Sidney Poitier, trailblazing star who helped break down Hollywood color barriers, dies at 94
Sidney Poitier, who helped break down Hollywood’s onscreen color barriers before becoming one of the top box-office draws of the 1960s in movies such as “In the Heat of the Night” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” has died.
Poitier, the first Black man to win a competitive Academy Award for best actor and a towering role model for succeeding generations, died in the Bahamas, according to the office of Frederick A. Mitchell, Bahamian minister of foreign affairs and immigration. More information will be forthcoming at a news conference. Poitier was 94.
Tall and handsome, with a low and seductively smooth voice and what one writer called an “almost princely bearing,” Poitier projected an air of quiet dignity in roles that shattered stereotypes. ...
https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2022-01-07/sidney-poitier-dead
