The barrier-breaking actor, who died Friday at 94, had a career that spanned decades and genres.
He was 94 years old.
who will he side with?
Sidney Poitier in No Way Out.Everett Collection
drive Richard Brooks' hit melodrama toward its climax.
(What are they doing there?
What is he doing there?
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“The screen overflows with enough brotherhood… to make even the kindest spectator retch,” complainedNewsweek.
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
Suddenly, for the first time, he seems out of touch.
Sidney Poitier in Edge of the City.John D. Kisch/Separate Cinema Archive/Getty Images
Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones.Everett Collection
Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Jean Dandridge in Porgy and Bess.Mondadori Portfolio by Getty Images
Claudia McNeil and Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun.Everett Collection
Sidney Poitier In ‘Lilies Of The Field’.United Artists/Getty Images
Sidney Poitier in A Patch of Blue.Everett Collection
Sidney Poitier in The Bedford Incident.Everett Collection
Sidney Poitier in To Sir, With Love.Everett Collection
Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger in ‘In the Heat of the Night’.Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images
Katharine Houghton and Sidney Poitier in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.Everett Collection
Sidney Poitier in For Love of Ivy.Everett Collection
Sidney Poitier.Everett Collection (2)
Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte in Uptown Saturday Night.Everett Collection
The Wilby Conspiracy.Everett Collection
A Piece of the Action.Everett Collection
Tom Berenger and Sidney Poitier in Shoot to Kill.Everett Collection
Separate But Equal.Everett Collection
Mandela and De Klerk.Everett Collection
