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Sidney Poitier, 1927-2022

By Photos by Associated Press

Jan. 7, 2022

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Alex Yanes of Houston, Texas, takes a picture of a cement inscription by the late actor Sidney Poitier in the forecourt of the TCL Chinese Theatre today in Los Angeles. Poitier, the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for best lead performance and the first to be a top box-office draw, died Thursday at 94.
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Flowers lay atop the late actor Sidney Poitier's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, today in Los Angeles.
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Gregg Donovan cleans the late actor Sidney Poitier's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today in Los Angeles.
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Sidney Poitier, star of "To Sir With Love," places his hands in wet cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles on June 23, 1967.
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President Barack Obama presents the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Sidney Poitier during ceremonies in the East Room at the White House in Washington on, Aug. 12, 2009.
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Helen Mirren, Cecil B. Demille recipient Morgan Freeman, Sidney Poitier in the press room during the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012, in Los Angeles.
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Angelina Jolie, left, and Sidney Poitier present the award for best director during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 2, 2014, in Los Angeles.
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Entertainer and activist Harry Belafonte, second from right, and actor Sidney Poitier, right, are shown in court in New York after they volunteered to post bail for a group of civil rights protesters arrested for staging a sit-in at the office of the South African consul general in New York, March 21, 1966. Left to right: William Hall, Cleveland Sellers, Willie Ricks, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee executive scretary James Foreman and SNCC chairman John Lewis.
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Actor Sidney Poitier arrives for a U.S. Postal Service first-day-of-issue dedication ceremony for the Gregory Peck forever stamp at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif., Thursday, April 28, 2011. It features Peck as Atticus Finch in the 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird."
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South African President Nelson Mandela, left, and actor Sidney Poitier appear at a news conference in Cape Town in 1996. Poitier was in South Africa making a film in which he portrays Mandela, alongside Michael Caine, who plays former President F. W. de Klerk in "Mandela and de Klerk," about the country's transition from a white minority government to black majority rule.
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Bahamas' new Ambassador to Japan Sidney Poitier, right, presents his credentials to Emperor Akihito during an imperial palace ceremony in Tokyo Wednesday, April 16, 1997. Poitier, an Oscar-winning actor, doesn't have an embassy here and he will have to work out of an office in the nation's Foreign Ministry in Nassau.
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Actor Sidney Poitier responds to the crowd after being awarded an honorary degree by New York University during graduation ceremonies in New York on Thursday, May 18, 1995.
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Sidney Poitier arrives at Ford's Theatre for its reopening and the bicentennial celebration of Lincoln's birth, in Washington, on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009.
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Actor Sidney Poitier and his daughter Pamela get a good look at the award presented to Poitier during a star-studded tribute to him at New York’s Waldorf Astroria on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 1989.
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Sidney Poitier takes on a pensive appearance during an interview last week in Los Angeles, on March 14, 1988 which he talked in length about a 10-year absence from film acting. “At 50,” says the actor who now is 61, “I decided to see what life was really like outside of the narrow corridor of work…” And, says the star of Disney’s “Shoot to Kill,” “It was wonderful.”
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Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner, left, poses with Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and actor Sidney Poitier, right, during Washington's visit to the Playboy West Mansion in Los Angeles, March 20, 1983.
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Actor/director Sidney Poitier, left, gestures on Wednesday, August 26, 1981 in Boston while speaking with Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner, two of the stars of “Traces,” a comedy currently being filmed in several locations in Boston.
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Oscar winner, American actor Sidney Poitier, teaches swimming to one of his five children, his daughter Gina, in the swimming pool of their Rome hotel July 12, 1968. Poitier and his family are here to spend a brief vacation after having attended the San Sebastino Movie Festival in Spain.
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The head of the U.S. delegation, Sidney Poitier, giving autographs just before the opening of the 14th International Film Festival at the West Berlin congress hall on June 26, 1964 in Berlin.

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