Sylvia Sidney
Acting
- Born:
- 1910-08-09
- Died:
- 1999-07-01
- 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
Filmography
Fantasy Island
Mars Attacks!
Diagnosis: Murder
Used People
Night of 100 Stars III
Andre's Mother
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Dear John
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Beetlejuice
The Witching of Ben Wagner
thirtysomething
Pals
The Equalizer
An Early Frost
Finnegan Begin Again
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Copkiller
The Brass Ring
Having It All
Hammett
Night of 100 Stars
Come Along with Me
American Playhouse
A Small Killing
Magnum, P.I.
The Shadow Box
F.D.R.: The Last Year
The Gossip Columnist
Supertrain
WKRP in Cincinnati
Kaz
Damien - Omen II
Siege
The Love Boat
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Snowbeast
Eight Is Enough
Raid on Entebbe
God Told Me To
Death at Love House
Starsky & Hutch
Winner Take All
The Secret Night Caller
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
The Mike Douglas Show
The Defenders
Special for Women
Route 66
My Three Sons
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Naked City
No Time at All
The Polly Bergen Show
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
The Helen Morgan Story
Playhouse 90
Behind the High Wall
Man on the Ledge
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Playwrights '56
Violent Saturday
Climax!
Kraft Television Theatre
General Electric Theater
The Ford Television Theatre
Les Miserables
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Tales of Tomorrow
Lux Video Theatre
Cameo Theatre
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
The Philco Television Playhouse
Love from a Stranger
Kraft Television Theatre
The Searching Wind
Mr. Ace
Blood on the Sun
Golden Globe Awards
Breakdowns of 1941
The Wagons Roll at Night
One Third of a Nation
You and Me
Dead End
You Only Live Once
Sabotage
Fury
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Accent on Youth
Behold My Wife!
Thirty Day Princess
Good Dame
Jennie Gerhardt
Pick-up
Madame Butterfly
Make Me a Star
Merrily We Go to Hell
The Miracle Man
Ladies of the Big House
Street Scene
An American Tragedy
Confessions of a Co-Ed
The House That Shadows Built
City Streets
Five Minutes from the Station
Thru Different Eyes
Broadway Nights
The Sorrows of Satan