Sidney Poitier as a teacher who must win over his students in a still from the 1967 film "To Sir, with Love."
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Sidney Poitier, Oscar-winning actor and Hollywood's first Black movie star, dies at 94
Sidney Poitier, whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywood's first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died. He was 94.
