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Sir died yesterday

posted 8 years ago by melora72
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The real teacher died yesterday at the age of 104. He was apparently in pretty good health until last week. That's amazing. They changed the name in the movie. I think his real name was something like Brathwaite.

[–] Interlepos (1807) 3 years ago

And so did the great actor playing him.

[–] Bloodworth79 (5687) 3 years ago

That's strange, if true

[–] Interlepos (1807) 3 years ago

I'm talking about Sidney Poitier.

[–] Bloodworth79 (5687) 3 years ago

So was I. sidney and the teacher he was playing died around the same time.

That's strange

[–] duckofprey (1557) 3 years ago

This post was 5 years old.

The autobiographical author of this, E. R. Braithwaite, passed December 2016.