Sidney Poitier Dies at 94
January 7, 2022 6:36AM AKST
Legendary actor Sidney Poitier has died. His career included classic films, “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner”, “To Sir, with Love”, and “In The Heat of the Night”.
He was the first black actor to win the Academy Award for acting in 1963’s “Lilies of the Field”.
In the 1970’s Poitier moved to Directing. Between 1995 and 2003 he served as a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company.
Poitier was born in Miami, Florida in 1927.