# Sidney Poitier has died

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** celebrity-death\
**Created:** [January 7, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidney-poitier-has-died/957376 "2022-01-07T15:28:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidney-poitier-has-died/957376/41 "2022-01-10T12:44:57Z")

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A piece of trivia that has been rattling around in my brain for decades, source unknown: Poitier made 21 movies over fifteen years before being cast in a film in which the race of his character was not a plot point: _The Bedford Incident_, 1965.

Now, I haven’t watched all 20 of those earlier films (or _TBI_, for that matter), so I can’t personally verify this factoid, but it seems plausible.

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