Uptown Saturday Night
Uptown Saturday Night is a 1974 American action comedy crime film written by Richard Wesley and directed by and starring Sidney Poitier, with Bill Cosby and Harry Belafonte co-starring.
Cosby and Poitier teamed up again for "Let's Do It Again" (1975) and "A Piece of the Action" (1977).
Although their characters have different names in each film, the three films are considered to be a trilogy. "
Uptown Saturday Night" premiered June 15, 1974 at the Criterion Theatre in New York, and opened to positive reviews.
Sidney Poitier
Sir Sidney Poitier,( born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian- American actor and film director.
He received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor, winning one, the first black actor to win that award.
He was also nominated six times for each of the Golden Globe 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 in 1950 as an incorrigible high school student in" Blackboard Jungle"( 1955).
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 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 LoveGuess Who's Coming to Dinner", and" In the Heat of the Night", making him the top box- office star of that year.
He received nominations for the Golden Globes and BAFTAs for the latter film, but not for the Oscars, likely due to vote splitting between his roles.
After twice reprising his Virgil Tibbs character from" In the Heat of the Night" and acting in a variety of other films, including the thriller" The Wilby Conspiracy"( 1975), with Michael Caine, Poiter turned to acting/ directing with the action- comedies" Uptown Saturday Night"( 1974)," Let's Do It Again"( 1975), and" A Piece of the Action"( 1978), all co-starring Bill Cosby.
During a decade away from acting he directed the successful" Stir Crazy"( 1980) starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, among other films.
He returned to acting in the late 1980s and early 1990s in a few thrillers and television roles.
Poitier was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1974.
In 2009 Poitier was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor.
In 2016, he was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship for outstanding lifetime achievement in film.
In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Poitier 22nd on their list of Greatest Male Stars of classic Hollywood cinema.
In 2002 Poitier was chosen to receive an Academy Honorary Award, in recognition of his" remarkable accomplishments as an artist and as a human being".
Claude Weisz
Claude Weisz is a French film director born in Paris.
Rudeness (film)
Rudeness is a 1975 film directed by Marino Girolami.
David Anspaugh
David Anspaugh( born September 24, 1946) is an American television and film director.
Let's Do It Again (1975 film)
Let's Do It Again is a 1975 American action crime comedy film directed by and starring Sidney Poitier and co-starring Bill Cosby and Jimmie Walker, among an all- star black cast.
The film, directed by Poitier, is about blue- collar workers who decide to rig a boxing match to raise money for their fraternal lodge.
The song of the same name by The Staple Singers was featured as the opening and ending theme of the movie, and as a result, the two have become commonly associated with each other.
The production companies include Verdon Productions and The First Artists Production Company, Ltd., and distributed by Warner Bros.
The movie was filmed in two cities, Atlanta, Georgia and New Orleans, Louisiana, where most of the plot takes place.
This was the second film pairing of Poitier and Cosby following" Uptown Saturday Night", and followed by" A Piece of the Action"( 1977).
Of the three," Let's Do It Again" has been the most successful both critically and commercially.
Calvin Lockhart and Lee Chamberlin also appeared in" Uptown Saturday Night".
According to the American Film Institute," Let's Do It Again" is not a sequel to" Uptown Saturday Night."
Moonlight and Honeysuckle
Moonlight and Honeysuckle is a 1921 American silent romantic comedy film produced and released by the Realart Company.
It is based on a 1919 Broadway play," Moonlight and Honeysuckle", by George Scarborough and starring Ruth Chatterton.
The film version starred Mary Miles Minter in the Chatterton role and was by Joseph Henabery.
" Moonlight and Honeysuckle" is now considered to be a lost film.
Moonlight and Valentino
Moonlight and Valentino is a 1995 comedy- drama film directed by David Anspaugh starring Elizabeth Perkins, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kathleen Turner, Whoopi Goldberg and Jon Bon Jovi.
The screenplay by Ellen Simon is based on her semi-autobiographical play of the same title.
A Piece of the Action (film)
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Piece of the Action is a 1977 American crime comedy film directed by and starring Sidney Poitier and co-starring Bill Cosby.
It was the third film pairing of Poitier and Cosby, following" Uptown Saturday Night"( 1974) and" Let's Do It Again"( 1975).
The films are considered a trilogy, even though the actors play characters with different names in each film.
It was also Poitier's last acting role for more than a decade, as he focused his attentions on directing only.
W. Augustus Barratt
W. Augustus Barratt( 1873- 1947) was a Scottish- born, later American, songwriter and musician.

Question: Which film has the director born later, Moonlight And Valentino or Let'S Do It Again (1975 Film)?
Answer: Moonlight And Valentino