Sylvia Sidney
Actor
Born August 9, 1910 in The Bronx, New York, USA
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).
Filmography
Fantasy Island
Clia
Mars Attacks!
Grandma Norris
Diagnosis: Murder
Alice
Used People
Becky
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
Andre's Mother
Mrs. Downes
Dear John
Mrs. Lumenski
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Self (archive footage)
Beetlejuice
Juno
The Witching of Ben Wagner
Grammy (Regina's Grandmother)
thirtysomething
Pals
Fern Stobbs
The Equalizer
Judge
An Early Frost
Beatrice McKenna
Finnegan Begin Again
Margaret
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
Copkiller
Margaret Smith
The Brass Ring
Grandmother
Having It All
Marney
Hammett
Donaldina Cameron
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Come Along with Me
Mrs. Flanner
American Playhouse
Mrs. Flanner
A Small Killing
Sadie Ross
Magnum, P.I.
Elizabeth Barrett
The Shadow Box
Felicity
F.D.R.: The Last Year
Cousin Polly
The Gossip Columnist
Alma Lewellyn
Supertrain
Agatha Wills
WKRP in Cincinnati
Lillian Carlson
Kaz
Molly
Damien - Omen II
Aunt Marion
Siege
Lillian Gordon
The Love Boat
Natalie Corson
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Miss Coral
Snowbeast
Mrs. Carrie Rill
Eight Is Enough
Aunt Fealty
Raid on Entebbe
Dora Bloch
God Told Me To
Elizabeth Mullin
Death at Love House
Clara Josephs
Starsky & Hutch
Olga Grossman
Winner Take All
Anne Barclay
The Secret Night Caller
Kitty
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
Elizabeth Gibson
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
The Defenders
Adela Collins
Special for Women
Minna Borden
Route 66
Lonnie Taylor
My Three Sons
Miss Houk
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Beulah Ridges
Naked City
Florence Nunda
No Time at All
Mrs. Kramer
The Helen Morgan Story
Lulu Morgan
Playhouse 90
Mrs. Kramer
Behind the High Wall
Hilda Carmichael
Man on the Ledge
Mrs. Cosick
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Mrs. Cosick
Violent Saturday
Elsie Braden
Climax!
General Electric Theater
Gloria Roma
The Ford Television Theatre
Les Miserables
Fantine
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Tales of Tomorrow
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
Sylvia Sidney
The Philco Television Playhouse
Love from a Stranger
Cecily Harrington
Kraft Television Theatre
The Searching Wind
Cassie Bowman
Mr. Ace
Margaret Wyndham Chase
Blood on the Sun
Iris Hilliard
Golden Globe Awards
Self
Breakdowns of 1941
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Wagons Roll at Night
Flo Lorraine
One Third of a Nation
Mary Rogers
You and Me
Helen Roberts
Dead End
Drina
You Only Live Once
Joan Graham
Sabotage
Mrs. Verloc
Fury
Katherine Grant
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
June Tolliver
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Mary Burns
Accent on Youth
Linda Brown
Behold My Wife!
Tonita Storm Cloud
Thirty Day Princess
Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina
Good Dame
Lillie Taylor
Jennie Gerhardt
Jennie Gerhardt
Pick-up
Mary Richards
Madame Butterfly
Cho-cho San
Make Me a Star
Sylvia Sidney (uncredited)
Merrily We Go to Hell
Joan Prentice
The Miracle Man
Helen Smith aka Helen Vail
Ladies of the Big House
Kathleen Storm McNeil
Street Scene
Rose Maurrant
An American Tragedy
Roberta 'Bert' Alden
Confessions of a Co-Ed
Patricia Harper
The House That Shadows Built
(archive footage)
City Streets
Nan Cooley
Five Minutes from the Station
Carrie Adams
Thru Different Eyes
Valerie Briand
Broadway Nights
Performer
The Sorrows of Satan
Bridesmaid (uncredited)