found: Gershwin, G. Porgy and Bess, 1959.
found: In the heat of the night [VR] 1998, c1967:opening credits, cast (Sidney Poitier)
found: Montaro Caine, 2013:ECIP t.p. (Sidney Poitier) data view (1st work of fiction)
found: Wikipedia, 03/10/2015(Sidney Poitier is a Bahamian-American actor, film director, author and diplomat; b. February 20, 1927 in Miami, Florida)
found: African American National Biography, accessed September 7, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Poitier, Sidney; stage / screen actor, motion picture producer / director; born 20 February 1927 in Miami, Florida, United States; served in a medical unit during World War II (1944); a successful actor he also worked with Paul Newman and Barbra Streisand, among others, to form First Artists, an independent production company; published two autobiographies; won a Best Actor Tony Award (1960); was the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor (1964); also received two Emmy awards, five NAACP Image awards, Lifetime Achievement awards from American Film Institute and the Screen Actors Guild; knighthood from Queen Elizabeth of England; an Honorary Academy Award (2002); Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009); became the first person of color to recieve a Gala Tribute by the Film Society of Lincoln Center (2011))
found: Washington post WWW site, viewed Jan. 7, 2022(in obituary dated "today": Sidney Poitier, who was the first Black man to win an Academy Award for best actor and who forever changed the perception of African Americans in movies with his powerful and charismatic screen presence, died Jan. 6 at 94. Pamela Poitier said her father died at his home in California. Sidney Poitier was born on Feb. 20, 1927, in Miami, where his parents were on a visit to sell tomatoes they had grown on their farm in the Bahamas. The family soon returned home, to the desperate poverty of Cat Island)
