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Sidney Poitier with his friends Paul Newman, Barbra Streisand and Steve McQueen, created the independent "First Artist Production Company".
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Sidney Poitier directed his first movie in 1972. The movie was "Buck and Preacher".
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Sidney Poitier is the last of seven brothers.
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Sidney Potier was fired from a his parking cars job because he was not good at driving.
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Sidney Poitier lied to the director to get his first major role in "No Way Out", in 1950; in fact Sidney Poitier told him he was 27, when actually only 22 years old.
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Sidney Poitier is of Haitian ancestry, in fact some of his father's relatives were Haitian.
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Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Sidney Poitier's daughter, is also a successful actress.
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While Sidney Poitier was trying to sing with some actors friends in the Off-Broadway theatre, he found out he was tone deaf.
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Sidney Poitier's movie "Stir Crazy" in 1980 was the highest earning film directed by a black filmmaker until "Scary Movie" in 2000.
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Sidney Poitier has been appointed an Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1974.
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Sidney Poitier spent his first childhood years in Cat Island.
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Sidney Poitier has written two autobiographical books.
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Sidney Poitier's ex brother-in-law is the light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore.
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Sidney Poitier had prostate cancer, and he survived.
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Sidney Poitier can speak fluent Russian.
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His brother is Cyril Poitier.
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When he first came to New York, he was arrested for vagrancy. He was thrown out of his house because he didn't pay the rent.
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Sidney Poitier was involved with voodoo traditions.
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Sidney won an Academy award for Best Actor, in 1963, for his part in the movie, Lillies of the Field.
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Sidney Poitier joined the long list of celebrities lampooned by South Park. It happened in South Park episode 12 entitled "Mecha-Streisand."
