Question: What is Sidney Poitier 's role in a show that remained on television until 1981 ?

text: Sidney Poitier
Filmography -- Television

Sidney Poitier, KBE (/ˈpwɑːtieɪ/; born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian-American actor and film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor, the first black actor to win that award, and was nominated a second time. In addition, he was nominated six times for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award (BAFTA) for Best Foreign Actor, winning each once. From 1997 to 2007, he served as the Bahamian Ambassador to Japan. His family lived in the Bahamas, but Poitier was born in Miami while they were visiting, thereby acquiring American citizenship. He grew up in the Bahamas, moving to New York when he was 16. He joined the North American Negro Theatre, landing his breakthrough film role as an incorrigible high school student in the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle. In 1958, Poitier starred with Tony Curtis in the critically acclaimed The Defiant Ones as chained-together convicts who escape and must cooperate. Each received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor, with Poitier's being the first for a black actor, as well as nominations for the BAFTAs, which Poitier won. In 1964, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor[a] for his role in Lilies of the Field (1963) in which he played a handyman who stays with and helps a group of German-speaking nuns build a chapel. Poitier also received critical acclaim for A Raisin in the Sun (1961) and A Patch of Blue (1965). He continued to break ground in three successful 1967 films, each dealing with issues of race and race relations: To Sir, with Love; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and In the Heat of the Night, making him the top box-office star of that year.
Year Title Role Notes
1962 The Jack Paar Tonight Show Himself 1 episode
1969 The Mike Douglas Show Himself 1 episode
1972 The Dick Cavett Show Himself 1 episode
1972 The New Bill Cosby Show Himself 1 episode
1975 The Merv Griffin Show Himself 1 episode
1979 The Mike Douglas Show Himself 1 episode
1991 Separate but Equal Thurgood Marshall Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film
1995 Children of the Dust Gypsy Smith Nominated - NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie , Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
1996 To Sir , with Love II Mark Thackeray
1997 Mandela and de Klerk Nelson Mandela Nominated - CableACE Award for Best Actor in a Movie or Miniseries Nominated - NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie , Mini-Series or Dramatic Special Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
1998 David and Lisa Dr. Jack Miller
1999 The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn Noah Dearborn NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie , Mini-Series or Dramatic Special Nominated - Black Reel Award for Best Actor : T.V . Movie/Cable
1999 Free of Eden Will Cleamons
2000-2007 The Oprah Winfrey Show Himself 5 episodes
2001 The Last Brickmaker in America Henry Cobb
2008 Larry King Live Himself 1 episode