Sylvia Sidney
Born: 1910-08-09 in The Bronx, New York, USA
Died: 1999-07-01
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
1998
- Fantasy Island as Clia
1996
- Mars Attacks! as Grandma Norris
1993
- Diagnosis: Murder as Alice
1992
- Used People as Becky
1990
- Night of 100 Stars III as Self
- Andre's Mother as Mrs. Downes
1989
1988
- Beetlejuice as Juno
- Dear John as Mrs. Lumenski
- Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man as Self (archive footage)
1987
- thirtysomething
- Pals as Fern Stobbs
- The Witching of Ben Wagner as Grammy (Regina's Grandmother)
1985
- The Equalizer as Judge
- An Early Frost as Beatrice McKenna
- Finnegan Begin Again as Margaret
1984
- Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)
1983
- Copkiller as Margaret Smith
- The Brass Ring as Grandmother
1982
- Hammett as Donaldina Cameron
- American Playhouse as Mrs. Flanner
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
- Having It All as Marney
- Come Along with Me as Mrs. Flanner
1981
- A Small Killing as Sadie Ross
1980
- Magnum, P.I. as Elizabeth Barrett
- The Shadow Box as Felicity
- F.D.R.: The Last Year as Cousin Polly
- The Gossip Columnist as Alma Lewellyn
1978
- WKRP in Cincinnati as Lillian Carlson
- Siege as Lillian Gordon
- Damien - Omen II as Aunt Marion
- Kaz as Molly
1977
- The Love Boat as Natalie Corson
- Eight Is Enough as Aunt Fealty
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden as Miss Coral
- Snowbeast as Mrs. Carrie Rill
1976
- God Told Me To as Elizabeth Mullin
- Raid on Entebbe as Dora Bloch
- Death at Love House as Clara Josephs
1975
- Starsky & Hutch as Olga Grossman
- The Secret Night Caller as Kitty
- Winner Take All as Anne Barclay
1973
- Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams as Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother
1971
- Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate as Elizabeth Gibson
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- The Defenders as Adela Collins
1960
- My Three Sons as Miss Houk
- Route 66 as Lonnie Taylor
1959
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Beulah Ridges
1958
- Naked City as Florence Nunda
- No Time at All as Mrs. Kramer
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- The Helen Morgan Story as Lulu Morgan
- The Polly Bergen Show as Self
1956
- Playhouse 90 as Mrs. Kramer
- Behind the High Wall as Hilda Carmichael
1955
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Mrs. Cosick
- Violent Saturday as Elsie Braden
- Playwrights '56
- Man on the Ledge as Mrs. Cosick
1954
1953
- General Electric Theater as Gloria Roma
- Kraft Television Theatre
1952
- Les Miserables as Fantine
- The Ford Television Theatre
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Joyce
- Cameo Theatre
1949
- Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner as Sylvia Sidney
1947
- Kraft Television Theatre
- Love from a Stranger as Cecily Harrington
1946
- Mr. Ace as Margaret Wyndham Chase
- The Searching Wind as Cassie Bowman
1945
- Blood on the Sun as Iris Hilliard
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self
1941
- The Wagons Roll at Night as Flo Lorraine
- Breakdowns of 1941 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1939
- One Third of a Nation as Mary Rogers
1938
- You and Me as Helen Roberts
1937
- Dead End as Drina Gordon
- You Only Live Once as Joan Graham
- Sabotage as Mrs. Verloc
1936
- Fury as Katherine Grant
- The Trail of the Lonesome Pine as June Tolliver
1935
- Mary Burns, Fugitive as Mary Burns
- Accent on Youth as Linda Brown
1934
- Thirty Day Princess as Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina
- Good Dame as Lillie Taylor
- Behold My Wife! as Tonita Storm Cloud
1933
- Jennie Gerhardt as Jennie Gerhardt
- Pick-up as Mary Richards
1932
- Madame Butterfly as Cho-Cho San
- Make Me a Star as Sylvia Sidney (uncredited)
- Merrily We Go to Hell as Joan Prentice
- The Miracle Man as Helen Smith aka Helen Vail
1931
- City Streets as Nan Cooley
- An American Tragedy as Roberta 'Bert' Alden
- Confessions of a Co-Ed as Patricia Harper
- Ladies of the Big House as Kathleen Storm McNeil
- Street Scene as Rose Maurrant
- The House That Shadows Built as (archive footage)
1930
- Five Minutes from the Station as Carrie Adams
1929
- Thru Different Eyes as Valerie Briand
1927
- Broadway Nights as Performer
1926
- The Sorrows of Satan as Bridesmaid (uncredited)