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Sidney Poitier

Highest Rated: 100% Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me (2017)

Lowest Rated: 6% Ghost Dad (1990)

Birthday: Feb 20, 1927

Birthplace: Miami, Florida, USA

Highest rated movies

100% 100% Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
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100% Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart
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100% 64% Deadly Pursuit
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100% Nationtime Watchlist
96% 92% In the Heat of the Night
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95% 79% Sing Your Song
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92% 68% Cry, the Beloved Country
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92% 86% Lilies of the Field
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90% 88% The Defiant Ones
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90% 88% To Sir, With Love Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story Self - 2022
100% 100% Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me Self - 2017
100% No Score Yet Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart Self - 2017
95% 79% Sing Your Song Unknown (Character) $47.7K 2011
No Score Yet 66% The Last Brickmaker in America Henry Cobb (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey Narrator - 2001
No Score Yet 78% Free of Eden Will Cleamons (Character),
Executive Producer
- 1999
No Score Yet 85% The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn Noah Dearborn (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet 64% David and Lisa Dr. Jack Miller (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 70% Mandela and de Klerk Nelson Mandela (Character) - 1997
24% 51% The Jackal Carter Preston (Character) $54.9M 1997
No Score Yet 58% To Sir, With Love II Mark Thackeray (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet 76% A Good Day to Die Gypsy Smith (Character) - 1995
80% 80% Sneakers Donald Crease (Character) $50.6M 1992
83% 79% Separate But Equal Unknown (Character) - 1991
6% 32% Ghost Dad Director $20.9M 1990
100% 64% Deadly Pursuit Warren Stantin (Character) $29.3M 1988
53% 45% Little Nikita Roy Parmenter (Character) $1.5M 1988
No Score Yet 83% Fast Forward Director - 1985
45% 31% Hanky Panky Director - 1982
69% 75% Stir Crazy Director - 1980
No Score Yet 75% Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist Narrator - 1979
No Score Yet 81% A Piece of the Action Manny Durrell (Character),
Director
- 1977
67% 45% The Wilby Conspiracy Shack Twala (Character) - 1975
60% 86% Let's Do It Again Clyde Williams (Character),
Director
- 1975
70% 79% Uptown Saturday Night Steve Jackson (Character),
Director
- 1974
No Score Yet 48% A Warm December Dr. Matt Younger (Character),
Director
- 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nationtime: Gary Narrator - 1972
100% No Score Yet Nationtime Narrator (Character) - 1972
84% 61% Buck and the Preacher Buck (Character),
Director
- 1972
25% 29% The Organization Virgil Tibbs (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet 54% Brother John John Kane (Character) - 1971
50% 36% They Call Me Mister Tibbs! Virgil Tibbs (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet 50% The Lost Man Jason Higgs (Character) - 1969
43% 52% For Love of Ivy Jack Parks (Character) - 1968
90% 88% To Sir, With Love Mark Thackeray (Character) - 1967
71% 85% Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Dr. John Wade Prentice (Character) - 1967
96% 92% In the Heat of the Night Virgil Tibbs (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet 60% Duel at Diablo Toller (Character) - 1966
71% 74% The Slender Thread Alan Newell (Character) - 1965
89% 91% A Patch of Blue Gordon Ralfe (Character) - 1965
86% 75% The Bedford Incident Ben Munceford (Character) - 1965
54% 39% The Long Ships Aly Mansuh (Character) - 1964
92% 86% Lilies of the Field Homer Smith (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet 76% Pressure Point Doctor (Character) - 1962
69% 68% Paris Blues Eddie Cook (Character) - 1961
90% 86% A Raisin in the Sun Walter Lee Younger (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet 48% All the Young Men Sgt. Eddie Towler (Character) - 1960
71% 78% Porgy and Bess Porgy (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Virgin Island Marcus (Character) - 1959
90% 88% The Defiant Ones Noah Cullen (Character) - 1958
No Score Yet 73% The Mark of the Hawk Obam (Character) - 1958
50% 48% Something of Value Kimani Wa Karanja (Character) - 1957
60% 65% Band of Angels Rau-Ru (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet 74% Edge of the City Tommy Tyler (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet 86% Goodbye, My Lady Gates (Character) - 1956
74% 78% Blackboard Jungle Gregory W. Miller (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet Go, Man, Go! Inman Jackson (Character) - 1954
92% 68% Cry, the Beloved Country Reverend Msimangu (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet 42% Red Ball Express Robertson (Character) - 1952
86% 82% No Way Out Dr. Luther Brooks (Character) - 1950

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet 20/20 Guest 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Children of the Dust Unknown (Character) 1995