Sidney Poitier
He is the first African American to be nominated and win a Best Actor Academy Award a White House announcement at the time read. 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.
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He has starred in many films and also directed many films which were super hits.
. Sidney Poitier has died aged 94. He is one of the greatest Male actors of Classic Hollywood Cinema. He served as a medical attendant at a mental hospital in New York.
He is an actor director film producer and diplomat. 12 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. 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.
The news was announced by the Bahamian minister of foreign affairs Fred Mitchell prompting tributes from the world of entertainment. 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. 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.
Disliking Army life Poitier attempted to fake insanity in. 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. 11 hours agoSidney Poitier is an actor known for breaking racial barriers.
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