RIP Sidney Poitier

[Chomper Higgot]

Good night Sidney, Rest In Peace.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jan/07/sidney-poitier-obituary

[tonray]

'They call me Mr. Tibbs !"

[ezzra]

Actually he was the first black movie star i can recall to see him on the big screen and what a pleasant experience was to see him there, pity we didn't much more of his acting in good number of years... R.I.P. Sir...

[bendejo]

"I ain't building no chapel!"

 

I had a friend, his sister was a nun, and they managed to convince him to paint the inside of their school one long, hot NYC summer.  I used to tease him with that line, calling him Homer Jones.  For many of us who were around in the 1960s the "Mr Tibbs" quote was his signature line; that movie came out in the midst of the Civil Rights era.

He also did a movie with Michael Caine about South Africa during the apartheid era called The Wilby Conspiracy -- not a great movie but pretty interesting.