Sidney Poitier
With the death of Maximilian Schell on February 1 2014 he is the earliest surviving actor to have won the Academy Award for Best Actor. 1 day agoActor Sidney Poitier poses for a portrait in Beverly Hills Calif. A Young Sidney Poitier 1952 Old Hollywood Stars Movie Stars Classic Hollywood 6 2022 in the Bahamas. . Poitier the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for best lead performance and the first to be a top box-office draw died Thursday Jan. 2 days agoSidney Poitier whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywoods first Black movie star and the first Black man to. 2 days agoSidney Poitier Patric Knowles and Yvonne De Carlo in Band of Angels FilmPublicityArchiveUnited Arch As she described it was a difficult time in. He is an actor director film producer and diplomat. The Life ...