Sylvia Sidney
Acting • Born 1910-08-09 – Died 1999-07-01
Biography
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
112 credits
Mars Attacks!
Movie • 1996
Grandma Norris
Man on the Ledge
Movie • 1955
Mrs. Cosick
Damien - Omen II
Movie • 1978
Aunt Marion
God Told Me To
Movie • 1976
Elizabeth Mullin
Raid on Entebbe
Movie • 1976
Dora Bloch
Sabotage
Movie • 1937
Mrs. Verloc
A Small Killing
Movie • 1981
Sadie Ross
Dead End
Movie • 1937
Drina
Andre's Mother
Movie • 1990
Mrs. Downes
City Streets
Movie • 1931
Nan Cooley
Fury
Movie • 1936
Katherine Grant
Behind the High Wall
Movie • 1956
Hilda Carmichael
You and Me
Movie • 1938
Helen Roberts
Violent Saturday
Movie • 1955
Elsie Braden
Snowbeast
Movie • 1977
Mrs. Carrie Rill
Madame Butterfly
Movie • 1932
Cho-Cho San
You Only Live Once
Movie • 1937
Joan Graham
Merrily We Go to Hell
Movie • 1932
Joan Prentice
Thirty Day Princess
Movie • 1934
Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina
Love from a Stranger
Movie • 1947
Cecily Harrington
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Movie • 1973
Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother
An Early Frost
Movie • 1985
Beatrice McKenna
Blood on the Sun
Movie • 1945
Iris Hilliard
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Movie • 1936
June Tolliver
The Wagons Roll at Night
Movie • 1941
Flo Lorraine
An American Tragedy
Movie • 1931
Roberta 'Bert' Alden
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Movie • 1935
Mary Burns
Confessions of a Co-Ed
Movie • 1931
Patricia Harper
Street Scene
Movie • 1931
Rose Maurrant
Les Miserables
Movie • 1952
Fantine
Ladies of the Big House
Movie • 1931
Kathleen Storm McNeil
Behold My Wife!
Movie • 1934
Tonita Storm Cloud
Pick-up
Movie • 1933
Mary Richards
Siege
Movie • 1978
Lillian Gordon
Good Dame
Movie • 1934
Lillie Taylor
Jennie Gerhardt
Movie • 1933
Jennie Gerhardt
One Third of a Nation
Movie • 1939
Mary Rogers
Accent on Youth
Movie • 1935
Linda Brown
Pals
Movie • 1987
Fern Stobbs
The Searching Wind
Movie • 1946
Cassie Bowman
The Secret Night Caller
Movie • 1975
Kitty
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie • 1984
(archive footage)
The Helen Morgan Story
Movie • 1957
Lulu Morgan
The House That Shadows Built
Movie • 1931
(archive footage)
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
Movie • 1971
Elizabeth Gibson
The Miracle Man
Movie • 1932
Helen Smith aka Helen Vail
The Brass Ring
Movie • 1983
Grandmother
Five Minutes from the Station
Movie • 1930
Carrie Adams
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Movie • 1989
Self
Night of 100 Stars III
Movie • 1990
Self
Beetlejuice
Movie • 1988
Juno
Used People
Movie • 1992
Becky
No Time at All
Movie • 1958
Mrs. Kramer
Mr. Ace
Movie • 1946
Margaret Wyndham Chase
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Movie • 1988
Self (archive footage)
F.D.R.: The Last Year
Movie • 1980
Cousin Polly
Copkiller
Movie • 1983
Margaret Smith
Winner Take All
Movie • 1975
Anne Barclay
Breakdowns of 1941
Movie • 1941
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Witching of Ben Wagner
Movie • 1987
Grammy (Regina's Grandmother)
Hammett
Movie • 1982
Donaldina Cameron
Death at Love House
Movie • 1976
Clara Josephs
Thru Different Eyes
Movie • 1929
Valerie Briand
The Shadow Box
Movie • 1980
Felicity
Broadway Nights
Movie • 1927
Performer
Finnegan Begin Again
Movie • 1985
Margaret
Make Me a Star
Movie • 1932
Sylvia Sidney (uncredited)
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Movie • 1977
Miss Coral
The Gossip Columnist
Movie • 1980
Alma Lewellyn
Having It All
Movie • 1982
Marney
Come Along with Me
Movie • 1982
Mrs. Flanner
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
Movie • 1949
Sylvia Sidney
Night of 100 Stars
Movie • 1982
Self
The Sorrows of Satan
Movie • 1926
Bridesmaid (uncredited)
Magnum, P.I.
TV • 1980
Elizabeth Barrett
Fantasy Island
TV • 1998
Clia
WKRP in Cincinnati
TV • 1978
Lillian Carlson
thirtysomething
TV • 1987
Starsky & Hutch
TV • 1975
Olga Grossman
My Three Sons
TV • 1960
Miss Houk
Naked City
TV • 1958
Florence Nunda
Diagnosis: Murder
TV • 1993
Alice
The Equalizer
TV • 1985
Judge
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Gloria Roma
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Joyce
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Climax!
TV • 1954
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV • 1955
Mrs. Cosick
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
Playwrights '56
TV • 1955
Tales of Tomorrow
TV • 1951
The Defenders
TV • 1961
Adela Collins
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV • 1959
Beulah Ridges
Route 66
TV • 1960
Lonnie Taylor
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Laura Barrie
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Climax!
TV • 1954
Louella Wheedron
Dear John
TV • 1988
Mrs. Lumenski
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Natalie Corson
Playhouse 90
TV • 1956
Mrs. Kramer
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self
Kraft Television Theatre
TV • 1953
Route 66
TV • 1960
Hannah Ellis
The Polly Bergen Show
TV • 1957
Self
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV • 1957
Self
The Ford Television Theatre
TV • 1952
The Ford Television Theatre
TV • 1952
Laura Blake
Cameo Theatre
TV • 1950
Kraft Television Theatre
TV • 1947
American Playhouse
TV • 1982
Mrs. Flanner
Kaz
TV • 1978
Molly
Eight Is Enough
TV • 1977
Aunt Fealty