Sidney Poitier
Bahamian and American actor and diplomat (1927–2022)
0.39body-of-work score · ranked #1550 of 2640 directors · 2 films in our library
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- Born
- February 20, 1927 · Miami
- Died
- January 6, 2022 · Los Angeles
- Nationality
- United States, The Bahamas
- Directing career
- 9 directorial credits, 1972–1990 · first: Buck and the Preacher (1972) · last: Ghost Dad (1990)
- Work
- film actor, film director, diplomat, autobiographer
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 10.231 citation
- 20.161 citation
Complete filmography
All 9 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1972Buck and the Preacher
- 1973A Warm December
- 1974Uptown Saturday Night
- 1975Let's Do It Again
- 1977A Piece of the Action
- 1980Stir Crazy
- 1982Hanky Panky
- 1985Fast Forward
- 1990Ghost Dad
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