Sidney Poitier

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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Army Archerd

Army Archerd on being on the set of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" for Spencer Tracy's last scene

00:40

LeVar Burton

LeVar Burton on wanting to be Sidney Poitier when he grew up

00:42

LeVar Burton on his wish to do a biopic of Sidney Poitier

00:44

Diahann Carroll

Diahann Carroll on Sidney Poitier

00:40

Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee on the film "No Way Out" with Sidney Poitier and Ossie Davis

00:59

Ruby Dee on A Raisin in the Sun and Buck the Preacher

00:48

Gerald Perry Finnerman

Gerald Finnerman on working in feature film with Sidney Poitier

07:14

Gerald Perry Finnerman on exiting Star Trek in 1968 to work on a feature starring Sidney Poitier and directed by Robert Alan Aurthur

08:26

Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg on seeing Sidney Poitier in the film In the Heat of the Night and the impact he had on the industry (and on the viewing audience in the movie theater)

04:11

Louis Gossett, Jr.

Louis Gossett, Jr. on appearing with Sidney Poitier in the feature film adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun"

08:19

Allison Janney

Allison Janney on working with Sidney Poitier in the TV movie David and Lisa

02:26

Isabel Sanford

Isabel Sanford on working with Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, and Sidney Poitier in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?"

09:15

Edgar J. Scherick

Edgar Scherick on developing the film For Love of Ivy

00:41

Nina Shaw

Nina Shaw on a comment by Sidney Poitier on just wanting to be an actor some days, but having to be both an actor and a civil rights advocate

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Nina Shaw on her father becoming Sidney Poitier's chauffeur

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