Sylvia Sidney
Acting
1910-08-09 · 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
1998 · Series
Mars Attacks!
1996 · Movie
Diagnosis: Murder
1993 · Series
Used People
1992 · Movie
Night of 100 Stars III
1990 · Movie
Andre's Mother
1990 · Movie
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989 · Movie
Dear John
1988 · Series
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988 · Movie
Beetlejuice
1988 · Movie
The Witching of Ben Wagner
1987 · Movie
thirtysomething
1987 · Series
Pals
1987 · Movie
The Equalizer
1985 · Series
An Early Frost
1985 · Movie
Finnegan Begin Again
1985 · Movie
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984 · Movie
Copkiller
1983 · Movie
The Brass Ring
1983 · Movie
Having It All
1982 · Movie
Hammett
1982 · Movie
Night of 100 Stars
1982 · Movie
Come Along with Me
1982 · Movie
American Playhouse
1982 · Series
A Small Killing
1981 · Movie
Magnum, P.I.
1980 · Series
The Shadow Box
1980 · Movie
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980 · Movie
The Gossip Columnist
1980 · Movie
Supertrain
1979 · Series
WKRP in Cincinnati
1978 · Series
Kaz
1978 · Series
Damien - Omen II
1978 · Movie
Siege
1978 · Movie
The Love Boat
1977 · Series
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
1977 · Movie
Snowbeast
1977 · Movie
Eight Is Enough
1977 · Series
Raid on Entebbe
1976 · Movie
God Told Me To
1976 · Movie
Death at Love House
1976 · Movie
Starsky & Hutch
1975 · Series
Winner Take All
1975 · Movie
The Secret Night Caller
1975 · Movie
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
1973 · Movie
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
1971 · Movie
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Series
The Defenders
1961 · Series
Special for Women
1960 · Series
Route 66
1960 · Series
My Three Sons
1960 · Series
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959 · Series
Naked City
1958 · Series
No Time at All
1958 · Movie
The Polly Bergen Show
1957 · Series
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957 · Series
The Helen Morgan Story
1957 · Movie
Playhouse 90
1956 · Series
Behind the High Wall
1956 · Movie
Man on the Ledge
1955 · Movie
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955 · Series
Playwrights '56
1955 · Series
Violent Saturday
1955 · Movie
Climax!
1954 · Series
Kraft Television Theatre
1953 · Series
General Electric Theater
1953 · Series
The Ford Television Theatre
1952 · Series
Les Miserables
1952 · Movie
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Series
Tales of Tomorrow
1951 · Series
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Series
Cameo Theatre
1950 · Series
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
1949 · Movie
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · Series
Love from a Stranger
1947 · Movie
Kraft Television Theatre
1947 · Series
The Searching Wind
1946 · Movie
Mr. Ace
1946 · Movie
Blood on the Sun
1945 · Movie
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series
Breakdowns of 1941
1941 · Movie
The Wagons Roll at Night
1941 · Movie
One Third of a Nation
1939 · Movie
You and Me
1938 · Movie
Dead End
1937 · Movie
You Only Live Once
1937 · Movie
Sabotage
1937 · Movie
Fury
1936 · Movie
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936 · Movie
Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935 · Movie
Accent on Youth
1935 · Movie
Behold My Wife!
1934 · Movie
Thirty Day Princess
1934 · Movie
Good Dame
1934 · Movie
Jennie Gerhardt
1933 · Movie
Pick-up
1933 · Movie
Madame Butterfly
1932 · Movie
Make Me a Star
1932 · Movie
Merrily We Go to Hell
1932 · Movie
The Miracle Man
1932 · Movie
Ladies of the Big House
1931 · Movie
Street Scene
1931 · Movie
An American Tragedy
1931 · Movie
Confessions of a Co-Ed
1931 · Movie
The House That Shadows Built
1931 · Movie
City Streets
1931 · Movie
Five Minutes from the Station
1930 · Movie
Thru Different Eyes
1929 · Movie
Broadway Nights
1927 · Movie
The Sorrows of Satan
1926 · Movie