Sidney Poitier
The Last Brickmaker in America (2001)
The Last Brickmaker in America is a 2001 American drama television film directed by Gregg Champion and written by Richard Leder. Produced by Nasser Entertainment. Distributed by Empire Home Entertainment. The film was released on September 23, 2001, and is available for streaming on Tubi.
Starring: Louis Calhern•Sydney Tamiia Poitier•John Wayne
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999)
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn, is a 1999 American television film aired on 9 May 1999 on CBS. It stars Sidney Poitier as the eponymous rural Georgia skilled carpenter, who lives alone without electricity and seems frozen in time. George Newbern played a developer trying to force Dearborn off his land. He tries to enlist the help of his psycholog...
Starring: Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Clark Gable•Katharine Hepburn
The Jackal (1997)
The Jackal is a 1997 American action thriller film directed by Michael Caton-Jones, and starring Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, and Sidney Poitier in his final film role. The film involves the hunt for a paid assassin. It is a loose remake of the 1973 film The Day of the Jackal, which starred Edward Fox, and was based on the 1971 novel of the same nam...
Starring: Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Dane Clark•Yvonne De Carlo•Burt Lancaster
Mandela and de Klerk (1997)
Mandela and de Klerk is a 1997 made-for-television drama film written by Richard Wesley and directed by Joseph Sargent. The film stars Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine. The film documents the negotiations between F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela to end South African apartheid, and was nominated for numerous awards in 1997 and 1998. It originally pr...
Starring: Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Pearl Bailey
To Sir, with Love II (1996)
To Sir, with Love II is a 1996 American television film directed by Peter Bogdanovich. A sequel to the 1967 British film To Sir, with Love, it stars Sidney Poitier reprising the role of Mark Thackeray. Like the first film, it deals with social issues in an inner city school.
Starring: Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Jeff Chandler•Tony Curtis
Children of the Dust (1995)
Children of the Dust is an American Western television miniseries, based on Clancy Carlile's 1995 novel of the same name. Featuring an ensemble cast led by Sidney Poitier, Children of the Dust was originally broadcast by CBS on February 26 and 28, 1995.
Starring: Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Ruby Dee•Piper Laurie
Sneakers (1992)
Sneakers is a 1992 American thriller film directed by Phil Alden Robinson, written by Robinson, Walter Parkes, and Lawrence Lasker, and starring Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, and David Strathairn; the film was released by Universal Pictures.
Starring: Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Anne Francis•Rock Hudson•Alex Nicol•Anne Bancroft•Sheree North•Sidney Poitier
Separate but Equal (1991)
Separate But Equal is a 1991 American two-part television miniseries depicting the landmark Supreme Court desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education, based on the phrase "Separate but equal". The film stars Sidney Poitier as lead NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall, Richard Kiley as Chief Justice Earl Warren, Burt Lancaster as lawyer John W. Davis...
Starring: Russ Tamblyn•Harry Belafonte•Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Paul Newman
Little Nikita (1988)
Little Nikita is a 1988 American thriller film directed by Richard Benjamin and starring River Phoenix and Sidney Poitier. The film marks the first collaboration between Phoenix and Poitier.
Starring: Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Sheree North
Shoot to Kill (1988)
Shoot to Kill is a 1988 American buddy cop action thriller film directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger, Clancy Brown, Andrew Robinson and Kirstie Alley.
Starring: Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Dana Wynter•Joanne Woodward•James Darren
A Piece of the Action (1977)
A Piece of the Action is a 1977 American crime comedy film directed by and starring Sidney Poitier and co-starring Bill Cosby. It was the third film pairing of Poitier and Cosby, following Uptown Saturday Night (1974) and Let's Do It Again (1975). The films are considered a trilogy, even though the actors play characters with different names in eac...
Starring: Sydney Tamiia Poitier•James Garner•Martin Balsam
Let's Do It Again (1975)
Let's Do It Again is a 1975 American action crime comedy film starring Sidney Poitier and co-starring Bill Cosby and Jimmie Walker among an all-star black cast. The film, directed by Poitier, is about blue-collar workers who decide to rig a boxing match to raise money for their fraternal lodge. The song of the same name by The Staple Singers was fe...
Starring: Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Sammy Davis, Jr.•Martin Balsam
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
Uptown Saturday Night is a 1974 American action comedy crime film written by Richard Wesley and directed by and starring Sidney Poitier, with Bill Cosby and Harry Belafonte co-starring. Cosby and Poitier teamed up again for Let's Do It Again (1975) and A Piece of the Action (1977). Although Cosby's and Poitier's characters have different names in e...
Starring: Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Warren Oates•Martin Balsam
A Warm December (1973)
A Warm December is a 1973 American romantic drama film directed by Sidney Poitier and starring him in the lead role as Dr. Matt Younger. It also stars Jamaican actress Esther Anderson as Catherine, Matt's love interest. Anderson's performance as an African princess won her a NAACP Image Award for Best Actress in 1973. The film is also notable for a...
