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Sidney Poitier (born February 20, 1927) is an American actor. He was born in Miami, Florida and grew up on Cat Island in the Bahamas. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1963 film Lilies of the Field and was the first African-American actor to win this award. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2002.
His other films include:*The Defiant Ones, for which he won the British Academy Award for Best Actor in 1958.*Porgy and Bess, based on the famous opera, in the title role of Porgy along side
Dorothy Dandridge as Bess. His on-screen singing voice was provided by opera singer Robert McFerrin, father of Bobby McFerrin.*Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, a film about an inter-racial romance and a white liberal's reaction to it*A Patch of Blue, about a blind white girl and a black man who is moved to help her to a better life*To Sir, with Love, a fact-based movie about a young teacher in an inner-city neighbourhood*In the Heat of the Night about a murder investigation in a small Mississippi town.
He acted in the first run of "Raisin in the Sun" on Broadway in 1959, and in its Hollywood adaptation in 1961.
In addition to authoring
This Life (1980) and
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (2000), Poitier has also served as the Bahamian ambassador to Japan since April of 1997.
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