RIP, Mr. Tibbs

Sidney Portier has passed. Made it to 94. Farewell, Sir, with much love.

 

Amazingly good actor and a life well lived.
My personal favorite movie he was in is "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner".

 

Gah. What an impressive body of work in an interesting and transformative period of time, navigated with such grace and integrity. He and Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night were absolutely electric. And Guess Who's Coming to Dinner... Lilies of the Field...

So long Sir Sidney Poitier. We miss you already.

 

To Sir with Love always makes me emotional. What a loss

 

I met Sidney once.
I drove his lovely wife Joanna home to Beverly Hills. She invited in to use the bathroom before heading back to San Diego.
Sidney was sitting in his recliner watching tv.
He stood up and introduced himself and I shook the legends hand.
I took the wiz and Sidney went to the fridge and gave me a bottle of water and thanked me bringing his wife home

I just looked up that trip and it was 15 years....sheesh. 12/17/2006

 

RIP.

In the Heat of the Night was amazing. Great actor and person. Helluva run to 94.

 

Weird stuff. I watched To Sir With Love 2 weeks ago for the first time in 40 years and Sidney dies. Watched The Last Picture Show on Monday and Peter dies.

I am not watching Outlaw Josey Wales any time soon!

 

I think the military will be calling shortly.

 

Better stay away from those home movies too.

 

Damn. Such great talent. RIP

 

RIP. Losing a lot of the old school greats. Damn I'm old.

 

rd400, I listed my Ernie Ball EVH purple quilt guitar for sale and EVH died a day or two later :/
I kept the guitar.

 

Heat of the night and blackboard jungle..

 

Did ya'll know he also loved to ride?

 

I didn't know that. Thank you for the picture. It takes him up a whole 'nuther notch, if that's possible.

 

That's from a movie Warm December, he directed, and stared in, a stunt rider doubled for him.

 

Bsa!!!

 

Yeah I had a 441, liked it,hard to start though. The one pictured is a 500