San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs is called in to investigate when a liberal street preacher and political candidate is accused of murdering a prostitute. Tibbs is also battling ...

Sidney Poitier led the crime thriller that redefined Black heroes while telling a thrilling tale of power, corruption, and ...

It stars Sidney Poitier. The film was followed by two sequels also starring Poitier, They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970) and The Organization (1971). It was also the basis of a 1988 television ...

It stars Sidney Poitier. The film was followed by two sequels also starring Poitier, They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970) and The Organization (1971). It was also the basis of a 1988 television ...

In that seminal school movie tackling many taboo-subjects for its time ... teacher , Mr. Dadier. Ironically, Poitier would later play a similar idealistic teacher facing a rebellious class in "To Sir, ...

the legendary actor and director Sidney ... Poitier in a crime-comedy dealing with the advent of the modern internet and the threat of losing digital privacy. The Philadelphia Film Society is located ...

Sidney Poitier in a 1968 publicity photo ... That, along with his emphatic declaration to the smarmy racist sheriff played by Rod Steiger, “They call me Mr. Tibbs!” drew cheers from Black movie-goers ...

Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration ... but resolved and occasionally humorous persona crystallized in his most famous line — “They call me Mr. Tibbs!” — from “In the ...

Sidney Poitier ... 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 ...