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Poitier showed acting brillliance beyond his years. 12 hours agoSidney Poitier Pioneering Actor Dies at 94 Sidney Poitier was the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for best actor for Lilies of.

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This brilliance continued over a 50 year film career.

. Poitier was 44 years old at the time. 9 hours agoSidney Poitier who has died aged 94 was the first black actor to win an Oscar in a leading role in 1964 for his performance in Lilies of the Field. Sidney Poitier the renowned Hollywood icon director and activist who commanded the screen reshaped the culture and paved the way for countless other Black actors with stirring performances in.

With the death of Maximilian Schell on February 1 2014 he is the earliest surviving actor to have won the Academy Award for Best Actor. This simple story about a handyman helping. The wonderful Sidney Poitier made his fim debut auspiciously in the 1950 Joe Mankiewicz drama No Way Out.

Sid Poitier has always had a quiet dignity and elegance and his performances have been consistently excellent. 12 hours agoSidney Poitier whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywoods first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar has died. 13 hours agoSidney Poitier and John Cassavetes in 1957s Edge of the City Getty Images While Poitiers career is legendary his private life wasnt as glamorous.

He received his award for playing Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field 1963 at The 36th Annual Academy Awards 1964. At 23 years old Mr.

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