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Hace 2 días · Sidney Poitier KBE (/ ˈ p w ɑː t j eɪ / PWAH-tyay; February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first Black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor . [2]
Hace 3 días · Sidney Poitier became the first black man to win an Oscar with his best actor award for Lilies of the Field. Poitier beat out Albert Finney (Tom Jones), Richard Harris (This Sporting Life), Rex Harrison (Cleopatra) and Paul Newman (Hud).
Hace 3 días · 2) Martin Luther King, Jr., W.E.B. DuBois, Malcolm X, and Eleanor Roosevelt were among Purlie Victorious’s famous fans. The original 1961 Broadway production of Purlie Victorious had some very ...
Hace 5 días · James Day, April 12, 2021. Lilies of the Field, starring Sidney Poitier in his Oscar-winning role as Homer Smith, is an offbeat but quaint film released in 1963. Homer is on a road trip across Arizona where he encounters a group of women religious — nuns from Germany, Austria and Hungary.
Hace 4 días · Sidney Poitier. Wikipedia. Coming from a hard and impoverished life, Poitier became a beloved actor that many people loved. Not only that, but he was the type who could make people believe in his characters. Alan Bates. Wikipedia. Alan knew he wanted to be an actor early on, apparently.
Hace 1 día · Dee joined the American Negro Theatre as an apprentice, working with Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, and Hilda Simms. She made her Broadway debut portraying a Native in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific (1943). She played the title role in the Eugene O'Neill play Anna Lucasta.
Hace 4 días · I Am Not Sidney Poitier. But I never quite felt as though I read them. Not for nothing is Everett’s Poitier title prefaced by negation: there is a mystery to his refusals and retellings, his ...
