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Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier (born 1927), the African-American actor

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Legal name, Full name
"Sidney Poitier"
Born
1927; February 1927; February 20th 1927; the United States; Florida;  …
Starred in
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; In the Heat of the Night; Sneakers; The Greatest Story Ever Told; To Sir, with Love;  …
Wrote
The Measure of a Man
Directed
Let's Do It Again, Stir Crazy, Ghost Dad, Uptown Saturday Night, A Piece of the Action,  …
Wrote for Screen
For Love of Ivy
Height
1.892 metres (6.207 feet)
Occupation
actor, film director
Wikipedia Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Poitier
Spouse
Joanna Shimkus
Active
1943 onwards
Address
11234 Westerly Dr, Beverly Hills
Won
Oscar, Best Actor (1963), Presidential Medal of Freedom
Gender
male
Nationality
american
Residence
Beverly Hills, California
Last Name
"Poitier"
First Name
"Sidney", Sidney
Class
person; actor; film director; diplomat; ambassador;  …
Raised
The Bahamas
Featured in
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project; Small Steps, Big Strides; Ali Rap; A Century of Black Cinema
Worked with
Sidney Armus
Nominations
Best Actor (1963)
Born During
1920s
Attributes
african-american, male, 1.892 metres tall, bahamian
Related Websites
http://www.triviatribute.com/sidneypoitier.html, http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features/profiles/p/sidney-poitier.html, http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/sidney_poitier, http://www.leadwithexperience.org/prize/judges/poitier.cfm, http://news.pajamasmedia.com/2006/07/26/9848958_Sidney_Poitier_t.shtml,  …
Freebase ID
"/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000005bbd0"
OpenCyc ID
"Mx4rwD-B-5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA"
DBPedia URI
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Sidney_Poitier
Birthday
the 20th of February
Quotes
"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection."; "To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed."; "The journey has been incredible from its beginning."; "So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness."; "My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.";  …
Rare Terms
"sidney"
Freebase Primary MID
"/m/0cgzj"
Wife
Ruby Dee
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Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE ˈ p w ɑː t j eɪ / or / ˈ p w ɑː t i. eɪ /; born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian American actor, film director, author, and diplomat.
Sidney Poitier 1927-, American actor, b. Miami, raised in the Bahamas, returned to the United States at 15. The first African-American actor to...
Encyclopedia Poitier, Sidney. Poitier, Sidney, 1927–, American actor, b. Miami, raised in the Bahamas, returned to the United States at 15. The first African-American actor ...
More than an actor (and Academy-Award winner), Sidney Poitier is an artist, a writer and director, a thinker and critic, a humanitarian and diplomat.
Biography of Sidney Poitier, The star of the 1967 film In The Heat of the Night

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