Acting

シドニー・ポワチエ

シドニー・ポワチエの代表作はThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson、アカデミー賞、The Dick Cavett Show、ゴールデングローブ賞です。シドニー・ポワチエは1927年2月20日生まれです。シドニー・ポワチエは2022年1月6日に94歳で亡くなりました。

生年月日: 1927年2月20日
出身地: Miami, Florida, USA
没年月日: 2022年1月6日 (94歳)

経歴

Sidney Poitier KBE (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he became the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Lilies of the Field. Other accolades include two competitive Golden Globe Awards, a competitive British Academy of Film and Television Arts award (BAFTA), and a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album. Major films featuring Poitier in a starring role include Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Defiant Ones (1958), To Sir, with Love (1967), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), In the Heat of the Night (1967), Sneakers (1992), and The Jackal (1997). Later in his career, he turned to directing with features such as Buck and the Preacher (1972), Uptown Saturday Night (1974), Stir Crazy (1980), and Ghost Dad (1990). At the time of his death, Poitier was one of the last major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.