Sidney Poitier, groundbreaking star of American movies ... Poitier first played the role on stage, with actor Glynn Turman as Walter's son Travis. "We were in Chicago and it was just freezing ...

Sidney Poitier, the legendary actor and activist who broke racial barriers in Hollywood, has died at 94. A source close to the family confirmed Poitier's death to NBC News. As the son of poor ...

Sidney Poitier, whose elegant bearing and principled ... ‘Don’t worry about your son. He will survive,’ ” Poitier told CBS News in 2013. “And these were her words; she said, ‘He ...

He even purchased a tiny casket, certain his son's life would soon end ... far from their six children, nursing Sidney back to health." Sidney Poitier in 1961's "A Raisin in the Sun," one of ...

David Hampton became infamous for conning New Yorkers into thinking he was the son of famous actor Sidney Poitier Sidney Poitier, who died at age 94 on Thursday, didn't star in Will Smith's 1993 ...

Sidney Poitier, the beloved Oscar-winning actor ... who was born in Miami and raised in the Bahamas, the son of tomato farmers, before launching a career that went from small, hard-won theater ...

Sidney Poitier, the legendary star who was the first ... "The lady took her hand and started speaking to my mother: 'Don't worry about your son. He will survive,'" Poitier recalled.

Sidney Poitier was the first Black actor to win the ... “Cast as the restless son, he vividly communicates the tumult of a high-strung young man. He is as eloquent when he has nothing to say ...

Sidney Poitier has died at the age of 94 ... You got a job, a fine wife, a son. Yes. POITIER: (As Walter Lee Younger) A job? No, I open and close car doors all day. I drive a man around in ...

Obituary: Trailblazing star Sidney Poitier, first Black man to win best ... Poitier's mother refused to believe her son would die, so "she visited a soothsayer, a reader of tea leaves," Poitier ...

Sydney Poitier, the charismatic actor with the smooth-toned voice and intense gaze, rose to stardom in the 1960s. Honored by ...

“Sidney,” a documentary tribute to the trailblazing Black movie star Sidney Poitier, was produced by Oprah Winfrey, and it leans far more toward one-dimensional inspiration than insigh ...