Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier was the first black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Leading Actor. February 20 1927 January 6 2022 was a Bahamian-American actor film director and ambassador.
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Disliking Army life Poitier attempted to fake insanity in an attempt to get discharged.
. Sidney Poitier the renowned Hollywood actor director and activist who commanded the screen reshaped the culture and paved the way for countless other Black actors with stirring performances in. Sidney Poitier KBE ˈpwɑːtjeɪ PWAH-tyay. He served as a medical attendant at a mental hospital in New York.
He won the Best Leading Actor Oscar at the 36th Academy Awards for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field. In 1964 he was the first African American and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. 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.
Legendary 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. His breakthrough role was Blackboard Jungle in 1955 it was the first of many in his prolific career. CNN 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.
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