Sylvia Sidney

Sylvia Sidney

  • Birthday: 1910-08-09
  • Deathday: 1999-07-01
  • Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
  • Also know as: Sophia Kosow

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

Mars Attacks!

1996

As Grandma Norris

Damien: Omen II

1978

As Aunt Marion

God Told Me To

1976

As Elizabeth Mullin

Raid on Entebbe

1976

As Dora Bloch

Sabotage

1937

As Mrs. Verloc

Dead End

1937

As Drina Gordon

City Streets

1931

As Nan Cooley

Fury

1936

As Katherine Grant

Behind the High Wall

1956

As Hilda Carmichael

You and Me

1938

As Helen

Violent Saturday

1955

As Elsie Braden

Snowbeast

1977

As Mrs. Carrie Rill

Merrily We Go to Hell

1932

As Joan Prentice

Thirty Day Princess

1934

As Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina

Madame Butterfly

1932

As Cho-Cho San

You Only Live Once

1937

As Joan Graham

Love from a Stranger

1947

As Cecily Harrington

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

1973

As Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother

An Early Frost

1985

As Beatrice McKenna

Blood on the Sun

1945

As Iris Hilliard

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

1936

As June Tolliver

The Wagons Roll at Night

1941

As Flo Lorraine

An American Tragedy

1931

As Roberta 'Bert' Alden

Street Scene

1931

As Rose Maurrant

Mary Burns, Fugitive

1935

As Mary Burns

Confessions of a Co-Ed

1931

As Patricia Harper

Les Miserables

1952

As Fantine

Ladies of the Big House

1931

As Kathleen Storm McNeil

Behold My Wife!

1934

As Tonita Storm Cloud

Pick-up

1933

As Mary Richards

Siege

1978

As Lillian Gordon

Good Dame

1934

As Lillie Taylor

Jennie Gerhardt

1933

As Jennie Gerhardt

One Third of a Nation

1939

As Mary Rogers

Pals

1987

As Fern Stobbs

The Searching Wind

1946

As Cassie Bowwman

The House That Shadows Built

1931

As (archive footage)

The Miracle Man

1932

As Helen Smith aka Helen Vail

Five Minutes from the Station

1930

As Carrie Adams

The Brass Ring

1983

As Grandmother

Beetlejuice

1988

As Juno

Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate

1971

As Elizabeth Gibson

Mr. Ace

1946

As Margaret Wyndham Chase

Copkiller

1983

As Margaret Smith

Winner Take All

1975

As Anne Barclay

Breakdowns of 1941

1941

As Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Used People

1992

As Becky

The Witching of Ben Wagner

1987

As Grammy (Regina's Grandmother)

Hammett

1982

As Donaldina Cameron

Accent on Youth

1935

As Linda Brown

Death at Love House

1976

As Clara Josephs

Thru Different Eyes

1929

As Valerie Briand

The Shadow Box

1980

As Felicity

Broadway Nights

1927

As Performer

Finnegan Begin Again

1985

As Margaret

Make Me a Star

1932

As Sylvia Sidney (uncredited)

The Gossip Columnist

1980

As Alma Lewellyn

Having It All

1982

As Marney

Come Along with Me

1982

As Mrs. Flanner

Night of 100 Stars

1982

As Self

A Small Killing

1981

As Sadie Ross

Andre's Mother

1990

As Mrs. Downes

Going Hollywood: The '30s

1984

As (archive footage)

F.D.R.: The Last Year

1980

As Cousin Polly

Man on the Ledge

1955

As Mrs. Cosick

The Helen Morgan Story

1957

As Lulu Morgan

No Time at All

1958

As Mrs. Kramer

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

1988

As Self (archive footage)

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