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1 of 27 Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier and Diana Sands in "A Rasin in the Sun" in 1954.Photo: Getty Images
2 of 27 Sidney Poitier as Noah Cullen and Tony Curtis (1925 - 2010) as John 'Joker' Jackson, in 'The Defiant Ones', directed by Stanley Kramer, in 1958.Photo: Getty Images
3 of 27 On the set of the movie 'Lilies of the Field' for which he won the Academy Award for best actor, in Tuscon, Arizona.Photo: Getty Images
4 of 27 American actor Sidney Poitier (left) listens to singer Harry Belafonte (center) as actor Charleton Heston (1923 - 2008) stands with them in the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, in Washington DC on August 28, 1963.Photo: Getty Images
5 of 27 Actors (left to right) Harry Belafonte, Charlton Heston, Burt Lancaster and Sidney Poitier attending the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a huge civil rights rally in Washington DC on August 28, 1963. Photo: Getty Images
6 of 27 Academy Award winning actor Sidney Poitier holding the Oscar for his role in 'Lilies of the Field' in 1964. Photo: Getty Images
7 of 27 Sidney Poitier holds his Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for 'Lilies Of The Field'.Photo: Getty Images
8 of 27 Sidney Poitier looks into a mirror and smiles while holding his Best Actor Oscar for director Ralph Nelson's film, 'Lilies of the Field', backstage at the Academy Awards in Santa Monica, California.Photo: Getty Images
9 of 27 At the 36th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on April 13, 1964.Photo: Getty Images
10 of 27 Attending the Governors Ball after the 36th Academy Awards.Photo: Getty Images
11 of 27 On the set of 'To Sir, With Love'.Photo: Getty Images
12 of 27 Katherine Houghton puts flower Sidney Poitier's hair in a scene from the film 'Guess Who's Coming To Dinner', in 1967.Photo: Getty Images
13 of 27 With jazz singer Abbey Lincoln in September 1967. Photo: Getty Images
14 of 27 Supporting the Poor People's Campaign at Resurrection City.Photo: Getty Images
15 of 27 Beverly Todd and Sidney Poitier sit in a theatre in a scene from the film 'The Lost Man' in 1969.Photo: Getty Images
16 of 27 Sidney admires his honorary Oscar 24 March, 2002 at the 74th Academy Awards in Hollywood, CA. Photo: Getty Images
17 of 27 With Denzel Washington.Photo: Getty Images
18 of 27 Halle Berry (L) presents US actor Sidney Poitier with the Brass Ring Award at the 15th Carousel of Hope Ball, a charity gala for childhood diabetes.Photo: Getty Images
19 of 27 Sidney Poitier and Barbara Davis.Photo: Getty Images
20 of 27 With his daughter, Sydney Tamiia Poitier.Photo: Getty Images
21 of 27 Barack Obama (R) presents the Medal of Freedom to Academy Award-winning actor Sidney Poitier during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on August 12, 2009.Photo: Getty Images
22 of 27 With Morgan Freeman. Photo: Getty Images North America
23 of 27 Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte attend the 43rd NAACP Image Awards.Photo: Getty Images
24 of 27 Arriving to the 86th Annual Academy Awards.Photo: Getty Images
25 of 27 Actor Sidney Poitier attends the Brigitte and Bobby Sherman Children's Foundation's 6th Annual Christmas Gala.Photo: Getty Images
26 of 27 Sidney during the 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival.Photo: Getty Images
27 of 27 Sidney Poitier and his wife, Joanna Shimkus.Photo: Getty Images