Sidney Poitier
1927-02-20
Miami, Florida, USA
ACTING
Biography
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Filmography:
Sepia Cinderella (1947)
APPEREAD AS:Nightclub Extra (uncredited)
No Way Out (1950)
APPEREAD AS:Luther Brooks
Cry, the Beloved Country (1951)
APPEREAD AS:Reverend Msimangu
The Red Ball Express (1952)
APPEREAD AS:Robertson
Go Man Go (1954)
APPEREAD AS:Inman Jackson
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
APPEREAD AS:Gregory W. Miller
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall (1955)
APPEREAD AS:Tommy Tyler
Good-bye, My Lady (1956)
APPEREAD AS:Gates Watson
Edge of the City (1957)
APPEREAD AS:Tommy Tyler
Band of Angels (1957)
APPEREAD AS:Rau-Ru
Something of Value (1957)
APPEREAD AS:Kimani Wa Karanja
The Mark of the Hawk (1957)
APPEREAD AS:Obam
The Defiant Ones (1958)
APPEREAD AS:Noah Cullen
Porgy and Bess (1959)
APPEREAD AS:Porgy
Virgin Island (1959)
APPEREAD AS:Marcus
All the Young Men (1960)
APPEREAD AS:Sgt. Eddie Towler
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
APPEREAD AS:Walter Lee Younger
Paris Blues (1961)
APPEREAD AS:Eddie Cook
Pressure Point (1962)
APPEREAD AS:Doctor
Lilies of the Field (1963)
APPEREAD AS:Homer Smith
The Long Ships (1964)
APPEREAD AS:Aly Mansuh
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
APPEREAD AS:Simon of Cyrene
The Bedford Incident (1965)
APPEREAD AS:Ben Munceford
A Patch of Blue (1965)
APPEREAD AS:Gordon Ralfe
The Slender Thread (1965)
APPEREAD AS:Alan Newell
Duel at Diablo (1966)
APPEREAD AS:Toller
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
APPEREAD AS:John Prentice
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
APPEREAD AS:Virgil Tibbs
To Sir, with Love (1967)
APPEREAD AS:Mark Thackeray
For Love of Ivy (1968)
APPEREAD AS:Jack ParksWORK AS:Original Story
The Lost Man (1969)
APPEREAD AS:Jason Higgs
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970)
APPEREAD AS:Virgil Tibbs
The Organization (1971)
APPEREAD AS:Virgil Tibbs
Brother John (1971)
APPEREAD AS:John Kane
Buck and the Preacher (1972)
APPEREAD AS:BuckWORK AS:Producer, Director
A Warm December (1973)
APPEREAD AS:Dr. Matt YoungerWORK AS:Director
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
APPEREAD AS:Steve JacksonWORK AS:Director
The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
APPEREAD AS:Shack Twala
Let's Do It Again (1975)
APPEREAD AS:Clyde WilliamsWORK AS:Director
A Piece of the Action (1977)
APPEREAD AS:Manny DurrellWORK AS:Director
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979)
APPEREAD AS:Narrator (voice)
Stir Crazy (1980)
WORK AS:Director
Hanky Panky (1982)
WORK AS:Director
Fast Forward (1985)
WORK AS:Director
Shoot to Kill (1988)
APPEREAD AS:Warren Stantin
Little Nikita (1988)
APPEREAD AS:Roy Parmenter
Ghost Dad (1990)
WORK AS:Director
Separate but Equal (1991)
APPEREAD AS:Thurgood MarshallSeparate But Equal (1991)
APPEREAD AS:Thurgood Marshall
Sneakers (1992)
APPEREAD AS:Crease
Children of the Dust (1995)
APPEREAD AS:Gypsy Smith
To Sir, with Love II (1996)
APPEREAD AS:Mark Thackeray
The Jackal (1997)
APPEREAD AS:Carter Preston
Mandela and de Klerk (1997)
APPEREAD AS:Nelson Mandela
David and Lisa (1998)
APPEREAD AS:Dr. Jack Miller
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist (1998)
APPEREAD AS:Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999)
APPEREAD AS:Noah Dearborn
Free of Eden (1999)
APPEREAD AS:Will Cleamons
The Last Brickmaker in America (2001)
APPEREAD AS:Henry Cobb
I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
APPEREAD AS:Various Roles (archive footage)
Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte (2023)
APPEREAD AS:(archive footage)
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