Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier the renowned Hollywood icon director and activist who commanded the screen reshaped the culture and paved the way for countless other Black actors with stirring performances in. The news was announced by the Bahamian Minister of Foreign Affairs Fred Mitchell prompting tributes.

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7 hours agoSidney Poitier played a worker who helps a group of nuns in the Arizona desert construct a chapel in the 1963 film Lilies of the Field The performance earned Poitier the Academy Award for best.

. Disliking Army life Poitier attempted to fake insanity in. The Hollywood star was known for films including Guess Whos Coming to Dinner In the Heat of the Night and Lilies of the Field for which he became the first Black and Bahamian man to win a Best Actor Oscar. In November 1943 16-year-old Sidney Poitier lied about his age and entered the Army as he was homeless and the military took him in out of the cold.

10 hours agoCNN Sidney Poitier whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywoods first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar has died. Sidney Poitier has died aged 94. 9 hours agoActor Sidney Poitier has died at 94 Poitier was the first African American to win a Best Actor Oscar for 1963s Lilies of the FieldHis good looks and smooth commanding presence made him an icon.

He served as a medical attendant at a mental hospital in New York. 10 hours agoLegendary actor Sidney Poitier whose 71-year career included iconic roles in the classic Hollywood films A Raisin in the Sun Guess Whos Coming to Dinner and Uptown Saturday Night has.

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