Turner Classic Movies has a film tribute to Sidney Poitier on Monday, January 18, 2021, with a showing of seven of his top films.
The TCM schedule for Monday, January 18, 2021 (Martin Luther King Day) is:
6:00 AM Edge of the City (1957)
7:30 AM Something of Value (1957)
9:30 AM A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
11:45 AM Lilies of the Field (1963)
1:30 PM A Patch of Blue (1965)
3:30 PM Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
5:30 PM A Warm December (1972)
For more details visit: TCM Schedule January 18
Poitier who turns 94 in February, made 42 films. Read more about him on the TCM website. You can find his autobiography, “The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (2000),” on Amazon.
About Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier (February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian-American actor, film director, and ambassador. In 1964, Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor (on his second nomination) becoming the first black male to win that award. He is the oldest living and earliest surviving Best Actor Academy Award winner. From 1997 to 2007, he served as the Bahamian Ambassador to Japan.
Poitier’s family lived in the Bahamas, then still a British colony, but Poitier was born unexpectedly in Miami while they were visiting for the weekend, which automatically granted him American citizenship. He grew up in the Bahamas, but moved back to Miami aged 15 and to New York when he was 16. He joined the North American Negro Theatre, landing his breakthrough film role as an incorrigible high school student in the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle.
In 1964, he won the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for Lilies of the Field (1963) in which he played a handyman helping a group of German-speaking nuns build a chapel. Poitier also received acclaim for A Raisin in the Sun (1961) and A Patch of Blue (1965).
Below are trailers for Lilies of the Field and A Raisin in the Sun, both of which are showing on TCM on January 18, 2021.
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