Rest in peace, Sidney Poitier. In its 1959 profile of the star, LIFE wrote: 'He makes audiences feel close to him because he feels close to them. Whenever he walks on stage, excitement walks on with him...' For more photographs of the legend, check out:
Sidney Poitier in a scene from the film "Cry The Beloved Country", 1952.View GalleryGordon Parks The LIFE Picture Collection/ShutterstockIn 1959, when LIFE magazine profiled the star of a new production ofSidney Poitier, he was 32 and as the magazine then put it, “already accepted almost without question as the best Negro actor in the history of the American theater.
Here, LIFE presents some of the magazine’s most striking images of the star, who appeared in its pages in a 1950 story about the filmwent on to be featured on the cover in 1966 and became a mainstay of the magazine’s coverage of Hollywood as well as the civil rights movement. As these pictures make clear, Poitier’s career has been one of breadth as well as depth.Sidney Poitier in a scene from the film “Cry The Beloved Country”, 1952.Sidney Poitier at the prayer pilgrimage in Washington D.C.
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