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France makes Poitier commander -
19 May 2006
Highly decorated Hollywood legend Sidney Poitier was named a commander in France's order of arts and letters, the highest arts accolade in the country, at the Cannes film festival yesterday. - -The French culture minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres praised Mr Poitier fo
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The Defiant Ones 4 September 2004
Sidney Poitier - filmography
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The Last Brickmaker in America
(2001)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Cody Newton, Piper Laurie
Director: Gregg Champion
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Actor Sidney Poitier returns to CBS, the same station which originally broadcast his leading role in 1999's The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn, this time adopting the part of a humble brickmaker in the made-for-television drama The Last Brickmaker in America. Without much pride in his job or ..read more »
 
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David And Lisa
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Lukas Haas, Brittany Murphy
Director: Lloyd Kramer
Certificate: 
David and Lisa are emotionally disturbed teenagers who meet in a mental home under the care of Dr Jack Miller. The story that unfolds is both moving and heart-rending and demonstrates the tremendous healing power of love.
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The Jackal - Blu-ray
(1997)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Certificate: 
An update of THE DAY OF THE JACKAL, this spy thriller offers a seasoned FBI man (Sidney Poitier), a rigid Russian agent (Diane Venora), and a black-sheep IRA terrorist (Richard Gere) teaming up to stop a nasty and extremely well-paid assassin (Bruce Willis) from offing a U.S. official.
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from 86 members
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The Jackal
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
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The Jackal is filmmaking by numbers: take two huge stars, Richard Gere and Bruce Willis, and pit them opposite each other in a plot that's already been audience tested. That director Michael Caton Jones' film is based not on Frederick Forsyth's novel but on the script for the 1973 original starring ..read more »
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A Good Day to Die
(1995)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Michael Moriarty, Joanna Going
Director: David Greene
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Gypsy Smith, is a gunfighter and a bounty hunter. When he leads the US army into a Cheyenne camp to capture a suspected Indian renegade, a long train of events begins that finally lead to that 'good day to die'. White Wolf, only a child, is one of the few survivors of the massacre of his tribe that ..read more »
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Sneakers
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
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A computer expert (Robert Redford) heads a team of renegade hackers who test security systems. His past comes back to haunt him when government agents blackmail the "Sneakers" into carrying out a covert operation: track down an elusive black box filled with national security secrets.
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Separate But Equal
(1991)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster, Richard Kiley
Director: George Stevens Jr.
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This film follows the true story of the NAACP court court challenge of racial school segregation in the Brown vs. Board of Education. This was the struggle would destroy the legal validity for racial segregation in general and prove to be the start and the first major victory of the civil rights ..read more »
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Separate But Equal
(1991)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster, Richard Kiley
Director: George Stevens Jr.
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This film follows the true story of the NAACP court court challenge of racial school segregation in the Brown vs. Board of Education. This was the struggle would destroy the legal validity for racial segregation in general and prove to be the start and the first major victory of the civil rights ..read more »
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Little Nikita
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Bradford
Director: Richard Benjamin
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FBI agent Roy Parmenter (Sidney Poitier) meets young Jeff Grant (River Phoenix) when the teen applies for the Air Force Academy. But some information catches Parmenter's eye and alerts him to the fact that all is not right. He finds that Jeff is the son of sleeper Soviet agents, planted in the US ..read more »
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from 281 members
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Uptown Saturday Night
(1988)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte
Director: Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby team up in this hilarious misadventure as buddies Steve and Wardell, who head uptown to a swanky nightclub. Unfortunately, thieves hit the club and steal Steve's wallet-which happens to hold a winning lottery ticket.
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Deadly Pursuit
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger, Kirstie Alley
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
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Sidney Poitier plays an FBI agent in this action thriller who is on the trail of a murderer who disappears into the mountain wilderness. Forced into this alien environment, Poitier enlists the help of Tom Berenger's expert tracker for whom the quest gets personal when his own girlfriend becomes the ..read more »
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Hanky Panky
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Gilda Radner
Director: Sidney Poitier
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A woman looking for her brother's murderers and an innocent bystander, turned hero, are caught in a world of intrigue, suspense and murder on a wild ride from the Grand Canyon to New York city.
