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Sidney Poitier

Highest Rated:: 100% Lilies of the Field (1963)
Lowest Rated:: 5% Ghost Dad (1990)

Birthday:: Feb 20, 1927
Birthplace:: Miami, Florida, USA
Bio:: Sidney Poitier was to Hollywood what Jackie Robinson was to major league baseball: simply put, the man who broke the color barrier. An actor, director, and producer, he forever altered the racial perceptions long held by both motion picture audiences and executives, rising to superstar status in an…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 5% - 100%

Number of Movies: 68

Box Office Since 2001: $27.9k

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2011	94%	Sing Your Song	Sidney Poitier	$27.9k
2008		Black Hollywood: Blaxploitation and Advancing an Independent Black Cinema	Actor	--
2007	80%	Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project	Actor	--
2006		Ali Rap	Actor	--
2004	87%	Tell Them Who You Are	Actor	--
2002		Quincy Jones: In the Pocket	Actor	--
2001		The Last Brickmaker in America	Henry Cobb	--
1999		Free Of Eden	Actor	--
1999		Simple Life of Noah Dearborn	Noah Dearborn	--
1999		Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light	Actor	--
1998		David & Lisa	Dr. Jack Miller	--
1997		Mandela and De Klerk	Nelson Mandela	--
1997	12%	The Jackal	Cater Preston	--
1997		Century of Black Cinema	Actor	--
1996		To Sir, with Love 2	Actor	--
1995		Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick	Actor	--
1995		A Good Day To Die (Children of the Dust)	Gypsy Smith	--
1992	81%	Sneakers	Donald Crease	--
1991	83%	Separate But Equal	Thurgood Marshall	--
1990	5%	Ghost Dad	Director	--
1988	86%	Little Nikita	Roy Parmenter	--
1988	100%	Shoot to Kill (Deadly Pursuit)	Warren Stantin	--
1986		The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn	Actor	--
1984		Fast Forward	Director	--
1982	38%	Hanky Panky	Director	--
1980	67%	Stir Crazy	Director	--
1979		Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist	Actor	--
1977		A Piece of the Action	Manny Durrell Director	--
1975	80%	Let's Do It Again	Director Clyde Williams	--
1975		The Wilby Conspiracy	Shack Twala	--
1974	71%	Uptown Saturday Night	Director Steve Jackson	--
1973		A Warm December	Director Dr. Matt Younger	--
1972		Buck and the Preacher	Buck Director	--
1971		The Organization	Virgil Tibbs	--
1970		Brother John	John Kane	--
1970	60%	They Call Me Mister Tibbs	Virgil Tibbs	--
1969		The Lost Man	Jason Higgs	--
1968	40%	For Love of Ivy	Jack Parks	--
1967	65%	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	John Prentice	--
1967	92%	To Sir, With Love	Mark Thackeray	--
1967	96%	In the Heat of the Night	Virgil Tibbs	--
1966		Duel at Diablo	Toller	--
1965	100%	A Patch of Blue	Gordon Ralfe	--
1965	100%	The Bedford Incident	Ben Munceford	--
1965	37%	The Greatest Story Ever Told	Simon of Cyrene	--
1965		The Slender Thread	Alan Newell	--
1963	100%	Lilies of the Field	Homer Smith	--
1963	50%	The Long Ships	Aly Mansuh	--
1962		Pressure Point	Doctor	--
1961	100%	A Raisin in the Sun	Walter Lee Younger	--
1961	63%	Paris Blues	Eddie Cook	--
1960		All the Young Men	Towler	--
1959	83%	Porgy and Bess	Porgy	--
1958		Ebony Elegance	Actor	--
1958		Virgin Island	Marcus	--
1958	81%	The Defiant Ones	Noah Cullen	--
1957		The Mark of the Hawk (Accused)	Oban	--
1957		Band of Angels	RauRu	--
1957		Something of Value (Africa Ablaze)	Kimani	--
1957		Edge of the City	Tommy Tyler	--
1956		Good-bye, My Lady	Gates	--
1955	76%	Blackboard Jungle	Gregory W. Miller	--
1954		Go, Man, Go!	Inman Jackson	--
1952		Red Ball Express	Cpl. Andrew Robertson	--
1951		Black History: The Classics	Actor	--
1951		Cry, the Beloved Country (African Fury)	Rev. Maimangu	--
1950		No Way Out	Dr. Luther Brooks	--
1939		Tales of Courage	Actor	--

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1. John Prentice: You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
From Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Submitted by Chris P (9 months ago)