Starring: Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Bibi Andersson•Telly Savalas
Buck and the Preacher (1972)
Buck and the Preacher is a 1972 American Western film released by Columbia Pictures, written by Ernest Kinoy and directed by Sidney Poitier. Poitier also stars in the film alongside Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee.
Starring: Robert Redford•Sydney Tamiia Poitier•David McCallum
Brother John (1971)
Brother John is a 1971 American drama film about an enigmatic African-American man who shows up every time a relative is about to die. When he returns to his Hackley, Alabama hometown as his sister is dying of cancer, it incites the suspicion of notable town officials.
Starring: Lilia Skala•Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Wally Cox
The Organization (1971)
The Organization is a 1971 DeLuxe Color American crime thriller film starring Sidney Poitier and directed by Don Medford. It was the last of the trilogy featuring the police detective Virgil Tibbs that had begun with In the Heat of the Night (1967), followed by They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970). In The Organization, Tibbs is called in to hunt down ...
Starring: Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Beau Bridges•Barbara McNair
They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! (1970)
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! is a 1970 American DeLuxe Color crime drama film directed by Gordon Douglas. The second installment in a trilogy, the release was preceded by In the Heat of the Night (1967) and followed by The Organization (1971). The film's title was taken from a line in the first film.
Starring: Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Phylicia Rashad•Barbara McNair
The Lost Man (1969)
The Lost Man is a 1969 American crime film, written and directed by Robert Alan Aurthur, loosely based on British author F.L. Green's 1945 novel Odd Man Out, which was previously made into a 1947 film directed by Carol Reed and starring James Mason.
Starring: Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Richard Dysart•Farrah Fawcett
For Love of Ivy (1968)
For Love of Ivy is a 1968 romantic comedy film directed by Daniel Mann. The film stars Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges, Nan Martin, Lauri Peters, and Carroll O'Connor. The story was written by Poitier with screenwriter Robert Alan Aurthur. The musical score was composed by Quincy Jones. The theme song "For Love of Ivy", written by Quinc...
Starring: Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Cleavon Little•Robert Guillaume
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 American romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, and written by William Rose. It stars Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Hepburn, and features Hepburn's niece Katharine Houghton.
Starring: Ester Anderson•George Baker•Sydney Tamiia Poitier
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American neo-noir mystery drama film directed by Norman Jewison. It is based on John Ball's 1965 novel of the same name and tells the story of Virgil Tibbs, a Black police detective from Philadelphia, who becomes involved in a murder investigation in a small town in Mississippi. It stars Sidney Poitier and Rod Ste...
Starring: Dan Aykroyd•Sydney Tamiia Poitier•David Strathairn•Ben Kingsley
Duel at Diablo (1966)
Duel at Diablo is a 1966 American Western film starring James Garner in his first Western after leaving the long-running tv series Maverick, as well as Sidney Poitier in his first ever Western. Based on Marvin H. Albert's 1957 novel Apache Rising, the film was co-written by Albert and Michael M. Grilikhes; it was directed by Ralph Nelson, who had d...
Starring: Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Kirstie Alley•Clancy Brown
The Bedford Incident (1965)
The Bedford Incident is a 1965 British-American Cold War film directed by James B. Harris, starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier, and produced by Harris and Widmark. The cast also features Eric Portman, James MacArthur, Martin Balsam, and Wally Cox, as well as early appearances by Donald Sutherland and Ed Bishop. James Poe adapted Mark Rascov...
Starring: River Phoenix•Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Diane Venora•Bruce Willis
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
The Greatest Story Ever Told is a 1965 American epic film produced and directed by George Stevens. It is a retelling of the Biblical account about Jesus of Nazareth, from the Nativity through to the Ascension. With an ensemble cast, it is Claude Rains' final film role.
Starring: Mary McDonnell•Mary-Louise Parker•Wendy Crewson•Brittany Murphy•Lulu•Judy Geeson•Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Phylicia Rashad•Shelley Winters•Clark Gable
A Patch of Blue (1965)
A Patch of Blue is a 1965 American drama film directed by Guy Green about the friendship between an educated black man and an illiterate, blind, white 18-year-old girl, and the problems that plague their friendship in a racially divided America. Made in 1965 against the backdrop of the growing civil rights movement, the film explores racism while p...
Starring: Glenn Ford•Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Alan Ladd
The Slender Thread (1965)
The Slender Thread is a 1965 American drama film starring Anne Bancroft and Sidney Poitier. It was the first feature-length film directed by future Oscar-winning director, producer and actor Sydney Pollack.
