Sidney Poitier KBE (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he became the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Lilies of the Field. Other accolades include two competitive Golden Globe Awards, a competitive British Academy of Film and Television Arts award (BAFTA), and a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album. Major films featuring Poitier in a starring role include Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Defiant Ones (1958), To Sir, with Love (1967), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), In the Heat of the Night (1967), Sneakers (1992), and The Jackal (1997). Later in his career, he turned to directing with features such as Buck and the Preacher (1972), Uptown Saturday Night (1974), Stir Crazy (1980), and Ghost Dad (1990). At the time of his death, Poitier was one of the last major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Remembering Gene Wilder (2024) | Self (archive photos) | 8 |
| 2 | Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback (2023) | Self (archive footage) | 7 |
| 3 | Sidney (2022) | Self | - |
| 4 | Mr. SOUL! (2018) | Self (archive footage) | - |
| 5 | Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley (2013) | Self | 7 |
| 6 | Sing Your Song (2012) | Self | 7 |
| 7 | Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007) | Self | - |
| 8 | David and Lisa (1998) | Dr. Jack Miller | - |
| 9 | The Jackal (1997) | Carter Preston | 6.5 |
| 10 | Sneakers (1992) | Crease | 7.5 |
| 11 | Ghost Dad (1990) | Director / Writer | 6.5 |
| 12 | Little Nikita (1988) | Roy Parmenter | 6 |
| 13 | Shoot to Kill (1988) | Warren Stantin | 7 |
| 14 | Hanky Panky (1982) | Director / Writer | - |
| 15 | Stir Crazy (1980) | Director / Writer | 6.3 |
| 16 | Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979) | Narrator (voice) | 9 |
| 17 | A Piece of the Action (1977) | Director / Writer | - |
| 18 | Let's Do It Again (1975) | Director / Writer | 8 |
| 19 | The Wilby Conspiracy (1975) | Shack Twala | - |
| 20 | Uptown Saturday Night (1974) | Director / Writer | 7.5 |
| 21 | Buck and the Preacher (1972) | Director / Writer | 7 |
| 22 | They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970) | Virgil Tibbs | 7 |
| 23 | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970) | Self (archive footage) | 10 |
| 24 | To Sir, with Love (1967) | Mark Thackeray | 8 |
| 25 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) | John Prentice | 6 |
| 26 | In the Heat of the Night (1967) | Virgil Tibbs | 7.6 |
| 27 | A Patch of Blue (1965) | Gordon Ralfe | 8 |
| 28 | The Slender Thread (1965) | Alan Newell | - |
| 29 | The Bedford Incident (1965) | Ben Munceford | 6 |
| 30 | The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) | Simon of Cyrene | - |
| 31 | Lilies of the Field (1963) | Homer Smith | 8 |
| 32 | Pressure Point (1962) | Doctor | - |
| 33 | A Raisin in the Sun (1961) | Walter Lee Younger | 8 |
| 34 | Paris Blues (1961) | Eddie Cook | 6 |
| 35 | Porgy and Bess (1959) | Porgy | 5 |
| 36 | The Defiant Ones (1958) | Noah Cullen | 7 |
| 37 | Edge of the City (1957) | Tommy Tyler | 5 |
| 38 | Band of Angels (1957) | Rau-Ru | 5 |
| 39 | Blackboard Jungle (1955) | Gregory W. Miller | - |
| 40 | No Way Out (1950) | Luther Brooks | - |
