Sidney Poitier’s filmography speaks for itself. Over the course of his decades-long career, the Hollywood icon, who died in 2022 at the age of 94, starred in classics like A Raisin in the Sun, Guess ...
Eddie Murphy has shared the advice Sidney Poitier gave him after he was approached to star in the 1992 film Malcolm X. Murphy, 63, who shot to fame on Saturday Night Live before establishing himself ...
Sidney Poitier, the renowned Hollywood actor, director and activist who commanded the screen, reshaped the culture and paved the way for countless other Black actors with stirring performances in ...
Based in Philadelphia, Dope Shows has become some of the most prolific independent show promoters in the nation. 3 days ago Born in Miami on February 20th, 1927, Poitier was the seventh child of a ...
During an interview for Apple TV+’s “Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood,” Murphy revealed he bumped into Poitier and brought up that he had been approached to play Alex Haley ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — In 1963, Sidney Poitier made ...
1949 was Hollywood’s year of the racial message movie. In May, Intruder In The Dust told the story of a Black man falsely accused of murdering a white man. July and September saw the release of Lost ...
"I don’t know if it was an insult or a compliment," Murphy says in the new Apple TV+ documentary 'Number One on the Call Sheet' Eddie Murphy made his mark on Hollywood by being not just funny but by ...
Murphy was in talks to portray author Alex Haley in the Norman Jewison-helmed version before Spike Lee took over directing, with Washington as the titular civil rights icon. “They were talking about ...
Actor and director Sidney Poitier on the set of the movie 'Lilies of the Field' for which he won the Academy Award for best actor Legendary actor Sidney Poitier, who broke barriers in 1963 as the ...
Up to this point in his career, Washington had only really played heroes, with both of his previous Oscar-nominated turns ...