Sylvia Sidney
American actress (1910-1999) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 88
Sylvia Sidney 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 was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams in 1973.
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Mars Attacks!Film, Grandma Norris1993
Diagnosis: MurderSeries, Alice1988
BeetlejuiceFilm, Juno1987
thirtysomethingSeries1986Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television FilmAward1985
An Early FrostFilm, Beatrice McKenna1982
American PlayhouseSeries, Mrs. Flanner
HammettFilm, 1982Donaldina Cameron1978
Damien - Omen IIFilm, Aunt Marion1977
Eight Is EnoughSeries, Aunt Fealty1976
Death at Love HouseFilm, Clara Josephs1961
The DefendersSeries, Adela Collins1958
Naked CitySeries, Florence Nunda1956
Playhouse 90Series, Mrs. Kramer
Behind the High WallFilm, 1956Hilda Carmichael1952
The Ford Television TheatreSeries, Laura Blake
Les MiserablesFilm, 1952Fantine1948
The Philco Television PlayhouseSeries1946
Mr. AceFilm, Margaret Wyndham Chase1944
Golden Globe AwardsSeries1941
The Wagons Roll at NightFilm, Flo Lorraine1937
Dead EndFilm, Drina1934
Thirty Day PrincessFilm, Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina1932
Madame ButterflyFilm, Cho-cho San1926
The Sorrows of SatanFilm, Bridesmaid (uncredited)1910Born8 August 1910People around Sylvia
Marion Gering Directed Thirty-Day Princess (1934)
B. P. Schulberg Produced Thirty-Day Princess (1934)
Fritz Lang Directed Fury and You Only Live Once
Walter Wanger Produced You Only Live Once (1937)
Tim Burton Directed Beetlejuice and Mars Attacks!
Samuel Goldwyn Produced Dead End and Street Scene
Cary Grant Also in Thirty-Day Princess and Madame Butterfly
Danny Elfman Wrote Beetlejuice and Mars Attacks!
Lewis Milestone Directed Les Misérables (1952)
Alfred Newman Wrote Dead End and You Only Live Once
Ward Bond Also in Fury, You Only Live Once and Dead End
Edward Arnold Also in Thirty-Day Princess and Jennie Gerhardt- Allan Arbus Also in Damien: Omen II and Raid on Entebbe
Don Taylor Directed Damien: Omen II (1982)
Robert McWade Also in Thirty-Day Princess and Pick-up
Dudley Murphy Directed ...One Third of a Nation... (1939)- Harvey Bernhard Produced Damien: Omen II (1979)
- Edgar Scherick Produced Raid on Entebbe (1976)
Fred Kohlmar Produced Les Misérables (1952)
Alfred Hitchcock Directed Sabotage (1937)
Humphrey Bogart Also in The Wagons Roll at Night and Dead End
Paul Newman Directed The Shadow Box (1980)
Francis Ford Coppola Produced Hammett (1983)
Henry Fonda Also in You Only Live Once (1937)
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Fury 1936
Beetlejuice 1988
You Only Live Once 1937
Dead End 1937
Violent Saturday 1955
Filmography 40
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Television 24
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She later gained attention for her role as Juno, a case worker in the afterlife, in Tim Burton's 1988 film Beetlejuice, for which she won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress.
