Sidney Poitier, whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywood’s first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died. He was 94.
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- (CNN) Sidney Poitier, whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywood’s first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died.
- Actor Sidney Poitier, left, with actor Tony Franciosa, talk show host David Susskind, singer Harry Belafonte and actress Shelley Winters on the talk show “Open End” in 1960 in New York City.
- Sidney Poitier during a break in filming of “In the Heat of the Night” on location in Tennessee on April 11, 1967.
- I was the most successful Black actor in the history of the country," Poitier told Winfrey .
- Sidney Poitier at the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar night party on March 2, 2014, in West Hollywood, California.