credits of
Sidney Poitier
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.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
April 9th, 2026 | The Resurrection of Christ | TBD | TBD | |
July 30th, 2023 | Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback | Self (archive footage) | 6.5 | |
January 23rd, 2023 | Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 3 | |
November 9th, 2022 | A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story | Self | TBD | |
September 10th, 2022 | Sidney | Self | 7.3 | |
September 25th, 2018 | Poitier's Walter Lee | Self (archive footage) | TBD | |
April 27th, 2018 | Mr. SOUL! | Self (archive footage) | 7 | |
October 14th, 2017 | Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart | Self | 6.2 | |
February 1st, 2017 | The Madding Crowd | Self (archive footage) | TBD | |
April 20th, 2013 | Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley | Self | 6.7 | |
January 1st, 2013 | Martin Luther King and the March on Washington | Self | 10 | |
January 13th, 2012 | Sing Your Song | Self | 6.9 | |
October 13th, 2007 | Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project | Self | 6.8 | |
January 1st, 2004 | Hollywood Legenden | Self | 4.5 | |
June 3rd, 2003 | The Making of ‘Sneakers’ | Self | 7.5 | |
November 18th, 2001 | Quincy Jones: In the Pocket | Self | 10 | |
September 23rd, 2001 | The Last Brickmaker in America | Henry Cobb | 8 | |
June 29th, 2000 | Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters | Self | TBD | |
February 2nd, 2000 | Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light | TBD | 6.7 | |
May 9th, 1999 | The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn | Noah Dearborn | 6.2 | |
February 21st, 1999 | Free of Eden | Will Cleamons | 9.7 | |
November 1st, 1998 | David and Lisa | Dr. Jack Miller | 6 | |
January 1st, 1998 | Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist | Reverend Msimangu (archive footage) | 8.3 | |
November 14th, 1997 | The Jackal | Carter Preston | 6.4 | |
February 16th, 1997 | Mandela and de Klerk | Nelson Mandela | 7 | |
January 31st, 1997 | Afro Promo | Self (archive footage) | 8 | |
April 7th, 1996 | To Sir, with Love II | Mark Thackeray | 6.4 | |
January 1st, 1995 | Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick | Self | 8.3 | |
September 9th, 1992 | Sneakers | Crease | 6.9 | |
April 7th, 1991 | Separate But Equal | Thurgood Marshall | 6.5 | |
March 17th, 1988 | Little Nikita | Roy Parmenter | 6.1 | |
February 12th, 1988 | Shoot to Kill | Warren Stantin | 6.6 | |
January 3rd, 1988 | Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night | Self - Audience Member | 7.6 | |
March 9th, 1986 | The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn | Self | 8.3 | |
March 10th, 1985 | Night of 100 Stars II | Self | 8 | |
January 7th, 1984 | I Love Quincy | Self | TBD | |
October 29th, 1979 | Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist | Narrator (voice) | 7.3 | |
October 7th, 1977 | A Piece of the Action | Manny Durrell | 5.8 | |
October 11th, 1975 | Let's Do It Again | Clyde Williams | 7 | |
February 1st, 1975 | The Wilby Conspiracy | Shack Twala | 6.4 | |
July 26th, 1974 | Uptown Saturday Night | Steve Jackson | 6.2 | |
May 23rd, 1973 | A Warm December | Dr. Matt Younger | 6.5 | |
November 1st, 1972 | Nationtime | Self - Narrator | 8 | |
March 17th, 1972 | Buck and the Preacher | Buck | 6.3 | |
October 20th, 1971 | The Organization | Virgil Tibbs | 6.3 | |
August 15th, 1971 | Brother John | John Kane | 6.4 | |
July 10th, 1970 | They Call Me Mister Tibbs! | Virgil Tibbs | 5.9 | |
March 24th, 1970 | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage) | 7.3 | |
July 11th, 1969 | The Lost Man | Jason Higgs | 4.2 | |
March 10th, 1969 | Three Young Americans in Search of Survival | Himself | TBD | |
July 17th, 1968 | For Love of Ivy | Jack Parks | 6.2 | |
December 11th, 1967 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | John Prentice | 7.6 | |
August 2nd, 1967 | In the Heat of the Night | Virgil Tibbs | 7.7 | |
June 14th, 1967 | To Sir, with Love | Mark Thackeray | 7.5 | |
June 15th, 1966 | Duel at Diablo | Toller | 6.4 | |
February 4th, 1966 | The Strolling '20s | Self | TBD | |
December 15th, 1965 | The Slender Thread | Alan Newell | 7.1 | |
December 10th, 1965 | A Patch of Blue | Gordon Ralfe | 7.6 | |
October 11th, 1965 | The Bedford Incident | Ben Munceford | 7 | |
April 9th, 1965 | The Greatest Story Ever Told | Simon of Cyrene | 6.4 | |
January 1st, 1965 | A Cinderella Named Elizabeth | Self | 7 | |
March 25th, 1964 | The Long Ships | Aly Mansuh | 6.1 | |
June 4th, 1963 | Lilies of the Field | Homer Smith | 7.2 | |
October 10th, 1962 | Pressure Point | Doctor | 6.5 | |
September 27th, 1961 | Paris Blues | Eddie Cook | 6.5 | |
May 28th, 1961 | A Raisin in the Sun | Walter Lee Younger | 7.7 | |
August 26th, 1960 | All the Young Men | Sgt. Eddie Towler | 6.7 | |
August 7th, 1959 | Virgin Island | Marcus | 6.3 | |
June 24th, 1959 | Porgy and Bess | Porgy | 6.3 | |
August 14th, 1958 | The Defiant Ones | Noah Cullen | 7.1 | |
December 1st, 1957 | The Mark of the Hawk | Obam | 3.4 | |
August 3rd, 1957 | Band of Angels | Rau-Ru | 6.3 | |
May 8th, 1957 | Something of Value | Kimani Wa Karanja | 5.5 | |
January 4th, 1957 | Edge of the City | Tommy Tyler | 7.2 | |
May 12th, 1956 | Good-bye, My Lady | Gates Watson | 7.8 | |
October 2nd, 1955 | A Man Is Ten Feet Tall | Tommy Tyler | TBD | |
March 25th, 1955 | Blackboard Jungle | Gregory W. Miller | 6.9 | |
January 27th, 1954 | Go Man Go | Inman Jackson | 5.4 | |
May 29th, 1952 | The Red Ball Express | Robertson | 5.9 | |
November 16th, 1951 | Cry, the Beloved Country | Reverend Msimangu | 6.3 | |
August 16th, 1950 | No Way Out | Luther Brooks | 6.9 | |
July 25th, 1947 | Sepia Cinderella | Nightclub Extra (uncredited) | 5.2 |