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Sidney Poitier was one of the most famous black entertainers of the 1960s. Born on Cat Island in the Bahamas, he came to New York to seek work as an actor.
He was known for his groundbreaking roles in dramatic film, [1] such as:
- To Sir, With Love - an unemployed engineer falls back on schoolteaching, and finds he can make a difference in the lot of high school kids in London.
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? - a leading physician for the UN is introduced by his new bride to her well to do, progressive-liberal white family. Oh, yes, he's black! (Remade as the comedy Guess Who with Ashton Kutcher.)
- In the Heat of the Night - a police detective helps break a murder case, after overcoming some initial hostility from sheriff Rod Steiger.
His second autobiography is entitled The Measure of a Man - and the measure is not race but character.