ACTOR

Sidney Poitier

1927 - 2022

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Sidney Poitier ( PWAH-tyay; February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first Black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. He received two competitive Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Grammy Award as well as nominations for two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sidney Poitier has received more than 16,089,583 page views. His biography is available in 89 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 87 in 2019). Sidney Poitier is the 251st most popular actor (down from 97th in 2019), the 486th most popular biography from United States (down from 1st in 2019) and the 123rd most popular American Actor.

Sidney Poitier is most famous for being the first African American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1964.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Sidney Poitier ranks 251 out of 13,578. Before him are Raffaella Carrà, Paul Walker, Kevin Spacey, Shirley Temple, Gal Gadot, and John Malkovich. After him are Malcolm McDowell, Mads Mikkelsen, Nick Nolte, Faye Dunaway, Reese Witherspoon, and James Coburn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Sidney Poitier ranks 18. Before him are Mstislav Rostropovich, Turgut Özal, K. Alex Müller, László Kubala, Antônio Carlos Jobim, and Kim Young-sam. After him are Lawrence Kohlberg, Albert Uderzo, Janet Leigh, Niklas Luhmann, Harry Belafonte, and Simone Veil. Among people deceased in 2022, Sidney Poitier ranks 26. Before him are Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Robbie Coltrane, José Eduardo dos Santos, Francisco Gento, Uwe Seeler, and Kane Tanaka. After him are Dietrich Mateschitz, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Angela Lansbury, Lata Mangeshkar, Peter Brook, and Wolfgang Petersen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sidney Poitier ranks 486 out of 20,380. Before him are Chuck Jones (1912), Jerome Bruner (1915), Gwen Stefani (1969), David Duke (1950), George Foreman (1949), and John Malkovich (1953). After him are Buffalo Bill (1846), Nick Nolte (1941), Robert Kiyosaki (1947), Dian Fossey (1932), Faye Dunaway (1941), and Reese Witherspoon (1976).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Sidney Poitier ranks 123. Before him are Jayne Mansfield (1933), Jodie Foster (1962), Paul Walker (1973), Kevin Spacey (1959), Shirley Temple (1928), and John Malkovich (1953). After him are Nick Nolte (1941), Faye Dunaway (1941), Reese Witherspoon (1976), James Coburn (1928), Bill Murray (1950), and Talia Shire (1946).

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Television and Movie Roles

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