selection) Biographies Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon (2004) by historian Aram Goudsouzian. Sidney Poitier Black and White: Sidney Poitier's Emergence in the 1960s as a Black Icon (2020) by Philip Powers. Other works Poitier wrote the novel Montaro Caine (2013). Documentaries Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light (2000) Sidney Poitier, un outsider à Hollywood (2008) Sidney (2022) See also David Hampton, an impostor who posed as Poitier's son "David" in 1983, which inspired the 1990 play and 1993 film Six Degrees of Separation John Stewart, a superhero whose original design was based on Poitier Notes References External links Official publisher web page Poitier breaks new ground with Oscar win (BBC News, April 13, 1964) The Purpose Prize: Sidney Poitier To Sir With Honors (Washington Post, December 3, 1995) Overview of Sidney Poitier's life Artist of the Month: Sidney Poitier at Hyena Productions Sidney Poitier films ranked from worst to best Image of Sidney Poitier holding his Oscar alongside Gregory Peck, Annabella and Anne Bancroft backstage at the Academy Awards, Los Angeles, 1964. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles. 1927 births 2022 deaths 20th-century American male actors 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American male actors 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers AFI Life Achievement Award recipients Academy Honorary Award recipients Actors awarded knighthoods African-American agnostics African-American film directors African-American history of Westchester County, New York African-American male actors African-American non-fiction writers American autobiographers American deists American film directors American film producers American male film actors American male non-fiction writers American male stage actors American male television actors American people of Bahamian descent BAFTA fellows Bahamian diplomats Ambassadors of the Bahamas to Japan Bahamian film directors Bahamian male film actors Bahamian people of American descent Best Actor Academy Award winners Best Drama Actor Golden Globe (film) winners Best Foreign Actor BAFTA Award winners Cecil B. DeMille Award Golden Globe winners Child soldiers in World War II Combat medics Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Deaths from Alzheimer's disease Deaths from cancer in California Deaths from prostate cancer Directors of The Walt Disney Company Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Former Roman Catholics Grammy Award winners Honorary Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Kennedy Center honorees Male actors from Miami Male actors from New