The original 22-member Board of Trustees included Chair Gregory Peck and Vice Chair Sidney Poitier as well as Francis Ford Coppola, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Jack Valenti and other representatives from the arts and academia.

* 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

Rhyming slang is used, then described and a number of examples suggested as part of dialogue in one scene of the 1967 film To Sir With Love starring Sidney Poitier.

Also sung by Gregory Miller ( played by Sidney Poitier ) in the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle.

In August 1963, he participated in the March on Washington along with fellow celebrities Harry Belafonte, James Garner, Charlton Heston, Burt Lancaster, and Sidney Poitier.

** Sidney Poitier, American actor

Set in South Africa and starring Michael Caine and Sidney Poitier, the film was an action melodrama with a focus on apartheid.

In Blackboard Jungle, a 1955 film starring Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier, Beiderbecke's music is briefly featured, but as a symbol of cultural conservatism in a nation on the cusp of the rock and roll revolution.

In the late 1950s, his work in films took the shape of scoring for soundtracks, notably Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ), with James Stewart, in which he appeared fronting a roadhouse combo, and Paris Blues ( 1961 ), which featured Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as jazz musicians.

Sydney Tamiia Poitier, the youngest daughter of Sidney Poitier, played FBI agent Carrie Rivai.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner explores the topic of interracial marriage, with Tracy playing a liberal-minded newspaper publisher whose values are challenged when his daughter wishes to marry a black man, played by Sidney Poitier.

He won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Chief of Police Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night ( 1967 ) opposite Sidney Poitier.

Later, as " Tony Curtis ", he cemented his reputation with breakthrough performances such as in the role of the scheming press agent Sidney Falco in Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ) with Burt Lancaster ( who also starred in Criss Cross ) and an Oscar-nominated performance as a bigoted white escaped convict chained to the black Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 American drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, and featuring Hepburn's niece Katharine Houghton.

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy as Christina and Matt Drayton. The film tells the story of Joanna " Joey " Drayton ( Katharine Houghton ), a young white woman who has had a whirlwind romance with Dr. John Prentice ( Sidney Poitier ), a young, idealistic black physician she met while in Hawaii.

* Sidney Poitier as Dr. John Prentice

According to Kramer, he and Rose intentionally structured the film to debunk ethnic stereotypes ; the young doctor, a typical role for the young Sidney Poitier, was purposely created idealistically perfect, so that the only possible objection to his marrying Joanna would be his race, or the fact she had only known him for ten days: the character has thus graduated from a top school, begun innovative medical initiatives in Africa, refused to have premarital sex with his fiancée despite her willingness, and leaves money in an open container on his future father-in-law's desk in payment for a long distance phone call he has made.

According to Sidney Poitier:

A bust of Spencer Tracy sculpted by Hepburn herself was used as a prop, on the bookshelf behind the desk where Sidney Poitier makes his phone call.

Sidney Poitier frequently found himself star-struck and as a result, a bit tongue-tied, in the presence of Hepburn and Tracy, whom he considered to be " giants " as far as acting is concerned.

Mac said of the script, " They want to make it a comedy, but I won't disrespect Spencer, Katharine or Sidney ( Poitier ).

* Sidney Poitier about his children becoming president

The plot of the play was inspired by the real-life story of David Hampton, a con man who managed to convince a number of people in the 1980s that he was the son of actor Sidney Poitier.

Her debut movie role was as " Emma Jones " in Elmer Rice's Street Scene ( 1931 ), which starred Sylvia Sidney, and in which Bondi reprised her stage role, followed by " Mrs. Davidson " in Rain ( 1932 ), which starred Joan Crawford and Walter Huston.

Among modern critics of the theory of Great Man one should mention Sidney Hook, whose book The Hero in History is devoted to the role of the hero and in history and influence of the outstanding persons.

Fonda got the nod for the lead role in You Only Live Once ( 1937 ), also costarring Sidney, and directed by Fritz Lang.

Charles Sidney Gilpin was the first actor to play the role of Brutus Jones on stage and O ' Neill said later that he was the only actor who had played an O ' Neill character to O ' Neill's full satisfaction.

Tony Curtis had to fight for the role of Sidney Falco because Universal, the studio to which he was contracted, was worried that it would ruin his career.

Sidney Fields, in the his role as Professor Mellonhead, was the " fill-in " manager in the absence of Abbott and performed the straightman role with Lou Costello.

In the 1950s, another transportation element, the Interstate Highway, would play a significant role in the development of Sidney which later helped earn its title " All-America City " in 1964.

His first major feature film role was in the 1969 film, The Lost Man starring Sidney Poitier.

Prior to their nominations, and Diana Ross for Lady Sings the Blues the same year with Winfield and Tyson, only three other African Americans-Dorothy Dandridge, Sidney Poitier and James Earl Jones-had ever been nominated for a leading role.

In the 1960s he starred in such films as The Children's Hour with Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine, The Thrill of It All and Move Over, Darling ( a remake of My Favorite Wife in which Garner played Cary Grant's role ), both with Doris Day, Boys ' Night Out with Kim Novak and Tony Randall ; The Great Escape with Steve McQueen, The Americanization of Emily with Julie Andrews, Duel at Diablo with Sidney Poitier, and The Art of Love with Dick Van Dyke.

When casting the role of Sidney Mussburger, " Warner Bros. suggested all sorts of names ," remembered Joel.

Playing both tenor and soprano saxophones, Shorter continued to develop the role of the latter instrument in jazz, taking his cue from previous work by Coltrane, Sidney Bechet, Lucky Thompson and Steve Lacy.

Isaac Sidney " Sid " Caesar ( born September 8, 1922 ) is an Emmy award winning American comic actor and writer best known for the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, and for his role as Coach Calhoun in Grease and Grease 2.

However they were developed in significant ways by 20th century theorists like Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba, who identified the role of political culture in a democratic order as vital.

More recently, Paddy Lowe, the director of the Formula One team McLaren was at Sidney Sussex, as was Carol Vorderman, the popular television host, known primarily for her role on the game show Countdown.

Mary Elizabeth Hartman ( December 2, 1943 – June 10, 1987 ) was an American actress, best known for her performance in the 1965 film A Patch of Blue, playing a blind girl named Selina D ' Arcy, opposite Sidney Poitier, a role for which she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year-Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama.

In the early autumn of 1964, she was offered a leading role in A Patch of Blue, opposite Sidney Poitier and Shelley Winters.

Mrs Verloc was Sylvia Sidney ’ s only role for Hitchcock.

Many scholars know him for his role as either the biographer or editor of notable republicans from the mid-17th century such as James Harrington, Algernon Sidney and John Milton.

In retirement, Sidney was bold enough to outrage the Lord Protector by allegedly putting on a performance of Julius Caesar, with himself in the role of Brutus.

For a few years in the late 1990s, he toured a concert version of Porgy and Bess, partly in honor of his father, who sang the role for Sidney Poitier in the 1959 film version, and partly " to preserve the score's jazziness " in the face of " largely white orchestras " who tend not " to play around the bar lines, to stretch and bend ".

" Sidney Redmond agreed that the Gaines family " doesn't seem too much concerned — and never was as I recall " about finding him due to their resentment of the civil rights ' organization's role in pushing Lloyd Gaines into the public eye without adequately providing for or protecting him.