Birthday:
Aug 09, 1910
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Sylvia Sidney
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
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Mars Attacks! | Grandma Norris | 1996 |
| Man on the Ledge | Mrs. Cosick | 1955 |
| Damien: Omen II | Aunt Marion | 1978 |
| God Told Me To | Elizabeth Mullin | 1976 |
| Raid on Entebbe | Dora Bloch | 1976 |
| Sabotage | Mrs. Verloc | 1937 |
| A Small Killing | Sadie Ross | 1981 |
| Dead End | Drina Gordon | 1937 |
| Andre's Mother | Mrs. Downes | 1990 |
| City Streets | Nan Cooley | 1931 |
| Fury | Katherine Grant | 1936 |
| Behind the High Wall | Hilda Carmichael | 1956 |
| You and Me | Helen | 1938 |
| Violent Saturday | Elsie Braden | 1955 |
| Snowbeast | Mrs. Carrie Rill | 1977 |
| Madame Butterfly | Cho-Cho San | 1932 |
| You Only Live Once | Joan Graham | 1937 |
| Merrily We Go to Hell | Joan Prentice | 1932 |
| Thirty Day Princess | Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina | 1934 |
| Love from a Stranger | Cecily Harrington | 1947 |
| Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams | Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother | 1973 |
| An Early Frost | Beatrice McKenna | 1985 |
| Blood on the Sun | Iris Hilliard | 1945 |
| The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | June Tolliver | 1936 |
| The Wagons Roll at Night | Flo Lorraine | 1941 |
| An American Tragedy | Roberta 'Bert' Alden | 1931 |
| Mary Burns, Fugitive | Mary Burns | 1935 |
| Confessions of a Co-Ed | Patricia Harper | 1931 |
| Street Scene | Rose Maurrant | 1931 |
| Les Miserables | Fantine | 1952 |
| Ladies of the Big House | Kathleen Storm McNeil | 1931 |
| Pick-up | Mary Richards | 1933 |
| Behold My Wife! | Tonita Storm Cloud | 1934 |
| Siege | Lillian Gordon | 1978 |
| Good Dame | Lillie Taylor | 1934 |
| Jennie Gerhardt | Jennie Gerhardt | 1933 |
| One Third of a Nation | Mary Rogers | 1939 |
| Accent on Youth | Linda Brown | 1935 |
| Pals | Fern Stobbs | 1987 |
| The Searching Wind | Cassie Bowman | 1946 |
| The Secret Night Caller | Kitty | 1975 |
| Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) | 1984 |
| The Helen Morgan Story | Lulu Morgan | 1957 |
| The House That Shadows Built | (archive footage) | 1931 |
| Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate | Elizabeth Gibson | 1971 |
| The Miracle Man | Helen Smith aka Helen Vail | 1932 |
| The Brass Ring | Grandmother | 1983 |
| Five Minutes from the Station | Carrie Adams | 1930 |
| Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre | Self | 1989 |
| Night of 100 Stars III | Self | 1990 |
| Beetlejuice | Juno | 1988 |
| Used People | Becky | 1992 |
| No Time at All | Mrs. Kramer | 1958 |
| Mr. Ace | Margaret Wyndham Chase | 1946 |
| Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man | Self (archive footage) | 1988 |
| F.D.R.: The Last Year | Cousin Polly | 1980 |
| Copkiller | Margaret Smith | 1983 |
| Winner Take All | Anne Barclay | 1975 |
| Breakdowns of 1941 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1941 |
| The Witching of Ben Wagner | Grammy (Regina's Grandmother) | 1987 |
| Hammett | Donaldina Cameron | 1982 |
| Death at Love House | Clara Josephs | 1976 |
| Thru Different Eyes | Valerie Briand | 1929 |
| The Shadow Box | Felicity | 1980 |
| Broadway Nights | Performer | 1927 |
| Finnegan Begin Again | Margaret | 1985 |
| I Never Promised You a Rose Garden | Miss Coral | 1977 |
| Make Me a Star | Sylvia Sidney (uncredited) | 1932 |
| The Gossip Columnist | Alma Lewellyn | 1980 |
| Having It All | Marney | 1982 |
| Come Along with Me | Mrs. Flanner | 1982 |
| Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner | Sylvia Sidney | 1949 |
| Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982 | Series | Cast | Year |
| Magnum, P.I. | Elizabeth Barrett | 1980 |
| Fantasy Island | Clia | 1998 |
| WKRP in Cincinnati | Mama Carlson | 1978 |
| thirtysomething | 1987 | |
| Starsky & Hutch | Olga Grossman | 1975 |
| My Three Sons | Miss Houk | 1960 |
| Naked City | Florence Nunda | 1958 |
| Diagnosis: Murder | Alice | 1993 |
| The Equalizer | Judge | 1985 |
| General Electric Theater | Gloria Roma | 1953 |
| Eight Is Enough | 1977 | |
| Lux Video Theatre | Joyce | 1950 |
| Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | 1951 | |
| Climax! | 1954 | |
| The 20th Century Fox Hour | Mrs. Cosick | 1955 |
| The Philco Television Playhouse | 1948 | |
| Playwrights '56 | 1955 | |
| Tales of Tomorrow | 1951 | |
| The Defenders | Adela Collins | 1961 |
| The DuPont Show with June Allyson | Beulah Ridges | 1959 |
| Route 66 | Lonnie Taylor | 1960 |
| Lux Video Theatre | Laura Barrie | 1950 |
| The Mike Douglas Show | Self | 1961 |
| Climax! | Louella Wheedron | 1954 |
| Dear John | Mrs. Lumenski | 1988 |
| The Love Boat | Natalie Corson | 1977 |
| Playhouse 90 | Mrs. Kramer | 1956 |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Mrs. Sylvia Verloc (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1955 |
| Golden Globe Awards | Self - Winner | 1944 |
| Kraft Television Theatre | 1953 | |
| Route 66 | Hannah Ellis | 1960 |
| The Polly Bergen Show | Self | 1957 |
| Tonight Starring Jack Paar | Self | 1957 |
| The Ford Television Theatre | 1952 | |
| The Ford Television Theatre | Laura Blake | 1952 |
| Cameo Theatre | 1950 |