Starring: Dorothy Dandridge•Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Shelley Winters
Lilies of the Field (1963)
Lilies of the Field is a 1963 American comedy drama film adapted by James Poe from the 1962 novel of the same name by William Edmund Barrett, and stars Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Stanley Adams, and Dan Frazer. It was produced and directed by Ralph Nelson. The title comes from the Sermon on the Mount in the Bible. It features an early film score b...
Starring: Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Dane Clark
The Long Ships (1963)
The Long Ships is a 1964 Anglo–Yugoslav adventure film shot in Technirama directed by Jack Cardiff and starring Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn and Rosanna Schiaffino.
Starring: River Phoenix•Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Yvonne De Carlo
Pressure Point (1962)
Pressure Point is a 1962 American psychological drama film directed and co-written by Hubert Cornfield. It stars Sidney Poitier and Bobby Darin, about a prison psychiatrist treating an American Nazi sympathizer during World War II.
Starring: Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Pearl Bailey•Jeff Chandler
Paris Blues (1961)
Paris Blues is a 1961 American musical romantic drama film directed by Martin Ritt, starring Sidney Poitier as expatriate jazz saxophonist Eddie Cook, and Paul Newman as trombone-playing Ram Bowen. The two men romance two vacationing American tourists, Connie Lampson and Lillian Corning. The film also deals with American racism of the time contrast...
Starring: Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Tony Curtis•Anne Francis
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
A Raisin in the Sun is a 1961 American drama film directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Roy Glenn, and Louis Gossett Jr., and adapted from the 1959 play of the same name by Lorraine Hansberry. It follows a black family that wants a better life away from the city. A Raisin in the Sun was releas...
Starring: Robert Redford•Sydney Tamiia Poitier
All the Young Men (1960)
All the Young Men is a 1960 Korean War feature film directed by Hall Bartlett and starring Alan Ladd and Sidney Poitier dealing with desegregation in the United States Marine Corps. Poitier plays a sergeant unexpectedly placed in command of the survivors of a platoon in the Korean War. The film explores the racial integration of the American milita...
Starring: Rock Hudson•Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Alex Nicol
Porgy and Bess (1959)
Porgy and Bess is a 1959 American musical drama film directed by Otto Preminger, and starring Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge in the titular roles. It is based on the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin, in turn based on Heyward's 1925 novel Porgy, as well as Heyward's subsequent 1927 non-musical stage...
Starring: Anne Bancroft•Russ Tamblyn•Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Paul Newman•Vic Morrow
The Defiant Ones (1958)
The Defiant Ones is a 1958 American adventure drama film which tells the story of two escaped prisoners, one white and one black, who are shackled together and who must co-operate in order to survive. It stars Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier.
Starring: John Cassavetes•Sydney Tamiia Poitier
Band of Angels (1957)
Band of Angels is a 1957 psychological drama film set in the American South before and during the American Civil War, based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren. It starred Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo and Sidney Poitier. The movie was directed by Raoul Walsh.
Starring: Dana Wynter•Joanne Woodward•Sydney Tamiia Poitier
Edge of the City (1957)
Edge of the City is a 1957 American film-noir drama film directed by Martin Ritt in his directorial debut, and starring John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier. Robert Alan Aurthur's screenplay was expanded from his original script, staged as the final episode of Philco Television Playhouse, A Man Is Ten Feet Tall (1955), also featuring Poitier.
Starring: Sydney Tamiia Poitier•James Darren•Jack Warden
Something of Value (1957)
Something of Value is a 1957 American drama film directed by Richard Brooks and starring Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, and Sidney Poitier. The film was reissued under the title Africa Ablaze.
Starring: Sammy Davis, Jr.•Sydney Tamiia Poitier•Diahann Carroll
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 American social drama film about an English teacher in an interracial inner-city school, based on the 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter and adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks. It is remembered for its innovative use of rock and roll in its soundtrack, for casting grown adults as high scho...
Starring: Peter Falk•Bobby Darin•Telly Savalas•Harry Belafonte•Sydney Tamiia Poitier•David McCallum
Go Man Go (1954)
Go, Man, Go! is a 1954 American sports film directed by James Wong Howe, starring Dane Clark, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Patricia Breslin, The Harlem Globetrotters and Slim Gaillard. Clark plays Abe Saperstein, the organizer of the Globetrotters. Poitier's character is Inman Jackson, the team's showboating center. Breslin plays Sylvia Saperstein, th...
Starring: Lilia Skala•Robert Redford•Sydney Tamiia Poitier
Red Ball Express (1952)
Red Ball Express is a 1952 World War II war film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Jeff Chandler and Alex Nicol, featuring early screen appearances by Sidney Poitier and Hugh O'Brian. The film is based on the Red Ball Express convoys that took place after the D-Day landings in Normandy in June 1944.
Starring: Elizabeth Hartman•Alex Nicol•Sydney Tamiia Poitier