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Poitier might have humanized Steiger, but Mr. Tibbs is nominally flesh and blood, a man with a full range of emotions.
A more recent famous Cat Islander is the actor Sidney Poitier, who was born in Arthur’s Town in the north.
I know what you mean about the Michael Clarke Duncan character in The Green Mile . His function is essentially to absorb and process white pain, suffering, disease, and guilt, which he does visibly--which is a novel change from the decades of films in which black characters have done the same thing invisibly (is there much difference between what Duncan does for Hanks here and what Poitier did for Steiger in In the Heat of the Night ?).
Roughly a contemporary of Poitier, he--like a bunch of other black actors--had to watch as Poitier was treated like the only black man on the planet.