Cast
Sylvia Sidney
Acting
Cast
Sylvia Sidney
Known for
Acting
Born
1910-08-09
From
The Bronx, New York, USA
Died
1999-07-01
Also known as Sophia Kosow, Sylvia Sydney, Ψ³ΫΩΩΫΨ§ Ψ³ΫΨ―ΩΫ
Biography
Sylvia Sidney (born Sophia Kosow, August 8, 1910 β 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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7.4
MOVIE1988
Beetlejuice
as Juno
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6.4
MOVIE1996
Mars Attacks!
as Grandma Norris
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6.4
MOVIE1978
Damien - Omen II
as Aunt Marion
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5.1
MOVIE1933
Pick-up
as Mary Richards
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6.5
MOVIE1932
Merrily We Go to Hell
as Joan Prentice
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8.0
MOVIE1934
Behold My Wife!
as Tonita Storm Cloud
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7.0
MOVIE1941
Breakdowns of 1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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6.5
MOVIE1985
Finnegan Begin Again
as Margaret
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5.8
MOVIE1985
An Early Frost
as Beatrice McKenna
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5.9
MOVIE1945
Blood on the Sun
as Iris Hilliard
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6.1
MOVIE1971
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
as Elizabeth Gibson
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5.8
MOVIE1946
Mr. Ace
as Margaret Wyndham Chase
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5.5
MOVIE1952
Les Miserables
as Fantine
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7.1
MOVIE1937
You Only Live Once
as Joan Graham
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4.3
MOVIE1977
Snowbeast
as Mrs. Carrie Rill
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5.0
MOVIE1976
Death at Love House
as Clara Josephs
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5.9
MOVIE1977
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
as Miss Coral
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6.7
MOVIE1937
Sabotage
as Mrs. Verloc
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6.3
MOVIE1931
An American Tragedy
as Roberta 'Bert' Alden
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6.8
MOVIE1931
Street Scene
as Rose Maurrant
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9.0
MOVIE1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
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5.8
MOVIE1992
Used People
as Becky
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5.8
MOVIE1983
Copkiller
as Margaret Smith
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5.8
MOVIE1982
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
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6.9
MOVIE1980
F.D.R.: The Last Year
as Cousin Polly
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6.0
MOVIE1976
Raid on Entebbe
as Dora Bloch
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7.2
MOVIE1926
The Sorrows of Satan
as Bridesmaid (uncredited)
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6.0
MOVIE1931
Ladies of the Big House
as Kathleen Storm McNeil
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6.5
MOVIE1941
The Wagons Roll at Night
as Flo Lorraine
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7.1
MOVIE1937
Dead End
as Drina
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7.0
MOVIE1934
Good Dame
as Lillie Taylor
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6.2
MOVIE1939
One Third of a Nation
as Mary Rogers
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7.5
MOVIE1936
Fury
as Katherine Grant
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6.5
MOVIE1936
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
as June Tolliver
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9.0
MOVIE1935
Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Mary Burns
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6.2
MOVIE1982
Hammett
as Donaldina Cameron
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6.7
MOVIE1955
Violent Saturday
as Elsie Braden
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6.7
MOVIE1935
Accent on Youth
as Linda Brown
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5.4
MOVIE1932
Madame Butterfly
as Cho-cho San
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8.5
MOVIE1931
The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
β
5.0
MOVIE1980
The Shadow Box
as Felicity
β
5.7
MOVIE1933
Jennie Gerhardt
as Jennie Gerhardt
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4.0
MOVIE1990
Night of 100 Stars III
as Self
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6.6
MOVIE1975
The Secret Night Caller
as Kitty
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6.8
MOVIE1934
Thirty Day Princess
as Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina
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6.5
MOVIE1982
Having It All
as Marney
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5.8
MOVIE1976
God Told Me To
as Elizabeth Mullin
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6.4
MOVIE1932
Make Me a Star
as Sylvia Sidney (uncredited)
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5.6
MOVIE1973
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
as Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother
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7.3
MOVIE1980
The Gossip Columnist
as Alma Lewellyn
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6.6
MOVIE1938
You and Me
as Helen Roberts
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6.2
MOVIE1931
Confessions of a Co-Ed
as Patricia Harper
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5.4
MOVIE1987
The Witching of Ben Wagner
as Grammy (Regina's Grandmother)
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6.8
MOVIE1978
Siege
as Lillian Gordon
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8.0
MOVIE1958
No Time at All
as Mrs. Kramer
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7.0
MOVIE1988
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
as Self (archive footage)
β
5.2
MOVIE1987
Pals
as Fern Stobbs
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5.5
MOVIE1956
Behind the High Wall
as Hilda Carmichael
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5.7
MOVIE1947
Love from a Stranger
as Cecily Harrington
β
7.0
MOVIE1955
Man on the Ledge
as Mrs. Cosick
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8.0
MOVIE1929
Thru Different Eyes
as Valerie Briand
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8.0
MOVIE1927
Broadway Nights
as Performer
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6.3
MOVIE1982
Come Along with Me
as Mrs. Flanner
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5.9
MOVIE1932
The Miracle Man
as Helen Smith aka Helen Vail
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7.4
MOVIE1975
Winner Take All
as Anne Barclay
MOVIE1989
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self
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8.0
MOVIE1946
The Searching Wind
as Cassie Bowman
β
6.3
MOVIE1930
Five Minutes from the Station
as Carrie Adams
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7.0
MOVIE1983
The Brass Ring
as Grandmother
MOVIE1990
Andre's Mother
as Mrs. Downes
β
6.3
MOVIE1931
City Streets
as Nan Cooley
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8.5
MOVIE1981
A Small Killing
as Sadie Ross
MOVIE1957
The Helen Morgan Story
as Lulu Morgan
MOVIE1949
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
as Sylvia Sidney