Sidney Poitier married Joanna Shimkus, a Canadian actress, in 1976, and he told PEOPLE in 2016 that "my wife and my children mean the most to me" Sidney Poitier and Joanna Shimkus shared a decades ...

And he was a very good man." The youngest of seven children, Sidney Poitier was born three months premature while his Bahamian parents were in Miami to sell tomatoes. Uncertain whether he would ...

Oscar winner, American actor Sidney Poitier, walks hand-in-hand with one of his five children at Rome’s Fiumicino airport on July 11, 1968, as he and his family arrive here to spend a brief ...

For many white people, children included, he was the first Black male actor they loved. It is at first surprising to see Sidney Poitier talk about himself in an existing interview in Reginald ...

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Sidney Poitier, the first black man to win a best ... He was married twice and had six children. BBC drama The Bombing of Pan Am 103 is also released, and Peter Andre's film Jafaican is coming ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Actor Sidney Poitier died from a combination of ... where he grew up the youngest of seven children, and went on to serve as the Bahamian ambassador to Japan from 1997 ...