In a 1967 movie, this actor spoke the line "They call me Mr. Tibbs"
In 1967, Sidney Poitier had three box-office smashes: "To Sir, With Love," "In the 
Heat of ... Poitier gave the movies a bold new image of an African American man 
who stood ... Poitier had to be impossibly virtuous, perfectly spoken and sexless -
- his few ... Nowadays, his famous line, "They call me Mr. Tibbs!