His second [[autobiography]] is entitled ''The Measure of a Man'' - and the measure is not [[race]] but [[character]].
His second [[autobiography]] is entitled ''The Measure of a Man'' - and the measure is not [[race]] but [[character]].
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Poitier played mostly noble, dignified roles.
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Poitier played mostly noble, dignified roles. A more recent film was ''[[The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn]]'', in which he plays a man with an intense devotion to his carpentry work; who indeed built most of the buildings in his small rural town; but who becomes the target of a mean-spirited campaign to take his land away from him by having him declared mentally incompetent.