American actor best remembered for roles in films such as The Defiant Ones, In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Blackboard Jungle, A Raisin in the Sun, Lilies of the Field, A Patch of Blue, Buck and the Preacher and To Sir, With Love. Described commonly as being 6ft 2, one biographer in 1969 mentioned
"Rising six feet two and one-half inches tall, with shoulders that are heroically broad and muscular as if hewn out of rock, Poitier is long-hipped and long-legged, almost lanky".
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Sydney Poitier is so tall, and I'm only 5'5". So if I was going to be in the same shot that he was in, I had to stand on a box. I felt it was easier for me to stand on a box than for him to kneel
-- Katharine Houghton
My height is 6'2¾". My weight is 203 lbs.
-- 1983
