Name
Sylvia Sidney
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1910-08-09
Deathday
1999-07-01 (89 years old)
Place of Birth
The Bronx, New York, USA
Biography
Sylvia Sidney (born Sophia Kosow, August 8, 1910 – July 1, 1999) was an American stage, screen and film actress whose career spanned over 70 years. She rose to prominence in dozens of leading roles in the 1930s. She later gained attention for her role as Juno, a case worker in the afterlife, in Tim Burton's film Beetlejuice, for which she won a Saturn Award as Best Supporting Actress. She also was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973).
Known For
Beetlejuice
(8,505 Votes)
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A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affl...
Relase Date : 30 Mar, 1988
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Mars Attacks!
(5,920 Votes)
6.426
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits...
Relase Date : 13 Dec, 1996
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Damien - Omen II
(825 Votes)
6.411
Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge...
Relase Date : 9 Jun, 1978
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Used People
(38 Votes)
5.842
At her husband's funeral, Pearl, Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters,...
Relase Date : 16 Dec, 1992
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Merrily We Go to Hell
(47 Votes)
6.457
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, J...
Relase Date : 10 Jun, 1932
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You Only Live Once
(193 Votes)
7.086
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot...
Relase Date : 23 Jan, 1937
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An Early Frost
(36 Votes)
5.75
Successful lawyer Michael Pierson is gay, but he has always hidden this part of his life f...
Relase Date : 1 May, 1985
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Movies
Tv Shows
- 1996 Mars Attacks! as Grandma Norris
- 1955 Man on the Ledge as Mrs. Cosick
- 1978 Damien - Omen II as Aunt Marion
- 1976 God Told Me To as Elizabeth Mullin
- 1976 Raid on Entebbe as Dora Bloch
- 1937 Sabotage as Mrs. Verloc
- 1981 A Small Killing as Sadie Ross
- 1937 Dead End as Drina
- 1990 Andre's Mother as Mrs. Downes
- 1931 City Streets as Nan Cooley
- 1936 Fury as Katherine Grant
- 1956 Behind the High Wall as Hilda Carmichael
- 1938 You and Me as Helen Roberts
- 1955 Violent Saturday as Elsie Braden
- 1977 Snowbeast as Mrs. Carrie Rill
- 1932 Madame Butterfly as Cho-cho San
- 1937 You Only Live Once as Joan Graham
- 1932 Merrily We Go to Hell as Joan Prentice
- 1934 Thirty Day Princess as Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina
- 1947 Love from a Stranger as Cecily Harrington
- 1973 Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams as Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother
- 1985 An Early Frost as Beatrice McKenna
- 1945 Blood on the Sun as Iris Hilliard
- 1936 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine as June Tolliver
- 1941 The Wagons Roll at Night as Flo Lorraine
- 1931 An American Tragedy as Roberta 'Bert' Alden
- 1935 Mary Burns, Fugitive as Mary Burns
- 1931 Confessions of a Co-Ed as Patricia Harper
- 1931 Street Scene as Rose Maurrant
- 1952 Les Miserables as Fantine
- 1931 Ladies of the Big House as Kathleen Storm McNeil
- 1933 Pick-up as Mary Richards
- 1934 Behold My Wife! as Tonita Storm Cloud
- 1978 Siege as Lillian Gordon
- 1934 Good Dame as Lillie Taylor
- 1933 Jennie Gerhardt as Jennie Gerhardt
- 1939 One Third of a Nation as Mary Rogers
- 1935 Accent on Youth as Linda Brown
- 1987 Pals as Fern Stobbs
- 1946 The Searching Wind as Cassie Bowman
- 1975 The Secret Night Caller as Kitty
- 1984 Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)
- 1957 The Helen Morgan Story as Lulu Morgan
