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LOS ANGELES — It was the most unlikely of beginnings. Newly arrived from the Bahamas with a thick West Indian accent, Sidney Poitier fumbled his lines so badly when he tried out for the American Negro Theater in Harlem that he was advised he’d be better off getting a job as a dishwasher. Humiliated
Sidney Poitier, who made history as the first Black man to win the Oscar for lead actor and starred in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," has died.
Sidney Poitier, who helped break down Hollywood’s on-screen color barriers and made history as the first African American to win an Academy Award for best actor before becoming one of the top box-office draws of the 1960s in movies such as “In the Heat of the Night” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” has died WHERE.
Sidney Poitier, who helped break down Hollywood’s on-screen color barriers and made history as the first African American to win an Academy Award for best actor before becoming one of the top box-office draws of the 1960s in movies such as “In the Heat of the Night” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” has died WHERE.
A detailed look at the late writer's early-'70s studio films with husband John Gregory Dunne, "The Panic in Needle Park" and "Play It as It Lays"