theGRIO SLIDESHOW - Sidney Poitier, the beloved black film icon, turns 86 years old today...

Five decades ago, at the height of the civil-rights movement, America’s most beloved movie actor was a black man whose three films that year—To Sir, with Love; In the Heat of the Night; and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner—made him king of the Hollywood box office. How the actor’s coolly uncompromising navigation of that status helped send a pointed message to white America.

Sidney Poitier photographed in NYC, 1959

Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen, became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for best lead performance and the first to be a top box-office draw, has died. He was 94.

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Actor, Film Director. Born in Miami, Florida, the son of Bahamian farmers, he was raised on Cat Island until the age of 10 before his family relocated to Nassau. At the age of 15, he briefly moved to Miami to live with his brother's extended family, before relocating to New York City the following year. During the...

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