Sylvia Sidney
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 9, 1910
- Died
- Jul 1, 1999 (aged 88)
- Place of birth
- The Bronx, New York, USA
- Credits
- 110
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
1998TV
Clia
Mars Attacks!
1996Movie
Grandma Norris
Diagnosis: Murder
1993TV
Alice
Used People
1992Movie
Becky
Night of 100 Stars III
1990Movie
Self
Andre's Mother
1990Movie
Mrs. Downes
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989Movie
Self
Dear John
1988TV
Mrs. Lumenski
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988Movie
Self (archive footage)
Beetlejuice
1988Movie
Juno
The Witching of Ben Wagner
1987Movie
Grammy (Regina's Grandmother)
thirtysomething
1987TV
Pals
1987Movie
Fern Stobbs
The Equalizer
1985TV
Judge
An Early Frost
1985Movie
Beatrice McKenna
Finnegan Begin Again
1985Movie
Margaret
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984Movie
(archive footage)
Copkiller
1983Movie
Margaret Smith
The Brass Ring
1983Movie
Grandmother
Having It All
1982Movie
Marney
Hammett
1982Movie
Donaldina Cameron
Night of 100 Stars
1982Movie
Self
Come Along with Me
1982Movie
Mrs. Flanner
American Playhouse
1982TV
Mrs. Flanner, Mrs. Downs
A Small Killing
1981Movie
Sadie Ross
Magnum, P.I.
1980TV
Elizabeth Barrett
The Shadow Box
1980Movie
Felicity
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980Movie
Cousin Polly
The Gossip Columnist
1980Movie
Alma Lewellyn
Supertrain
1979TV
Agatha Wills
WKRP in Cincinnati
1978TV
Lillian Carlson
Kaz
1978TV
Molly
Damien - Omen II
1978Movie
Aunt Marion
Siege
1978Movie
Lillian Gordon
The Love Boat
1977TV
Natalie Corson
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
1977Movie
Miss Coral
Snowbeast
1977Movie
Mrs. Carrie Rill
Eight Is Enough
1977TV
Aunt Fealty
Raid on Entebbe
1976Movie
Dora Bloch
God Told Me To
1976Movie
Elizabeth Mullin
Death at Love House
1976Movie
Clara Josephs
Starsky & Hutch
1975TV
Olga Grossman
Winner Take All
1975Movie
Anne Barclay
The Secret Night Caller
1975Movie
Kitty
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
1973Movie
Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
1971Movie
Elizabeth Gibson
The Mike Douglas Show
1961TV
Self
The Defenders
1961TV
Adela Collins
Special for Women
1960TV
Minna Borden
Route 66
1960TV
Lonnie Taylor, Hannah Ellis
My Three Sons
1960TV
Miss Houk
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959TV
Beulah Ridges
Naked City
1958TV
Florence Nunda
No Time at All
1958Movie
Mrs. Kramer
The Polly Bergen Show
1957TV
Self
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957TV
Self
The Helen Morgan Story
1957Movie
Lulu Morgan
Playhouse 90
1956TV
Mrs. Kramer
Behind the High Wall
1956Movie
Hilda Carmichael
Man on the Ledge
1955Movie
Mrs. Cosick
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955TV
Mrs. Cosick
Playwrights '56
1955TV
Violent Saturday
1955Movie
Elsie Braden
Climax!
1954TV
Louella Wheedron
Kraft Television Theatre
1953TV
General Electric Theater
1953TV
Gloria Roma
The Ford Television Theatre
1952TV
Laura Blake
Les Miserables
1952Movie
Fantine
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951TV
Tales of Tomorrow
1951TV
Lux Video Theatre
1950TV
Joyce, Laura Barrie
Cameo Theatre
1950TV
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
1949Movie
Sylvia Sidney
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948TV
Love from a Stranger
1947Movie
Cecily Harrington
Kraft Television Theatre
1947TV
The Searching Wind
1946Movie
Cassie Bowman
Mr. Ace
1946Movie
Margaret Wyndham Chase
Blood on the Sun
1945Movie
Iris Hilliard
Golden Globe Awards
1944TV
Self
Breakdowns of 1941
1941Movie
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Wagons Roll at Night
1941Movie
Flo Lorraine
One Third of a Nation
1939Movie
Mary Rogers
You and Me
1938Movie
Helen Roberts
Dead End
1937Movie
Drina
You Only Live Once
1937Movie
Joan Graham
Sabotage
1936Movie
Mrs. Verloc
Fury
1936Movie
Katherine Grant
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936Movie
June Tolliver
Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935Movie
Mary Burns
Accent on Youth
1935Movie
Linda Brown
Behold My Wife!
1934Movie
Tonita Storm Cloud
Thirty Day Princess
1934Movie
Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina
Good Dame
1934Movie
Lillie Taylor
Jennie Gerhardt
1933Movie
Jennie Gerhardt
Pick-up
1933Movie
Mary Richards
Madame Butterfly
1932Movie
Cho-cho San
Make Me a Star
1932Movie
Sylvia Sidney (uncredited)
Merrily We Go to Hell
1932Movie
Joan Prentice
The Miracle Man
1932Movie
Helen Smith aka Helen Vail
Ladies of the Big House
1931Movie
Kathleen Storm McNeil
Street Scene
1931Movie
Rose Maurrant
An American Tragedy
1931Movie
Roberta 'Bert' Alden
Confessions of a Co-Ed
1931Movie
Patricia Harper
The House That Shadows Built
1931Movie
(archive footage)
City Streets
1931Movie
Nan Cooley
Five Minutes from the Station
1930Movie
Carrie Adams
Thru Different Eyes
1929Movie
Valerie Briand
Broadway Nights
1927Movie
Performer
The Sorrows of Satan
1926Movie
Bridesmaid (uncredited)