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elleng

(141,926 posts) Sat Feb 20, 2021, 08:26 PM Feb 2021

Happy Birthday, Sidney Poitier.

8:00 PM -- Lilies of the Field (1963)
1h 34m | Comedy | TV-PG
An itinerant handyman in the Southwest gets a new outlook on life when he helps a group of German nuns build a chapel.

10:00 PM -- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
1h 48m | Comedy | TV-PG
The daughter of a well-to-do white family comes home from a vacation to announce her intention to marry a black doctor.

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Happy Birthday, Sidney Poitier. (Original Post) elleng Feb 2021 OP

94 years young! His friend Harry Belafonte will hit 94 next month! cornball 24 Feb 2021 #1

Loved this one. sheshe2 Feb 2021 #2

If you've never seen it, hunt down the 1962 film Pressure Point TexasBushwhacker Feb 2021 #3

Just watched the Trailer and one scene. sheshe2 Feb 2021 #4

One of my all-time favorite actors DFW Feb 2021 #5

cornball 24

(1,581 posts)

1. 94 years young! His friend Harry Belafonte will hit 94 next month!

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sat Feb 20, 2021, 08:42 PM

Feb 2021

sheshe2

(97,654 posts)

2. Loved this one.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sat Feb 20, 2021, 08:46 PM

Feb 2021

and this

TexasBushwhacker

(21,204 posts)

3. If you've never seen it, hunt down the 1962 film Pressure Point

Reply to sheshe2 (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 20, 2021, 08:53 PM

Feb 2021

Pointer plays a prison psychiatrist dealing with an American Nazi (Bobby Darin) who is incarcerated for sedition.

sheshe2

(97,654 posts)

4. Just watched the Trailer and one scene.

Reply to TexasBushwhacker (Reply #3)

Sat Feb 20, 2021, 09:17 PM

Feb 2021

Loved his films and voice. Will find the movie.

Thank you.

DFW

(60,210 posts)

5. One of my all-time favorite actors

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sun Feb 21, 2021, 06:14 AM

Feb 2021

Prince of a guy, too. We ran into him at some lounge at the Montréal Expo of 1967, when he was already a big star. He was a gracious and as friendly as if he had not been famous at all.

My all-time favorite Poitier film was In The Heat Of The Night:

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