Sidney Poitier
First Black actor to win the Best Actor Oscar (1964); also one of the first major Black film directors.
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Born 1927 to Bahamian parents in Miami. Won for Lilies of the Field. Directed Stir Crazy (1980) and Buck and the Preacher (1972). Knighted in 1974.
Location
Miami, FL, USA
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