Mr. POITIER (as Virgil Tibbs): We were just trying to clarify some of the evidence.
There were the films about middle class values such as "To Sir With Love" starring Sidney Poitier.
Sidney Poitier presented Harry Belafonte with the Spingarn Award, which honors outstanding achievement by an African American.
Each sound stage is named after legendary African-American actors, including Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Cicely Tyson.
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Actors like Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington and Halle Berry have broken boundaries in making their mark on the film industry.
Mr. SIDNEY POITIER (as Virgil Tibbs): To ask you about Mr. Colbert.
And what comes out of a lot of that is you think about the way Sidney Poitier is influenced actors who've come after him.
Disney appointed Sidney Poitier to its board in 1994, for example.
Sidney Poitier is an actor known for breaking racial barriers.
You see Ivan Dixon, who was a contemporary of Sidney Poitier.
At one time, when Coleman was on top of the world, he'd hoped to be a great actor like his hero, Sidney Poitier, according to People.
One of those movies was 1968's For Love of Ivy, alongside actor Sidney Poitier, in which she plays an unconventional maid with a mind of her own.
While Denzel Washington has staked out practically all the roles that would once have been played by Sidney Poitier, Hollywood has yet to find and encourage a contemporary black actress of the calibre of Dorothy Dandridge.
The two of them hatched get-rich-quick schemes Mr Poitier wanted to market an extract of Caribbean conch as an aphrodisiac and they shared theatre tickets: they could only afford a single ticket between them, so one would attend before the interval and one after, then each would fill the other in.
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