Sidney Poitier

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. 1 day agoSidney Poitier and John Cassavetes in 1957s Edge of the City Getty Images While Poitiers career is legendary his private life wasnt as glamorous.

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He received his award for playing Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field 1963 at The 36th Annual Academy Awards 1964.

. The news was announced by the Bahamian minister of foreign affairs Fred Mitchell prompting tributes from the world of entertainment. Poitier was 44 years old at the time. With the death of Maximilian Schell on February 1 2014 he is the earliest surviving actor to have won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Sidney Poitier has died aged 94. The Life of Sidney Poitier A Great Luminary Figure-Sidney Poitier is a Bahamian-American actor born and brought up in the Bahamas and later came to the US as a teenager. The Acadamy Award winners death was confirmed by Bahamas Minister of Foreign Affairs Fred.

He is an actor director film producer and diplomat. 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. Poitier was a Bahamian-American actor who appeared in more than 50 films was an Oscar winner and a great trailblazer in Hollywood.

1 day agoLILIES of the Field actor Sidney Poitier the first black man to win a Best Actor Oscar has passed away at 94. 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.

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