Eddie Murphy was warned by Sidney Poitier not to star in "Malcolm X." During an interview for Apple TV+'s "Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood," Murphy revealed he bumped into ...

And they approached me about playing Alex Haley." Murphy continues: "And some-kind-of-where around that same time, I bumped into Sidney Poitier at something. And I asked him, ‘Yeah, I’m ...

The late Sidney Poitier broke ground as a Black actor throughout his career. His portrayal of Virgil Tibbs in the 1967 film In the Heat of the Night was no different. The movie, released amid the ...

"Sidney Poitier said, 'You are not Denzel [Washington ... and my audience was the mainstream — all of everywhere. My movies [were] all around the world, and they had never had that with ...

The Apple TV+ documentary charts the Hollywood history of boundary-breaking Black male actors like Poitier and Murphy and how they charted the path for Black actors working today. The post Eddie ...

Although he scored his lone Oscar nomination — in the best supporting actor category — for a dramatic role in the 2006 movie musical Dreamgirls ... other than Oscar-winning Hollywood legend Sidney ...