Fan Casting Sidney Poitier as Ellis Boyd Redding in The Shawshank Redemption (1984)
Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier KBE (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy ...
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Sidney Poitier
as
Ellis Boyd Redding (Red)
in
The Shawshank Redemption (1984)
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The Shawshank Redemption (1984)
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Andy Dufresne, a successful banker, is arrested for the murders of his wife and her lover, and is sentenced to life imprisonment at the Shawshank State Prison. There, he becomes the most unconventi...
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