1. Poitier - Noun
2. Poitier - Proper noun
United States film actor and director (born in 1927)
Source: WordNetI was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier. Richard Widmark
I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them. Bernie Mac
My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor. Carl Weathers
Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era. Wesley Morris
The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees. Wesley Morris
It’s been a battle from the beginning: Hattie McDaniel, Sidney Poitier. Source: Internet