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4 days ago · Sidney Poitier ( PWAH-tyay; 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.
4 days ago · Claudia McNeil (August 13, 1917 – November 25, 1993) was an American actress known for premiering the role of matriarch Lena Younger in both the stage and screen productions of A Raisin in the Sun .
4 days ago · Sidney Poitier on Film. In Memoriam – 1927-2022. DVD. No way out [1950] Joseph L Mankiewicz. DVD. Blackboard jungle [2005] Pandro S Berman. DVD. Edge of the city [2009]
4 days ago · He is best known for his novels Erasure (2001), I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009), and The Trees (2021), which was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. Erasure was adapted as the film American Fiction (2023), written and directed by Cord Jefferson, starring Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, and Leslie Uggams.
4 days ago · The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn is a 1999 American television film featuring Sidney Poitier as a reclusive carpenter living without modern amenities in rural Georgia. The plot revolves around his resistance against a developer's attempts to displace him from his land, with the support of his psychologist girlfriend.
4 days ago · After turning down the lead role in Universal-International's Away All Boats, his next project was the Warner Bros. production Band of Angels (1957), co-starring Yvonne De Carlo and featuring relative newcomer Sidney Poitier; it was not well received, despite Gable's role's similarities to Rhett Butler.
6 days ago · Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte. Deutschland 2022. Schauspielerisches Ausnahmetalent und Brückenbauer zwischen Schwarz und Weiß, politische Ikone und Künstler zugleich: Das ist Sidney Poitier.
