I don't think Sidney[Poitier] ever played a bad role.
After an argument with the film's director, Poitier took over;
I don't think Sidney[Poitier] ever successfully played a bad part.
Poitier also directed the hit comedy Stir Crazy(1980),
as well as several other features.
While some references give his birth year as 1924, most sources,
including Poitier himself, indicate that he was born in 1927.
In another classic example of Hollywood's“Age Cheating”, Sidney Poitier, the angry delinquent high school kid,
was actually 28 when he appeared in the film.
An impulsive audition at the American Negro
Theatre was rejected so forcefully that Poitier dedicated the next six months to overcoming his accent and performance ineptness.
Poitier's performance as a doctor treating a white bigot got him plenty of notice and led to more roles, each considerably
more interesting and prominent than most black actors of the time were getting.
Poitier's performance as a doctor treating a white bigot got him plenty of notice and led to more roles, each considerably more
interesting and prominent than most African American actors of the time were getting.
The character appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe,
portrayed by Damion Poitier in The Avengers(2012), and by Josh Brolin in Guardians of the Galaxy(2014),
Avengers: Age of Ultron(2015), Avengers: Infinity War(2018), and Avengers: Endgame(2019) through voice and motion capture.