Sidney Poitier, celebrated big-screen actor and star of 'In the Heat of the Night' and 'Lilies of the Field,' has died at 94. The Oscar-winning ... The Oscar-winning actor, ...

Poitier, who won his Oscar in 1963 for Lilies of the Field, ... "But you couldn't cut Sidney Poitier out of a Sidney Poitier picture." Sponsored Content by Taboola. Popular Reads.

As Murphy, 63, reveals in the new two-episode Apple TV+ documentary Number One on the Call Sheet, he was advised by none other than Oscar-winning Hollywood legend Sidney Poitier to do just that ...

Actor Sidney Poitier is photographed with his Oscar statuette at the 36th Annual Academy Awards. Poitier became the first black actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies ...

"Sidney Poitier said, 'You are not Denzel [Washington], and you are not Morgan ... the Beverly Hills Cop actor shared that the Oscar winner told him not to star in 1992’s Malcom X.

Beah Richards, a veteran stage performer and character actor whose best work included her Oscar-nominated portrayal of Sidney Poitier's mother in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" and who won an Emmy ...

Sidney Poitier, whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywood's first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died. He ...

15th September 1980: Sidney Poitier , ... Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Lilies of the Field, for which he became the first Black actor to win an Oscar for Best Actor. ...

Eddie Murphy has shared the advice Sidney Poitier gave him after he was approached to star in the 1992 film Malcolm X. Murphy, 63, who shot to fame on Saturday Night Live before establishing ...