Iconic actor and civil rights activist Sidney Poitier died Jan. 6 at the age of 94 Sidney Poitier's family is holding a private memorial service for the actor following his death earlier this month.

"When I first met him, I was terrified," she recalled to Fox News. "He was incredibly tall, and I’m so short. And I was living in Lululand because I was a rock ‘n’ roll, pop singer. I had never acted ...

Sidney Poitier, the Bahamian-American actor who broke numerous Hollywood barriers in the 1950s and 1960s — most famously in 1964 when he became the first Black man to win the Oscar for best actor — ...

Sydney Poitier, the charismatic actor with the smooth-toned voice and intense gaze, rose to stardom in the 1960s. Honored by the Screen Actors Guild, winner of an Academy Award and recipient of the ...

Trailblazing actor Sidney Poitier, whose larger-than-life characters solved a murder in small-town Mississippi, shocked his white wife’s parents and forged an emotional bond with inner city students, ...

Sidney Poitier died from heart failure, according to the actor's death certificate. Poitier passed away at his Beverly Hills home at the age of 94 from cardiopulmonary failure on Jan. 6, the ...