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(AFP, Los Angeles, 7th) The first African-American actor in Hollywood to win the Oscar for Best Actor, Sidney Poitier, passed away at the age of 94.
Prime Minister Philip Davis of the Bahamas confirmed the death of the veteran superstar who had dual citizenship between the United States and Pakistan. He said: “I am deeply saddened to learn that Sinibodie has passed away this morning.”
According to Davis’s spokesperson, Shenibaudi died last night at his home in Los Angeles, California, but the details of the cause of death have yet to be announced.
In the 1958 movie “The Defiant Ones” (The Defiant Ones), Shenibaudi became the first African-American actor shortlisted for the Oscar for Best Actor. Acting became the first Oscar-born African-American actor, setting a history.
When the apartheid system prevailed in the 1950s and 1960s in the United States and caused racial tensions, Sherney Bodie carefully selected films, weighing personal achievement and sense of mission, in order to resolve the prejudice and stereotypes of African descent from the outside world. Classic works include 1967 “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” (Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner) and “In the Heat of the Night” (In the Heat of the Night).
Shenibaudi played an African-American physician in “Who Will Dinner”. When visiting the wife’s parents at the white fiancee’s house, she faced the prejudice and challenges of inter-racial marriage. He played the role of an African-American policeman in “Early Night Hunting Order” and encountered racial discrimination in a murder investigation. In the movie “To Sir, With Love” (To Sir, With Love), he played the role of a teacher who encountered bad students in a London school.
Other classic works include “A Patch of Blue” (A Patch of Blue), “The Blackboard Jungle” (The Blackboard Jungle), “A Raisin in the Sun” (A Raisin in the Sun) in 1965.
Shenibaudi was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom in 1974. He became the Bahamian Ambassador to Japan in 1997 and later also served as the Ambassador to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In 2009, he was awarded the “Presidential Medal of Freedom” (Presidential Medal of Freedom), the highest civilian honor in the United States by then President Obama.
In addition, he served on the board of directors of Walt Disney Co. from 1994 to 2003, and was awarded the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 2002. In addition to his achievements on the big screen, he has also played important historical figures such as Nelson Mandela, the first African-American President of South Africa and Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, on the small screen.
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