Sidney Poitier
  • Harry Belafonte carries his own tune in HBO's 'Sing Your Song'

    ...Sing Your Song" traces the icon's life through his own words and those of such associates as Oscar winner Sidney Poitier and former South African president Nelson Mandela . "I am so pleased," Grammy, Tony and Emmy recipient......

  • Morgan Freeman honored with AFI Life Achievement Award

    ...Freeman make for an extremely dangerous red carpet -- Christie D'Zurilla Top photo: Clint Eastwood, left, Sidney Poitier and Morgan Freeman at the AFI Life Achievement Award tribute to Freeman in Culver City on June 9, 2011. Credit......

  • Hollywood A-listers -- and one D-lister -- flock to the Carousel of Hope ball in Beverly Hills

    ...how eclectic are her friendships in the entertainment industry. She was flanked by two longtime family friends -- Sidney Poitier to her left and legendary music producer Clive Davis to her right. Later, as Gladys Knight belted out "Midnight......

  • Variety columnist Army Archerd dies at 87

    ...included Kirk Douglas , Gregory Peck and Sidney Poitier . The audience included Warren Beatty ...reeled off a few: Paul Newman , Gregory Peck, Sidney Poitier, Kirk Douglas. "How about their phone numbers......

  • Movie Review: 'Traitor'

    ...highly conflicted Muslim, Cheadle recalls a variety of old-school stars?everyone from Spencer Tracy to Sidney Poitier ?in the way he keeps it simple and puts the story needs ahead of his own. The story was cooked up by Steve......

  • Oscar Winner Sydney Pollack Dies at 73

    ...episodic television before turning to films. Beginning with "The Slender Thread," a 1965 drama starring Sidney Poitier and Anne Bancroft , Pollack was credited with directing 20 films, including "They Shoot Horses, Don......

  • Don Cheadle Mouths Off in 'Talk to Me'

    ...pull of Petey and Dewey. Cheadle gets substantial comic mileage from Petey's characterization of Dewey as a Sidney Poitier sellout. But it is Dewey's "Mr. Tibbs"-ian politesse (combined with some desperation tactics probably......

  • Brett Ratner Reads 'Playboy'

    ...desire to also recruit Chris Tucker , Dave Chappelle , Jamie Foxx , Denzel Washington and Sidney Poitier . That film, originally written by Russell Gewirtz for Imagine, is going through a rewriter. Whichever script......

  • Emmy-winning actor Browne Dies at 81

    ...Two Trains Running." "He was one of the most remarkable presences on stage, on film, on television," Sidney Poitier , who directed Browne in the 1974 comedy "Uptown Saturday Night" and knew him for about 40 years, told The Times......

  • Oprah Matches Up Oscar Winners for ABC

    ...Russell Crowe ; and Foxx selected screen icon Sidney Poitier . Following is the Academy Award history of...in the previous year's "Lilies of the Field," Sidney Poitier made Oscar history as the first black performer named......

  • Actress-Singer McNair Dies

    ...ways. We don't all have wide noses and full lips." McNair, a versatile performer who starred opposite Sidney Poitier and Rock Hudson , and described herself as the first African American woman to host a musical variety show......

  • Oprah, ABC Team for Oscar Special

    ... will sit down with fellow Aussie Russell Crowe and Jamie Foxx will interview one of his idols, Sidney Poitier . Winfrey will executive produce the show, but ABC's announcement makes no mention of whether she'll appear......

  • 'Munsters' Star De Carlo Dies

    ...1950s, when she played Moses' ( Charlton Heston ) wife in "The Ten Commandments" and starred opposite Sidney Poitier and Clark Gable in "Band of Angels." Her other movie credits include "McClintock," "Munster, Go Home......

  • 'Cleopatra Jones' Star Dies

    ...modeling on the side. The piece also noted that she had enrolled in acting classes on the advice of a friend, actor Sidney Poitier . She appeared in magazines including Vogue, Essence and Mademoiselle, was on the cover of Redbook and posed......

  • Brady Thankfully Doesn't Hate 'Chris'

    Guess who's coming to dinner? Hint: It's not Sidney Poitier . "Celebrity Duets" host Wayne Brady will visit The CW for the Thanksgiving episode of " Everybody......

  • Connery Receives Top Film Honor

    ...include James Cagney , Bette Davis , James Stewart , Jack Lemmon , Gregory Peck , Sidney Poitier , Clint Eastwood , Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand . Connery, 75, was born Thomas Connery......

  • ABC Picks 'Raisin' with Combs

    ...first play written by an African-American woman to be produced on Broadway; its original cast in 1959 included Sidney Poitier , Ruby Dee and Louis Gossett Jr. They also reprised their roles in a 1961 feature film. Kenny Leon......

  • ABC Lines Up Oprah's 'Legends'

    ... In addition to the honorees, among those in attendance at the weekend's events were Halle Berry , Sidney Poitier , Angela Bassett , Tom Cruise , Barbra Streisand , Sen. Barack Obama , Maria Shriver......