# Sidney Poitier
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sidney poitier ( PWAH-tyay; February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. Among his other accolades are two competitive Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award and a Grammy Award, in addition to nominations for two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award.
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Leading Men: Black Gay Lives in Old Hollywood and AIDS-Era New York
Xavier C. Barlow was supposed to be the next Sidney Poitier.Instead he's dead, and the man telling his story is the studio fixer who was paid to keep him in the closet. That's There's Only One Sin in Hollywood. Then we jump to 1985 for My Government Means to Kill Me, where 17-year-old Trey Single...
Sidney Poitier: The Actor Who Broke Hollywood's Color Barrier
On this episode of Our American Stories, Sidney Poitier arrived in New York as a teenager with almost nothing. He sometimes slept on rooftops and in pay toilets, worked as a dishwasher, and could barely read. When he auditioned for the American Negro Theater, he was thrown out and told to go find...
Episode 172: In the Heat of the Night (1967)
I revisit a film that’s every bit as powerful and entertaining as I remembered. Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger are terrific, but it’s the combination of murder mystery, atmosphere and a searing portrait of racial prejudice that makes this 1967 classic still hit hard today.
384: Les Brown - How To Unleash The Excellence Within You To Win
Text LEARNERS to 44222 Full show notes at www.LearningLeader.com The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk #384: Les Brown - You've Got To Be Hungry Notes:
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Ghost Dad: Cosby, Poitier, Lil Batman & My Dad
My dad, Barry Corbin, played Bill Cosby’s boss in Sidney Poitier’s Ghost Dad! In this episode I talk to him about being in the great Poitier’s rolodex, why he prefers working with directors who are also actors, how I distracted Cosby on set, what it was like showing up to work with me dressed as ...
Why It Won: In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Adelaide & Antonio talk the robbery of Sidney Poitier, the Canadian-ness of Norman Jewison, and unpack one of the best years in film history as they discuss why In the Heat of the Night won best picture.
To Sir, With Love II (1996) w/ Collin Brinkmann
This week, we are joined by author of Late Style in Film, Collin Brinkmann, to discuss yet another Bogdanovich legacy sequel: To Sir With Love II. Thirty years after Sidney Poitier’s defining role as “Sir” (Mark Thackeray) in the 1967 British smash hit To Sir, With Love, the powers of the televis...
Stir Crazy: Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Real Prisoners & My Dad
My dad, Barry Corbin, plays the Prison Warden in Sidney Poitier’s comedy Stir Crazy! In this episode I talk to him about befriending his co-star Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder’s on-set basketball skills, improvising with comedic geniuses, what it was like filming at a real prison with actual inmates,...
Abbott Elementary's William Stanford Davis: The Rewards Of Never Giving Up!
Before becoming the beloved Mr. Johnson on Abbott Elementary, William Stanford Davis was told his audition for Friends was terrible. His agent subsequently dropped him.
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