Sidney Poitier died of heart failure, dementia and prostate cancer, death certificate says.
The certificate, issued by Los Angeles County, noted that Poitier’s career as an actor spanned 76 years.in American history, making his mark as the first Black man to win an Academy Award for best actor.His first notable performing role was in 1946, when he made his Broadway debut in “Lysistrata.”The actor starred in a string of landmark films in the 1960s, including “Lilies of the Field,” “A Patch of Blue,” “To Sir, With Love,” “In the Heat of the Night” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.
His performance in “Lilies of the Field” earned him the groundbreaking Oscar, and he would remain the only Black man to win an Oscar until Denzel Washington in 2002. In addition to his Academy Award, Poitier was lauded with numerous accolades, including a Kennedy Center Honors in 1995, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009, two Golden Globe awards , and a Grammy for narrating his autobiography, “The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography,” published in 2000.
That same year, Poitier received an honorary Oscar “in recognition of his remarkable accomplishments as an artist and as a human.” Poitier retired from screen acting in 2000 and went on to pen numerous books, in addition to his autobiography, he also wrote “Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter,” in 2008; and a novel, “Montaro Caine,” in 2013.Poitier is survived by his wife, Joanna Shimkus, a retired actress from Canada; and five daughters: two — Anika and Sydney Tamiaa — with Shimkus; and three — Beverly, Pamela, and Sherri — with his first wife, Juanita Hardy. His daughter Gina died in 2018.
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