Sidney Poitier, the depiction of a predetermined and dignified hero in films such as “for sir with love,” In the heat of the night “and” guess who came for dinner “solidified him as Hollywood’s Black Matinee Idol and helped open the door for actors Black actors in the film industry, have died at 94.
There is no cause of death immediately given.
Poitier, the Academy Award for the 1963 film “Lili Field” made it the first black player who won the best actor category, rose to stand out when the civil rights movement began to make progress in the US.
His role tends to reflect the purpose of peaceful integration of the struggle.
Even though it often boils with a depressed anger, his character responds to injustice with calm resolution.
They met with hatred for reasons and forgiveness, sent a convincing message to white viewers and exposed poibier to attack as Uncle Tom when the civil rights movement took a mowery turn in the late 1960s.
“This is a choice, a clear choice,” he said about his film in the interview 1967.
“If the community fabric is different, I will shout into a high paradise to play criminals and to handle various images of Negro life that will be more dimension.
But I will be damned if I am do that at the stage of this game.
“At that time, Poitier was one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood and the Top Box-Office lottery, the fifth place among men’s actors in the owner’s poll and critics of the box office magazine, behind Richard Burton, Lee Marvin and John Wayne.
But the racial squeamishness will not allow Hollywood to throw it as a romantic guide.
“To think of American Negroes in a social-sex-sex situation it is difficult, you know,” he told a interviewer.
“And the reason why legion and too much to enter.” Poitier often finds himself limiting, the holy role that results in an important progress in the condescending sections offered by Hollywood in the past.
The Best-Actor award came in 1964 for his appearance in “Lili fields,” as a traveling crowd who helped a group of German nuns build a church.
In 1967, Poitier appeared in three best-selling films, lifting it to the top of his popularity.
“In the middle of the night” placing it across the steger stem, as a slow sheriff, with whom Virgil Tibbs, the detective played by Poitier, must work on an inquiry of murder.
(In an indelible line, the detective confirms the respect of Sheriff when he states, “They call me Mr.
Tibbs!”) In “Sir, with love” he is a teacher concerned in a strong London Middle School, and in “Guess who is what Come for dinner, “he played a doctor whose race tested the liberal principles of his prospective rights, played by Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.
Throughout his career, heighs severely from the racial significance of the bore in the poiiter and the character he played.
“I feel very nice as if I represent 15, 18 million people with every movement that I made,” he said.
Sidney Poitier, who paved the way for black actors, died
