FOG BLOG ENTERTAINMENT LOG: AFTER BEATING CANCER, FAMOUS ACTOR SIDNEY POITIER DIES AT 94!

‘I Was Happiest Surviving Prostate Cancer,’ Said Late Actor & Cancer Survivor Sidney Poitier, Who Died Today & Beat Prostate Cancer after 1993 Diagnosis......

• Sidney Poitier, the legendary Bahamian-American Black actor, died at age 94 following a robust and impactful career in Hollywood which earned him the respect and admiration of millions.

• Poitier beat prostate cancer after being diagnosed with it in 1993 at age 66.

• The current guidelines say to start screening for prostate cancer at age 55 and continue screening through age 70.

Legendary Black actor Sidney Poitier died today at 94 after beating cancer in the 1990s, and he called his victory over prostate cancer one of the things in life that made him “the happiest.” In a 2007 Proust Questionnaire with magazine Vanity Fair, when asked when he was happiest, Poitier said, “I was happiest making films, writing books, and surviving prostate cancer.”.....Legendary actor Sidney Poitier, the first Black man to ever win an Academy Award, has died at age 94.

His death was first announced by the Bahamas Minister of Foreign Affairs Fred Mitchell on Friday morning. Poitier’s death was confirmed to NBC News by a source close to the family.

No cause of death has been revealed.

Poitier created a distinguished film legacy in a single year with three 1967 films at a time when segregation prevailed in much of the United States...In Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner he played a Black man with a white fiancee and In the Heat of the Night he was Virgil Tibbs, a Black police officer confronting racism during a murder investigation. He also played a teacher in a tough London school that year in To Sir, With Love.

Poitier won his history-making best actor Oscar for Lilies of the Field in 1963, playing a handyman who helps German nuns build a chapel in the desert. Five years before that, Poitier had been the first Black man nominated for a lead actor Oscar for his role in The Defiant Ones.

His Tibbs character from In the Heat of the Night was immortalized in two sequels —They Call Me Mister Tibbs! in 1970 and The Organization in 1971 — and became the basis of the television series In the Heat of the Night starring Carroll O’Connor and Howard Rollins.