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Re: Sidney Poitier
In The Heat Of The Night is one of my favourite films!
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Re: Sidney Poitier
SIDNEYS FILOGRAPHY.
Filmography
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Actor (55 credits)
2001The Last Brickmaker in America (TV Movie)
Henry Cobb
1999The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (TV Movie)
Noah Dearborn
1998David and Lisa (TV Movie)
Dr. Jack Miller
1998Free of Eden (TV Movie)
Will Cleamons
1997The Jackal
Preston
1997Mandela and de Klerk (TV Movie)
Nelson Mandela
1996To Sir, with Love II (TV Movie)
Mark Thackeray
1995Children of the Dust (TV Mini-Series)
Gypsy Smith- Episode #1.2 (1995) ... Gypsy Smith
- Episode #1.1 (1995) ... Gypsy Smith
1992Sneakers
Crease
1991Separate But Equal (TV Mini-Series)
Thurgood Marshall
1988Little Nikita
Roy Parmenter
1988Shoot to Kill
Warren Stantin
1977A Piece of the Action
Manny Durrell
1975Let's Do It Again
Clyde Williams
1975The Wilby Conspiracy
Shack Twala
1974Uptown Saturday Night
Steve Jackson
1973A Warm December
Dr. Matt Younger
1972Buck and the Preacher
Buck
1971The Organization
Virgil Tibbs
1971Brother John
John Kane
1970They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
Virgil Tibbs
1969The Lost Man
Jason Higgs
1968For Love of Ivy
Jack Parks
1967Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
John Prentice
1967In the Heat of the Night
Virgil Tibbs
1967To Sir, with Love
Mark Thackeray
1966Duel at Diablo
Toller
1965A Patch of Blue
Gordon Ralfe
1965The Slender Thread
Alan Newell
1965The Bedford Incident
Ben Munceford
1965The Greatest Story Ever Told
Simon of Cyrene
1964The Long Ships
Aly Mansuh
1963Lilies of the Field
Homer Smith
1962Pressure Point
Doctor
1961Paris Blues
Eddie Cook
1961A Raisin in the Sun
Walter Lee Younger
1960All the Young Men
Sgt. Eddie Towler
1959Porgy and Bess
Porgy
1958Our Virgin Island
Marcus
1958The Defiant Ones
Noah Cullen
1957The Mark of the Hawk
Obam
1957Band of Angels
Rau-Ru
1957Something of Value
Kimani Wa Karanja
1957Edge of the City
Tommy Tyler
1956Good-bye, My Lady
Gates Watson
1952-1955Repertory Theatre (TV Series)
Tommy Tyler- A Man Is Ten Feet Tall (1955) ... Tommy Tyler
- Parole Chief (1952)
1955Ponds Theater (TV Series)
- The Fascinating Stranger (1955)
1955Blackboard Jungle
Gregory W. Miller
1954Go Man Go
Inman Jackson
1952Omnibus (TV Series) (segment "The Bad Men")- The Trial of Anne Boleyn (1952) ... (segment "The Bad Men")
1952Red Ball Express
Robertson
1952CBS Television Workshop (TV Series)
- Careless Love (1952)
1951Cry, the Beloved Country
Reverend Msimangu
1950No Way Out
Dr. Luther Brooks
1947Sepia Cinderella
Night Club Extra (uncredited)
A TRULY SUPERB ACTOR AND I TOO THINK HE ADDS CLASS TO ANYTHING HES IN.Last edited by darren; 22-04-2019, 20:41.Leave a comment:
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Re: Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier was brilliant in the film The Heat of the Night. The film won 5 oscar awards. Rod Steiger was good and won Best Actor award 'in a leading role.' So my point is what role did Poitier play in the film? No award for him.Leave a comment:
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Re: Sidney Poitier
A really good actor in my opinion. He has made some fine films and I think he always adds a bit of class to whatever he is in. As well as To Sir, with Love, I would recommend Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? and In the Heat of the Night, both classics.Leave a comment:
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Re: Sidney Poitier
Not too familiar with Mr poitiers work apart from to sir with love of-course, did you know there was a sequel made in 1996 ?Leave a comment:
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Sidney Poitier
I briefly mentioned Poitier on the ITV weekday afternoon films thread, but I think that out of all the roles that he played, his role as Mark Thackeray in To Sir, With Love was the one which, I believe, was the influence for Please Sir! and certainly its movie spin off. I think that one almost feels sorry for his character when a class full of 1960s teenagers (Lulu included of course) happen to be in his charge. These days, teachers dress more liberally than their pupils because of school uniform barriers, but turn the clock back half a century and it seemed to be the other way round.
Poitier helped to modernise acting as we would probably know it, and at such a time when the film was being made, it wasn't surprising that it would happen around that time. Indeed, comparison-wise, John Alderton played the Poitier role in Please Sir! while Michael Percival was his counterpart in Grange Hill.
I have just looked him up on Wikipedia and he is still with us at the age of 92 - he was knighted by the Queen in 1974. I think that he is a timeless person. And his daughter is called Sydney (although the slightly different spelling).
He was very much a reformer in his time.
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