Sidney Poitier
31 films · 1 series
Kay Dickinson names a subgenre in her British Film Institute review, the teacher film, and fixes its standard to a single performance: the hero she is writing about is not as easy to take sides with as Sidney Poitier in To Sir, with Love. Kim Newman, in a separate piece, treats a 1963 role of his as the forerunner of the civilised voice later given a Muslim face. Something only our own data shows: he directed five of his thirty-one titles here, and he opens the cast of four of those five. Berlin's Silver Bear for Best Actor came to him twice, five years apart, for The Defiant Ones and then for Lilies of the Field.
Where to Start with Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier appears in 31 films in the Pulse of Cinema catalogue. The highest Pulse-rated are In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, To Sir, with Love, a strong place to start exploring Sidney Poitier's work.
