Biography: life and films
Sidney Poitier is an American actor and film director. He was born in Miami, Florida, USA on 20th February 1927.His best films as an actor include Stanley Kramer's The Defiant Ones (1958), Daniel Petrie's A Raisin in the Sun (1961), Guy Green's A Patch of Blue (1965), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and Norman Jewison's In the Heat of the Night (1967), and whose best work as a film director include Let's Do It Again (1975), A Piece of the Action (1977) and Stir Crazy (1980).
Sidney Poitier has so far appeared in 46 films and directed 9 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Ralph Nelson (3 films), Stanley Kramer (2), Richard Brooks (2) and Martin Ritt (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (33 films), comedy (7), Thriller (7), romance (4), crime-thriller (4), Documentary (3), comedy-romance (2), comedy-drama (2), Western (2), War (2) and Biography (2).
Our average rating for Sidney Poitier over all films is: 3.0
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer
No Way Out (1950) [a]
Cry, the Beloved Country (1951) [a]
Red Ball Express (1952) [a]
Go Man Go (1954) [a]
Blackboard Jungle (1955) [a]
Good-bye, My Lady (1956) [a]
Band of Angels (1957) [a]
Edge of the City (1957) [a]
Something of Value (1957) [a]
The Mark of the Hawk (1957) [a]
Virgin Island (1958) [a]
Porgy and Bess (1959) [a]
All the Young Men (1960) [a]
A Raisin in the Sun (1961) [a]
Paris Blues (1961) [a]
Pressure Point (1962) [a]
Lilies of the Field (1963) [a]
The Long Ships (1964) [a]
A Patch of Blue (1965) [a]
The Bedford Incident (1965) [a]
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) [a]
The Slender Thread (1965) [a]
Duel at Diablo (1966) [a]
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) [a]
In the Heat of the Night (1967) [a]
For Love of Ivy (1968) [a,w]
The Lost Man (1969) [a]
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970) [a]
They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! (1970) [a]
Brother John (1971) [a]
The Organization (1971) [a]
Buck and the Preacher (1972) [a,d]
A Warm December (1973) [a,d]
Uptown Saturday Night (1974) [a,d]
Let's Do It Again (1975) [a,d]
The Wilby Conspiracy (1975) [a]
A Piece of the Action (1977) [a,d]
Stir Crazy (1980) [d]
Hanky Panky (1982) [d]
Fast Forward (1985) [d]
Little Nikita (1988) [a]
Shoot to Kill (1988) [a]
Ghost Dad (1990) [d]
Sneakers (1992) [a]
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1995) [a]
The Jackal (1997) [a]
Founding Fathers: Sir Stafford Sands (2009) [a]
Des étoiles (2013) [a]
The best of British film comedies
The best films of Ingmar Bergman
The best of Japanese cinema