- 1931 The House That Shadows Built as (archive footage)
- 1971 Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate as Elizabeth Gibson
- 1932 The Miracle Man as Helen Smith aka Helen Vail
- 1983 The Brass Ring as Grandmother
- 1930 Five Minutes from the Station as Carrie Adams
- 1989 Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre as Self
- 1990 Night of 100 Stars III as Self
- 1988 Beetlejuice as Juno
- 1992 Used People as Becky
- 1958 No Time at All as Mrs. Kramer
- 1946 Mr. Ace as Margaret Wyndham Chase
- 1988 Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man as Self (archive footage)
- 1980 F.D.R.: The Last Year as Cousin Polly
- 1983 Copkiller as Margaret Smith
- 1975 Winner Take All as Anne Barclay
- 1941 Breakdowns of 1941 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1987 The Witching of Ben Wagner as Grammy (Regina's Grandmother)
- 1982 Hammett as Donaldina Cameron
- 1976 Death at Love House as Clara Josephs
- 1929 Thru Different Eyes as Valerie Briand
- 1980 The Shadow Box as Felicity
- 1927 Broadway Nights as Performer
- 1985 Finnegan Begin Again as Margaret
- 1977 I Never Promised You a Rose Garden as Miss Coral
- 1932 Make Me a Star as Sylvia Sidney (uncredited)
- 1980 The Gossip Columnist as Alma Lewellyn
- 1982 Having It All as Marney
- 1982 Come Along with Me as Mrs. Flanner
- 1949 Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner as Sylvia Sidney
- 1982 Night of 100 Stars as Self
- 1926 The Sorrows of Satan as Bridesmaid (uncredited)
- 1980 Magnum, P.I. ( 1 episode ) as Elizabeth Barrett
- 1998 Fantasy Island ( 13 episodes ) as Clia
- 1978 WKRP in Cincinnati ( 1 episode ) as Lillian Carlson
- 1987 thirtysomething ( 1 episode )
- 1975 Starsky & Hutch ( 1 episode ) as Olga Grossman
- 1960 My Three Sons ( 1 episode ) as Miss Houk
- 1958 Naked City ( 1 episode ) as Florence Nunda
- 1993 Diagnosis: Murder ( 1 episode ) as Alice
- 1985 The Equalizer ( 1 episode ) as Judge
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as Gloria Roma
- 1950 Lux Video Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Joyce
- 1951 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars ( 1 episode )
- 1954 Climax! ( 1 episode )
- 1955 The 20th Century Fox Hour ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Cosick
- 1948 The Philco Television Playhouse ( 1 episode )
- 1955 Playwrights '56 ( 1 episode )
- 1951 Tales of Tomorrow ( 1 episode )
- 1961 The Defenders ( 2 episodes ) as Adela Collins
- 1959 The DuPont Show with June Allyson ( 1 episode ) as Beulah Ridges
- 1960 Route 66 ( 1 episode ) as Lonnie Taylor
- 1950 Lux Video Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Laura Barrie
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1954 Climax! ( 1 episode ) as Louella Wheedron
- 1988 Dear John ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Lumenski
- 1977 The Love Boat ( 1 episode ) as Natalie Corson
- 1956 Playhouse 90 ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Kramer
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1953 Kraft Television Theatre ( 2 episodes )
- 1960 Route 66 ( 1 episode ) as Hannah Ellis
- 1957 The Polly Bergen Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1957 Tonight Starring Jack Paar ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1952 The Ford Television Theatre ( 1 episode )
- 1952 The Ford Television Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Laura Blake
- 1950 Cameo Theatre ( 1 episode )
- 1947 Kraft Television Theatre ( 1 episode )
- 1978 Kaz ( 1 episode ) as Molly
- 1977 Eight Is Enough ( 2 episodes ) as Aunt Fealty
- 1979 Supertrain ( 1 episode ) as Agatha Wills
- 1960 Special for Women ( 1 episode ) as Minna Borden
- 1982 American Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Flanner
- 1982 American Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Downs
