Sir Sidney Poitier, the first Black man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, has died at age 94.
Bahamas Minister of Foreign Affairs Fred Mitchell confirmed the actor’s passing, saying, “We’ve lost a great a Bahamian and I’ve lost a personal friend.” (A native of Cat Island in the Bahamas, Poitier at one time served as a Bahamian ambassador to Japan and Unesco.)...
Bahamas Minister of Foreign Affairs Fred Mitchell confirmed the actor’s passing, saying, “We’ve lost a great a Bahamian and I’ve lost a personal friend.” (A native of Cat Island in the Bahamas, Poitier at one time served as a Bahamian ambassador to Japan and Unesco.)...
- 1/7/2022
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Here's the original trailer for director Norman Jewison's Best Picture Oscar winner for 1967. "In the Heat of the Night" also won Rod Steiger a Best Actor Oscar. Sidney Poitier's Virgil Tibbs proved to be so popular that United Artists brought him back in the sequels "They Call Me Mister Tibbs!" and "The Organization".
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- 9/8/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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