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Caption: Lobby card from the Lorraine Hansberry drama 'A Raisin in the Sun' (Columbia Pictures), directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, Louis Gossett, and Roy Glenn, Chicago, Illinois, 1961.
About Sidney L. Poitier
Actor, Director, Soundtrack
Born: February 20, 1927
Star sign: Pisces
Height: 6' 2½" (1.89 m)
Known for: In the Heat of the Night (1967), The Jackal (1997), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Lilies of the Field (1963)
Source: IMDB
A native of Cat Island, The Bahamas (though born in Miami during a mainland visit by his parents), Poitier grew up in poverty as the son of farmers Evelyn (Outten) and Reginald James Poitier, who also drove a cab. He had little formal education and at the age of 15 was sent to Miami to live with his brother, in order to forestall a growing ...
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