Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier (1927 - 2022)
He attended the 1963 March on Washington.
Bahamian Ambassador to Japan (1997 - 2007)
==Film Deaths==
*Edge of the City (A Man Is Ten Feet Tall) (1957) [Tommy Tyler]: Stabbed in the back with a longshoreman's hook at the end of a fight with Jack Warden; he dies in John Cassavetes' arms shortly afterwards.
*The Long Ships (1964) [Prince Aly Mansuh]: Crushed by a large gold bell when it falls and rolls over him during the big battle; he dies shortly afterwards while talking to Richard Widmark. (Thanks to Porsche)
*The Bedford Incident (1965) [Ben Munceford]: Killed in an explosion, along with the rest of the ship's crew, when a Soviet submarine launches a torpedo at them.
==TV Deaths==
*Children of the Dust (1995) [Gypsy Smith]
==Notable Connections==
*Ex-Mr. Juanita Hardy
*Mr. Joanna Shimkus
*Father of Pamela, Anika, and Sydney Tamiia Poitier
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