Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier the renowned Hollywood actor director and activist who commanded the screen reshaped the culture and paved the way for countless other Black actors with stirring performances in. 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.

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He is an actor director film producer and diplomat.

. With the death of Maximilian Schell on February 1 2014 he is the earliest surviving actor to have won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Poitier was 44 years old at the time. He received his award for playing Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field 1963 at The 36th Annual Academy Awards 1964.

On June 2 2008. 1 day agoActor Sidney Poitier poses for a portrait in Beverly Hills Calif. The Life of Sidney Poitier A Great Luminary Figure-Sidney Poitier is a Bahamian-American actor born and brought up in the Bahamas and later came to the US as a teenager.

6 2022 in the Bahamas. 1 day agoSidney Poitier whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywoods first Black movie star and the first Black man to. 1 day agoSidney Poitier Patric Knowles and Yvonne De Carlo in Band of Angels FilmPublicityArchiveUnited Arch As she described it was a difficult time in.

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