"Who won Best Actor 'Oscar' for the 1963 film ""Lilies Of The Field""?"
The Lilies of the Field (novel) Saint Benedict the Moor, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Smith. The novel was filmed as "Lilies of the Field" in 1963. Its lead actor, Sidney Poitier, won an Academy Award for Best Actor for playing the role of Homer Smith. The Lilies of the Field (novel) The Lilies of the Field is a 1962 novel by William Edmund Barrett based on the true story of the Sisters of Walburga.. Homer Smith, just out of the US Army, buys a station wagon in Seattle, equips it for sleeping in and sets out to see the West. Having learned many skills
Lilies of the Field (1963 film) doors were borrowed from the Chapel in Sasabe, Arizona and were carved by local Tucson artist Charles Bolsius. A sequel, "Christmas Lilies of the Field", was made in 1979 for television in which Homer Smith (now played by Billy Dee Williams), returns and is "convinced" to build a kindergarten for a group of orphans and runaways whom the sisters have taken in. Jester Hairston, who wrote the gospel arrangement of "Amen" used in the film, and who arranged the vocal parts, also dubbed the vocals for Poitier, who is famously tone-deaf. Poitier won the 1963 Academy Award for Best Actor,