George Sidney

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1916-10-04 (86 years old)

Deathday

2002-05-05

Place of Birth

Long Island City, New York, USA

George Sidney

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Sidney (October 4, 1916 – May 5, 2002) was an American film director and film producer who worked primarily at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Sidney was assigned to direct the Our Gang comedies in 1938. After a year of working on these shorts, he moved on to the Crime Does Not Pay series and popular Pete Smith specialties. He graduated to directing features in 1941. He then worked his way into directing large scale musicals such as The Harvey Girls (1946), The Three Musketeers (1948), Annie Get Your Gun (1950), and Kiss Me Kate (1953). Sidney left MGM to make The Eddy Duchin Story (1956) at Columbia Pictu...

Acting

2003

Rita

as Self

2006

Filmmakers in Action

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1964

Viva Las Vegas

as Producer

1964

Viva Las Vegas

as Director

1963

Bye Bye Birdie

as Director

1950

1952

Scaramouche

as Director

1957

Pal Joey

as Director

1953

Kiss Me Kate

as Director

1948

1949

The Red Danube

as Director

1956

1953

Young Bess

as Director

1943

Thousands Cheer

as Director

1944

Bathing Beauty

as Director

1967

Half a Sixpence

as Director

1951

Show Boat

as Director

1945

Anchors Aweigh

as Director

1960

Pepe

as Director

1966

The Swinger

as Director

1943

Pilot #5

as Director

1960

1942

1947

Cass Timberlane

as Director

1963

1957

Jeanne Eagels

as Director

1950

Key to the City

as Director

1955

1946

1936

Every Sunday

as Producer

1939

1939

Love on Tap

as Director

1966

The Swinger

as Producer

1946

The Harvey Girls

as Director

1938

Party Fever

as Director

1940

Quicker'n a Wink

as Director

1939

Dog Daze

as Director

1941

Flicker Memories

as Director

1939

Tiny Troubles

as Director

1963

Bye Bye Birdie

as Producer

1941

1945

Ziegfeld Follies

as Director

1941

Free and Easy

as Director

1939

Clown Princes

as Director

1939

Alfalfa's Aunt

as Director

1957

Jeanne Eagels

as Producer

1939

Cousin Wilbur

as Director

1938

Practical Jokers

as Director

1938

Football Romeo

as Director

1938

Men in Fright

as Director

1941

1939

1967

Half a Sixpence

as Producer

1960

Pepe

as Producer

1937

Pacific Paradise

as Director

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