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Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier was an actor, film director, and author, born on February 20, 1927, in Miami, Florida. He was the first black actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1963 film "Lilies of the Field". Poitier also directed several successful films, including "Stir Crazy" and "Ghost Dad".
Titles credited to Sidney Poitier
Little Nikita
Roy Parmenter is an FBI agent in San Diego; 20 years ago his partner was killed by a Soviet spy, nicknamed Scuba, still at large. Scuba is now trying to extort the Soviets; to prove he's serious, he's...
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The Mark of the Hawk
The man called Obam struggles with the increasingly hostile forces facing each other in a colonial African country. The African natives want their land and lives back from the British colonists. Obam'...
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