Sid Caesar

Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Born
September 8, 1922 (91 years old)
Died
February 12, 2014
Place of Birth
Yonkers, New York, USA
Popular Genres
Comedy Documentary TV Movie
Career Span
1946 – 2023

Sid Caesar

2 wins
48 nominations
1 Oscar
60 credits

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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Personal Info

Born
Sep 8, 1922
From
Yonkers, New York, USA
Known For
Acting
Career
1946 – 2023

Award Recognition

2
Wins
48
Nominations
1
Oscar

Complete Filmography

2023

It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point as Melville Crump (archive footage)

2018

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped as Self (archive footage)

2017

The Grease Story as Coach Calhoun (archive footage)

2013

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise as Self

2012

In the Beginning: The Caesar Years as Self
Lunch as Himself

2009

Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World as Self (archive footage)

2005

Pioneers of Primetime

2004

Comic Book: The Movie as Old Army Buddy Award

2003

Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar as Himself

2002

NBC 75th Anniversary Special as Self Award
Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure as Jacob (voice)
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story as Self (uncredited)

2000

The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy as Himself
The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room as Himself
The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV as Self

1999

Television: The First Fifty Years as Self (archive footage) Award
Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: A Salute to the Friars Club as Self

1998

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit as Sid Zellman

1997

Vegas Vacation as Mr Ellis Award

1996

Caesar's Writers as Self

1995

The Great Mom Swap as Papa Tognetti

1991

Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' as Self Award

1988

Side by Side as Louis Hammerstein
Wall of Tyranny as Max

1987

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self Award
The Emperor's New Clothes as The Emperor

1986

Stoogemania as Doctor Fixyer Mindyer
Christmas Snow as Mr. Snyder

1985

Love Is Never Silent as Mr. Petrakis

1984

Cannonball Run II as Fisherman #2 Award
Over the Brooklyn Bridge as Uncle Benjamin Award
All Star Party for Lucille Ball as Self

1983

Found Money as Sam Green

1982

Grease 2 as Coach Vince Calhoun Award

1981

History of the World: Part I as Chief Caveman Award
The Munsters' Revenge as Dr. Dustin Diablo Award

1980

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu as Joe Capone Award
Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz as Wizard / Mince Pie U.N. Krust / Narrator (voice)

1979

Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet as King Goochi (voice)
America 2100 as MAX (voice)

1978

Grease as Coach Calhoun Award
The Cheap Detective as Ezra Dezire Award

1977

Fire Sale as Sherman Award
Curse of the Black Widow as Lazlo Cozart Award
Flight to Holocaust as George Beam
Barnaby and Me as Leo Fisk

1976

Silent Movie as Studio Chief

1975

Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television as (archive footage)
Ann-Margret Smith as Himself

1974

Airport 1975 as Barney Award
Hamburgers as self

1973

Ten from Your Show of Shows

1967

A Guide for the Married Man as Technical Adviser (at Romanoff's) Award
The Spirit Is Willing as Ben Powell
The Busy Body as George Norton

1963

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as Melville Crump Award

1959

Some of Manie's Friends

1947

The Guilt of Janet Ames as Sammy Weaver

1946

Tars and Spars as Chuck Enders

Photos & Videos

Featured in Trailers

Grease
Grease 2
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Airport 1975
The Cheap Detective
A Guide for the Married Man

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