Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier KBE (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. He received 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. Poitier was one of the last major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sidney Poitier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- The Jackal 6.4 339 Film
- Sneakers 6.9 312 Film
- Shoot to Kill 6.6 229 Film
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 7.6 205 Film
- In the Heat of the Night 7.6 242 Film
- To Sir, with Love 7.5 208 Film
- The Bedford Incident 7.0 168 Film
- A Raisin in the Sun 7.6 225 Film
- The Defiant Ones 7.2 259 Film
- Blackboard Jungle 6.9 137 Film