made history — not for the last time — by scoring a Best Actor Oscar nomination, the first ever for a Black man, in Stanley Kramer's tight, energetic thriller about two escaped convicts on the run who, shackled together at the wrists, need to trust and help each other in order to survive.
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  6. Jan 10, 2022 · Sidney Poitier: Where to Stream 19 of the Late Actor's Most Iconic Films. From In the Heat of the Night to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, here's where to stream the filmography of Sidney...

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  7. Jan 7, 2022 · The Defiant Ones. Acting. Directing. Production. Writing. All. Department. Sidney Poitier KBE (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.

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