Sidney Poitier, First Black Man To Win Oscar For Best Actor, Dies At Age 94: Reports

Did he play Benson? Originally Posted by winn dixie

no. Robert Guillaume played that role. Poitier did very little TV in his career.

... Uh, .. I reckon I must be missing something.
I'm not seeing how THIS thread is political in nature.

Sidney Poitier... "Mr. Tibbs"...

... Oh, Blimey! ... Sorry. -- I surely understand it now.

Gillespie - the racist, black-hating sheriff - was a Democrat.

Now that clears it up.

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I’m Buck……

https://youtu.be/7tWgwG2Jn2c Originally Posted by Jackie S

so they made a movie about some enterprising bank robbers? lol. Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

checked this movie out. not what i expected. lol.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068323/

this is probably one of the earliest anti-white supremacist movie. i'm sure there are a few of them out there.

poitier directed this movie, his first directorial debut.

i demand all the racist skanks who down voted this thread to self-ban themselves from ECCIE permanently!



BAAHHHAAAA

To Sir with Love had a great theme song.


Sidney Poitier had class.


If only there was more of that in this forum.