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Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier, born in 1927, American motion-picture actor, the first black to become a major Hollywood star. Born in Miami, Florida, Poitier began acting with the American Negro Theater and made his movie debut in 1950 with a featured role in No Way Out, one of Hollywood's first films on racial bigotry. His next important credit was Blackboard Jungle (1955). The Defiant Ones (1958) brought Poitier an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of an escaped convict. Poitier won an Oscar five years later for Lilies of the Field (1963), in which he played a drifter who becomes a reluctant mainstay to a group of émigré nuns.
Poitier was hailed as the box-office star of 1967 for his charismatic work on three popular films: In the Heat of the Night; To Sir, with Love; and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. He did not appear in any movies from 1976 to 1987, preferring to direct (Buck and the Preacher, 1972; Uptown Saturday Night, 1974, and its sequel Let's Do It Again, 1975; and Stir Crazy, 1980). He played Thurgood Marshall in the 1991 Emmy Award-winning Separate But Equal.
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Sidney Poitier
An American actor, Sidney Poitier became the first major black Hollywood star. He won the Academy Award for best actor in 1963 for his role in Lilies of the Field.
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