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Stir Crazy
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, JoBeth Williams
Director: Sidney Poitier
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New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe, have no jobs and no prospects. They decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, and land jobs as woodpeckers to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about ..read more »
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from 6,311 members
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Let's Do It Again
(1975)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart
Director: Sidney Poitier
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Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match. Using hypnotism, ..read more »
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Buck And The Preacher
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Cameron Mitchell
Director: Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier directs and stars in this all-black western about an ex-Union Army cavalry soldier leading a group of recently-freed slaves to the western frontier in post-Civil War America. Tagging along with Buck are his wife Ruth (Ruby Dee) and a con man disguised as a preacher (Harry Belafonte, ..read more »
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The Organization
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Barbara McNair, Sheree North
Director: Don Medford
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Sidney Poitier makes his third appearance as Virgil Tibbs in this police thriller. While aiding a group of local vigilantes trying to bust an international drug ring, Tibbs uncovers evidence that ties the police department to organized crime. His discovery, and subsequent investigation, leads him ..read more »
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Brother John
(1970)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Will Geer, Bradford Dillman
Director: James Goldstone
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A mysterious, well-travelled man (Sidney Poitier) with extraordinary knowledge of the past, present and future returns to his hometown of Alabama just before his sister's death. With a watchful eye, he observes the behaviour of all he comes in contact with. Shocked by the racism, prejudice and ..read more »
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For Love Of Ivy
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges
Director: Daniel Mann
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Ivy has been housekeeper and loyal confidante to the Austin family for nine years. When she surprises everyone by announcing that she is leaving, the whole family is devastated and will do anything to make her stay. They feel Ivy's reasons for leaving stem from the lack of a man in her life and so ..read more »
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In the Heat of the Night
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
Director: Norman Jewison
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The winner of the 1967 Oscar for Best Picture (as well as four other Oscars), In the Heat of the Night is set in a small Mississippi town where an unusual murder has been committed. Rod Steiger plays sheriff Bill Gillespie, a good lawman despite his racial prejudices. When Virgil Tibbs (Sidney ..read more »
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Duel At Diablo
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, James Garner, Bibi Andersson
Director: Ralph Nelson
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Based on the novel APACHE RISING by Marvin Albert, this bold and inspired western meets every expectation of its genre. Director Ralph Nelson keeps the pace lively in this Cavalry verses the Indians narrative and puts both James Garner and Sidney Poitier to great use. Garner plays Jess Remsberg, a ..read more »
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The Bedford Incident
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur
Director: James B. Harris
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At the peak of Cold War tensions, a U.S. naval ship discovers a Soviet submarine in the North Atlantic and proceeds to scrutinize its every move. As the crew's Captain Findlander pushes forward intensely, relations between members become strained and a battle of wits ensues. Sidney Poitier plays an ..read more »
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A Patch of Blue
(1965)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman
Director: Guy Green
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When Gordon Ralfe, a handsome, hard-working black man encounters Selina, a blind white girl, he befriends the lonely woman. Her only true friend, Gordon introduces Selina to a whole world beyond the confines of her deprived home life. But given the current racial climate, Gordon's afraid to tell ..read more »
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Pat Boone, John Wayne
Director: George Stevens
Certificate: 
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George Stevens presents his monumental adaptation of the story of Jesus Christ starring Max von Sydow. The film concentrates on the most familiar episodes of the biblical story, including the birth of Christ in Bethlehem, Herod's (Jose Ferrer) decree of the execution of all male children in Judea, ..read more »
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Lilies Of The Field
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann
Director: Ralph Nelson
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Sidney Poitier--who would later star in such unforgettable films as TO SIR, WITH LOVE; GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER and IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT--won an Academy Award for best actor for his standout performance in this modest, beautiful 1963 film. LILIES OF THE FIELD is directed tenderly and with ..read more »
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The Long Ships
(1963)
Starring: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier
Director: Jack Cardiff
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After stealing the Norse king's funeral ship and his beautiful daughter, Gerda (Beba Loncar), Viking brothers Rolfe (Richard Widmark) and Orm (Russ Tamblyn) set off in search of a fabled solid gold bell. During the course of their journey, they encounter a massive storm, a mutinous crew, and troops ..read more »
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Paris Blues
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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The second film of director Martin Ritt with both Paul Newmanand Sidney Poitier, it's set in a city that has long been a haven for black musicians eager to escape the racism of the U.S. Newman is Ram Bowen, a trombone player who makes his living in a jazz group, which also includes tenor man Eddie ..read more »
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A Raisin In The Sun
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands
Director: Daniel Petrie
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Director Daniel Petrie's highly acclaimed drama is a seminal portrait of African American life in the mid-1950s, based on Lorraine Hansberry's ground breaking play, that achieved critical and commercial success at a time when the viability of a black audience or a white crossover audience was not ..read more »
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The Defiant Ones
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Tony Curtis, Charles McGraw
Director: Stanley Kramer
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Convicts Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier escape from a chain gang. Curtis' character, John Joker Jackson, hates blacks, while Poitier's character, Noah Cullen, hates whites. However, the men are manacled together, forced to rely on each other to survive. Captured at one point by a lynch-happy mob, ..read more »
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Band of Angels
(1957)
Starring: Clark Gable, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Director: Raoul Walsh
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Based on a novel by Robert Penn Warren, this Southern potboiler stars Yvonne DeCarlo as Amantha Starr, the daughter of a wealthy Louisiana plantation owner. When her father unexpectedly dies, Amantha discovers that her father was deep in debt and the family is penniless, and she is forced to drop ..read more »
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The Mark Of The Hawk
(1957)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Eartha Kitt
Director: Michael Audley, Gilbert Gunn
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Filmed on location in Africa, THE MARK OF THE HAWK stars Sidney Poitier as a London-educated African who returns to his homeland to take a political post. Poitier's brother Clinton Macklin is in charge of a rebel organization, determine to topple the white-dominated government. Poitier must choose ..read more »
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Wilby Conspiracy
on DVD
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson
Director: Ralph Nelson
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Michael Caine stars as Jim Koegh in this underrated chase movie in which Sidney Poitier plays his unwilling partner, Shack Twala, an African political activist. Shack is on the lam with his new non-friend, Jim, who by mutual agreement has planned to escape. This makes for a great drama about ..read more »
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...This movie with Bruce Willis, Richard Gere and the great old timer Sidney Poitier, should be tense but seems instead a little unbelievable and sociable, even the assassinatio...
