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There were the films about middle class values such as "To Sir With Love" starring Sidney Poitier.
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Sidney Poitier presented Harry Belafonte with the Spingarn Award, which honors outstanding achievement by an African American.
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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.
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Mr. SIDNEY POITIER (as Virgil Tibbs): To ask you about Mr. Colbert.
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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.
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Disney appointed Sidney Poitier to its board in 1994, for example.
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Sidney Poitier is an actor known for breaking racial barriers.
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You see Ivan Dixon, who was a contemporary of Sidney Poitier.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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