Sid Caesar
Biography
Sid Caesar (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2014) was an American comic actor and writer, known as the leading man on the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows and as Coach Calhoun in Grease and Grease 2.
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Acting History
2023
It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point as Melville Crump (archive footage)
2018Mel Brooks: Unwrapped as Self (archive footage)
2017The Grease Story as Coach Calhoun (archive footage)
2013Mel Brooks: Make a Noise as Self
2012In the Beginning: The Caesar Years as Self
2012Lunch as Himself
2009Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World as Self (archive footage)
2008The Jewish Americans as Self
2005Pioneers of Primetime
2004Comic Book: The Movie as Old Army Buddy
2003Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar as Himself
2002Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure as Jacob (voice)
2002NBC 75th Anniversary Special as Self
2002Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story as Self (uncredited)
2000The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV as Self
2000The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy as Himself
2000The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room as Himself
1999Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: A Salute to the Friars Club as Self
1999Television: The First Fifty Years as Self (archive footage)
1998Whose Line Is It Anyway? as Self
1998The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit as Sid Zellman
1997Vegas Vacation as Mr. Ellis
1996Caesar's Writers as Self
1995The Great Mom Swap as Papa Tognetti
1992Mad About You as Uncle Harold
1992Love & War
1991Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' as Self
1988Side by Side as Louis Hammerstein
1988Wall of Tyranny as Max
1987Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self
1987The Emperor's New Clothes as The Emperor
1986Christmas Snow as Mr. Snyder
1985Alice in Wonderland as Gryphon
1985Love Is Never Silent as Mr. Petrakis
1985Stoogemania as Doctor Fixyer Mindyer
1985Amazing Stories as Lou Bundles
1984All Star Party for Lucille Ball as Self
1984Cannonball Run II as Fisherman #2
1984Over the Brooklyn Bridge as Uncle Benjamin
1983Found Money as Sam Green
1983The Boys of Summer as Host
1982Matt Houston
1982Grease 2 as Coach Vince Calhoun
1981History of the World: Part I as Chief Caveman
1981The Munsters' Revenge as Dr. Dustin Diablo
1980Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz as Wizard / Mince Pie U.N. Krust / Narrator (voice)
1980The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu as Joe Capone
1980The Big Show as Self
1980Pink Lady as Sid Caesar
1979Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet as King Goochi (voice)
1979America 2100 as MAX (voice)
1978Vega$
1978W.E.B.
1978The Cheap Detective as Ezra Dezire
1978Grease as Coach Calhoun
1977The Love Boat as Michael Harmon
1977Curse of the Black Widow as Lazlo Cozart
1977Barnaby and Me as Leo Fisk
1977Fire Sale as Sherman
1977Flight to Holocaust as George Beam
1976Silent Movie as Studio Chief
1976Good Heavens
1975Ann-Margret Smith as Himself
1975Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television as (archive footage)
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1975When Things Were Rotten as Marquis de la Salle
1974Tony Orlando and Dawn as Self
1974Dinah! as Self
1974Airport 1975 as Barney
1974Hamburgers as self
1973The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts as Self
1973Ten from Your Show of Shows
1973The Bobby Darin Show
1972The Julie Andrews Hour as Self
1970The Flip Wilson Show as Self
1970The Don Knotts Show as Self
1969Love, American Style as John Smith
1969Love, American Style as Bert
1968The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1968Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
1967The Carol Burnett Show as Self - Guest
1967The Spirit Is Willing as Ben Powell
1967A Guide for the Married Man as Technical Adviser (at Romanoff's)
1967The Busy Body as George Norton
1966That Girl
1965The Dean Martin Show
1964The Hollywood Palace as Self
1963It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as Melville Crump
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962The Lucy Show as Sid Caesar
1961The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1960Checkmate as Johnny Wilder
1959Some of Manie's Friends
1958The All-Star Christmas Show as Self
1956The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
1954Caesar's Hour as Self - Host
1953General Electric Theater as Nick Lucifer
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Mr. Petrakis
1950The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
1950Your Show of Shows as Self - Regular Performer
1950What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
1949The Admiral Broadway Revue
1948The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1947The Guilt of Janet Ames as Sammy Weaver
1946Tars and Spars as Chuck Enders