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