Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 09, 1910
Died
Jul 01, 1999
Place of Birth
The Bronx, New York, USA
Credits
110 titles
Sylvia Sidney
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).
Known For
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
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Self
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