Sidney Poitier, the first black actor to receive an Oscar prize , has died recently.

 

Sidney Poitier, the first black actor to win an Oscar, dies

The first black actor to receive an Oscar proize for Best Actor in a Leading Role and a symbol of racial integration in the United States throughout the 1960s, Mr Sidney Poitier,has died. At the age of 94, he passed away on Friday. His death was announced by the Bahamas Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for which he served as a life ambassador.

He won an Academy Award for his performance in 'The Lilies of the Valley' in 1963, but his greatest film is 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, 1967), wherew he played an amazing son-in-law who presented the racist prejudices of an American middle-class husband and wife starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.

He was the teacher who sacrificed his skin for his students in the anti-war picture 'State of Alert' with Richard Widmark, 'Now they call me Mr Tibbs,' and the fabled 'Rebellion in the Classrooms,' in which he played the teacher who sacrificed his skin for his students.

He's also directed films like 'It Happened on a Saturday,' 'Let's Do It Again,' and 'Crazy of Auction,' which he co-wrote with his friend Bill Cosby (starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder).

In the year 2002, 38 years had passed.