Sylvia Sidney

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1910-08-09 (89 years old)

Deathday

1999-07-01

Place of Birth

The Bronx, New York, USA

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).

Acting

1996

Mars Attacks!

as Grandma Norris

1955

Man on the Ledge

as Mrs. Cosick

1978

Damien - Omen II

as Aunt Marion

1976

God Told Me To

as Elizabeth Mullin

1976

Raid on Entebbe

as Dora Bloch

1937

Sabotage

as Mrs. Verloc

1981

A Small Killing

as Sadie Ross

1937

Dead End

as Drina Gordon

1990

Andre's Mother

as Mrs. Downes

1931

City Streets

as Nan Cooley

1936

Fury

as Katherine Grant

1956

Behind the High Wall

as Hilda Carmichael

1938

You and Me

as Helen Roberts

1955

Violent Saturday

as Elsie Braden

1977

Snowbeast

as Mrs. Carrie Rill

1932

Madame Butterfly

as Cho-Cho San

1937

You Only Live Once

as Joan Graham

1932

Merrily We Go to Hell

as Joan Prentice

1934

Thirty Day Princess

as Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina

1947

Love from a Stranger

as Cecily Harrington

1973

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

as Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother

1985

An Early Frost

as Beatrice McKenna

1945

Blood on the Sun

as Iris Hilliard

1936

1941

1931

An American Tragedy

as Roberta 'Bert' Alden

1935

1931

Confessions of a Co-Ed

as Patricia Harper

1931

Street Scene

as Rose Maurrant

1952

Les Miserables

as Fantine

1931

Ladies of the Big House

as Kathleen Storm McNeil

1934

Behold My Wife!

as Tonita Storm Cloud

1933

Pick-up

as Mary Richards

1978

Siege

as Lillian Gordon

1934

Good Dame

as Lillie Taylor

1933

Jennie Gerhardt

as Jennie Gerhardt

1939

One Third of a Nation

as Mary Rogers

1935

Accent on Youth

as Linda Brown

1987

Pals

as Fern Stobbs

1946

The Searching Wind

as Cassie Bowman

1984

Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)

1957

1931

The House That Shadows Built

as (archive footage)

1971

1932

The Miracle Man

as Helen Smith aka Helen Vail

1983

The Brass Ring

as Grandmother

1988

1992

Used People

as Becky

1958

No Time at All

as Mrs. Kramer

1946

Mr. Ace

as Margaret Wyndham Chase

1988

1980

F.D.R.: The Last Year

as Cousin Polly

1983

Copkiller

as Margaret Smith

1975

Winner Take All

as Anne Barclay

1941

Breakdowns of 1941

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1987

The Witching of Ben Wagner

as Grammy (Regina's Grandmother)

1982

Hammett

as Donaldina Cameron

1976

Death at Love House

as Clara Josephs

1929

Thru Different Eyes

as Valerie Briand

1980

The Shadow Box

as Felicity

1927

Broadway Nights

as Performer

1985

1932

Make Me a Star

as Sylvia Sidney (uncredited)

1980

The Gossip Columnist

as Alma Lewellyn

1982

Having It All

as Marney

1982

Come Along with Me

as Mrs. Flanner

1926

The Sorrows of Satan

as Bridesmaid (uncredited)

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