Sylvia Sidney
Born in The Bronx, New York, USA — Aug 09 1910• Died Jul 01 1999
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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).
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Diagnosis: Murder
Alice
The Love Boat
Natalie Corson
Magnum, P.I.
Elizabeth Barrett
My Three Sons
Miss Houk
Climax!
Starsky & Hutch
Olga Grossman
The Equalizer
Judge
Naked City
Florence Nunda
The Defenders
Adela Collins
Route 66
Lonnie Taylor
Eight Is Enough
Aunt Fealty
Kraft Television Theatre
Dear John
Mrs. Lumenski
thirtysomething
The Ford Television Theatre
The Philco Television Playhouse
WKRP in Cincinnati
Lillian Carlson
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Mrs. Cosick
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Beulah Ridges
Playhouse 90
Mrs. Kramer
Beetlejuice
Juno
Lux Video Theatre
Joyce
Fantasy Island
Clia
American Playhouse
Mrs. Flanner
Tales of Tomorrow
Kaz
Molly
Mars Attacks!
Grandma Norris
Playwrights '56
Raid on Entebbe
Dora Bloch
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
General Electric Theater
Gloria Roma
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Damien - Omen II
Aunt Marion
Cameo Theatre
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
Dead End
Drina
Sabotage
Mrs. Verloc
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
Kraft Television Theatre
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Self
Used People
Becky
God Told Me To
Elizabeth Mullin
Fury
Katherine Grant
You and Me
Helen Roberts
Merrily We Go to Hell
Joan Prentice
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Miss Coral
Copkiller
Margaret Smith
Make Me a Star
Sylvia Sidney (uncredited)
Hammett
Donaldina Cameron
Street Scene
Rose Maurrant
Good Dame
Lillie Taylor
An American Tragedy
Roberta 'Bert' Alden
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Self (archive footage)
Snowbeast
Mrs. Carrie Rill
City Streets
Nan Cooley
Pals
Fern Stobbs
F.D.R.: The Last Year
Cousin Polly
Finnegan Begin Again
Margaret
A Small Killing
Sadie Ross
The Gossip Columnist
Alma Lewellyn
You Only Live Once
Joan Graham
The Wagons Roll at Night
Flo Lorraine
Violent Saturday
Elsie Braden
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
Elizabeth Gibson
No Time at All
Mrs. Kramer
Having It All
Marney
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
June Tolliver
An Early Frost
Beatrice McKenna
Blood on the Sun
Iris Hilliard
The Brass Ring
Grandmother
Thirty Day Princess
Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina
Andre's Mother
Mrs. Downes
The Shadow Box
Felicity
One Third of a Nation
Mary Rogers
Behold My Wife!
Tonita Storm Cloud
The House That Shadows Built
(archive footage)
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother
Breakdowns of 1941
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Siege
Lillian Gordon
Mr. Ace
Margaret Wyndham Chase
Madame Butterfly
Cho-Cho San
Love from a Stranger
Cecily Harrington
Winner Take All
Anne Barclay
The Miracle Man
Helen Smith aka Helen Vail
The Witching of Ben Wagner
Grammy (Regina's Grandmother)
Death at Love House
Clara Josephs
Behind the High Wall
Hilda Carmichael
The Searching Wind
Cassie Bowman
Come Along with Me
Mrs. Flanner
Confessions of a Co-Ed
Patricia Harper
Man on the Ledge
Mrs. Cosick
Jennie Gerhardt
Jennie Gerhardt
Les Miserables
Fantine
The Polly Bergen Show
Self
Accent on Youth
Linda Brown
Pick-up
Mary Richards
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Mary Burns
The Secret Night Caller
Kitty
Thru Different Eyes
Valerie Briand
Five Minutes from the Station
Carrie Adams
The Helen Morgan Story
Lulu Morgan
The Sorrows of Satan
Bridesmaid (uncredited)
Ladies of the Big House
Kathleen Storm McNeil
Broadway Nights
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Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
Sylvia Sidney