Sidney Poitier, Oscar-winning actor and Hollywood's first Black movie star, dies at 94
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Sidney Poitier, pictured in April 1964, 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 and he was 94.
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