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Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte (2023)
TV Movie | 53 min | Documentary, Biography

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Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte (2023)

TV Movie | 53 min | Documentary, Biography

In 1950, 33-year-old black actor Sidney Poitier starred for the first time in Hollywood history in a film by Joseph Mankiewicz with the prescient title "The Door Opens". When he made his film debut a decade earlier, the self-taught young ...See moreIn 1950, 33-year-old black actor Sidney Poitier starred for the first time in Hollywood history in a film by Joseph Mankiewicz with the prescient title "The Door Opens". When he made his film debut a decade earlier, the self-taught young man, who grew up in the Bahamas before emigrating to New York as a teenager, was not allowed to eat his meals with the rest of the uniformly white studio staff. His character as a young surgeon confronted with racism revealed the hero's potential in a man who, until then, had only played the subordinate roles assigned to "people of color". With just a few carefully selected roles, Sidney Poitier, a staunch activist for the civil rights movement alongside his friend Harry Belafonte, became a star. See less

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Sidney Poitier Self - Subject (archive footage) Self - Subject (archive footage) See fewer	In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Harry Belafonte Self - Friend (archive footage) Self - Friend (archive footage) See fewer	Bobby (I) (2006)
Gregg Champion Self - Director Self - Director See fewer	Stakeout (1987)
Percival Everett Self - Writer Self - Writer See fewer	American Fiction (2023)
Lee Grant Self - Actress Self - Actress See fewer	In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Foster Hirsch Self - Writer Self - Writer See fewer	Beautiful Dreamer (2025)
Tina Lifford Self - Actress Self - Actress See fewer	Blood Work (2002)
Mia Mask Self - Professor of Film Self - Professor of Film See fewer	The Movies (2019)
Oliver Mommsen Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	Tatort (1970)
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Anika Poitier Self - Daughter (archive footage) Self - Daughter (archive footage) See fewer	The Devil Cats (2004)
Sydney Tamiia Poitier Self - Daughter (archive footage) Self - Daughter (archive footage) See fewer	Death Proof (2007)
Sam Ripley Self - Filmstudent Self - Filmstudent See fewer	Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte (2023)
Jay O. Sanders Self - Actor Self - Actor See fewer	The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Joanna Shimkus Self - 2nd Wife (archive footage) Self - 2nd Wife (archive footage) See fewer	The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970)
Constance Towers Self - Actress (as Constance Towers-Gavin) Self - Actress (as Constance Towers-Gavin) See fewer	General Hospital (1963)