Sylvia Sidney

Aug 09, 1910 - Jul 01, 1999 (88 years old) in 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).

Known For

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My Three Sons

Miss Houk

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The Philco Television Playhouse

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The Love Boat

Natalie Corson

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Magnum, P.I.

Elizabeth Barrett

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Diagnosis: Murder

Alice

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The Equalizer

Judge

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Climax!

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Naked City

Florence Nunda

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Tales of Tomorrow

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Eight Is Enough

Credits

Fantasy Island 1998

Clia

★ 7.5
Mars Attacks! 1996

Grandma Norris

★ 6.4
Diagnosis: Murder 1993

Alice

★ 7.1
Used People 1992

Becky

★ 5.5
Night of 100 Stars III 1990

Self

★ 4
Andre's Mother 1990

Mrs. Downes

★ NR
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre 1989

Self

★ NR
Dear John 1988

Mrs. Lumenski

★ 5.7
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man 1988

Self (archive footage)

★ 7
Beetlejuice 1988

Juno

★ 7.4
The Witching of Ben Wagner 1987

Grammy (Regina's Grandmother)

★ 5.6
thirtysomething 1987

★ 6.1
Pals 1987

Fern Stobbs

★ 3.7
The Equalizer 1985

Judge

★ 7.2
An Early Frost 1985

Beatrice McKenna

★ 6
Finnegan Begin Again 1985

Margaret

★ 6.3
Going Hollywood: The '30s 1984

(archive footage)

★ 10
Copkiller 1983

Margaret Smith

★ 5.8
The Brass Ring 1983

Grandmother

★ 7
Having It All 1982

Marney

★ 5
Hammett 1982

Donaldina Cameron

★ 6.2
Night of 100 Stars 1982

Self

★ 6.7
Come Along with Me 1982

Mrs. Flanner

★ 6
A Small Killing 1981

Sadie Ross

★ 8
Magnum, P.I. 1980

Elizabeth Barrett

★ 7.3
The Shadow Box 1980

Felicity

★ 5.2
F.D.R.: The Last Year 1980

Cousin Polly

★ 5.8
The Gossip Columnist 1980

Alma Lewellyn

★ 7.5
WKRP in Cincinnati 1978

Mama Carlson

★ 7.5
Damien - Omen II 1978

Aunt Marion

★ 6.4
Siege 1978

Lillian Gordon

★ 5.2
The Love Boat 1977

Natalie Corson

★ 6.3
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden 1977

Miss Coral

★ 6.2
Snowbeast 1977

Mrs. Carrie Rill

★ 4.2
Eight Is Enough 1977

★ 6
Raid on Entebbe 1976

Dora Bloch

★ 6
God Told Me To 1976

Elizabeth Mullin

★ 5.9
Death at Love House 1976

Clara Josephs

★ 4.7
Starsky & Hutch 1975

Olga Grossman

★ 7.3
Winner Take All 1975

Anne Barclay

★ 7
The Secret Night Caller 1975

Kitty

★ 6.5
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams 1973

Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother

★ 5.6
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate 1971

Elizabeth Gibson

★ 5.9
The Defenders 1961

Adela Collins

★ 6.2
Route 66 1960

Lonnie Taylor

★ 6.3
My Three Sons 1960

Miss Houk

★ 6.5
The DuPont Show with June Allyson 1959

Beulah Ridges

★ 6.3
Naked City 1958

Florence Nunda

★ 5.5
No Time at All 1958

Mrs. Kramer

★ NR
The Polly Bergen Show 1957

Self

★ NR
The Helen Morgan Story 1957

Lulu Morgan

★ NR
Playhouse 90 1956

Mrs. Kramer

★ 7.6
Behind the High Wall 1956

Hilda Carmichael

★ 5.1
Man on the Ledge 1955

Mrs. Cosick

★ NR
The 20th Century Fox Hour 1955

Mrs. Cosick

★ 5.4
Playwrights '56 1955

★ 6
Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955

Mrs. Sylvia Verloc (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 7.7
Violent Saturday 1955

Elsie Braden

★ 6.7
Climax! 1954

★ 3.3
Kraft Television Theatre 1953

★ NR
General Electric Theater 1953

Gloria Roma

★ 6.3
The Ford Television Theatre 1952

★ 7.3
Les Miserables 1952

Fantine

★ 5.4
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars 1951

★ 7.3
Tales of Tomorrow 1951

★ 6
Lux Video Theatre 1950

Joyce

★ 6.3
Cameo Theatre 1950

★ NR
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner 1949

Sylvia Sidney

★ NR
The Philco Television Playhouse 1948

★ 6.3
Love from a Stranger 1947

Cecily Harrington

★ 5.7
The Searching Wind 1946

Cassie Bowman

★ NR
Mr. Ace 1946

Margaret Wyndham Chase

★ 5.6
Blood on the Sun 1945

Iris Hilliard

★ 5.9
Breakdowns of 1941 1941

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 7
The Wagons Roll at Night 1941

Flo Lorraine

★ 6.4
One Third of a Nation 1939

Mary Rogers

★ 5.8
You and Me 1938

Helen Roberts

★ 6.7
Dead End 1937

Drina Gordon

★ 7
You Only Live Once 1937

Joan Graham

★ 7.1
Sabotage 1937

Mrs. Verloc

★ 6.7
Fury 1936

Katherine Grant

★ 7.4
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine 1936

June Tolliver

★ 6.4
Mary Burns, Fugitive 1935

Mary Burns

★ NR
Accent on Youth 1935

Linda Brown

★ 5.5
Behold My Wife! 1934

Tonita Storm Cloud

★ 7
Thirty Day Princess 1934

Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina

★ 6.8
Good Dame 1934

Lillie Taylor

★ 5.5
Jennie Gerhardt 1933

Jennie Gerhardt

★ 4
Pick-up 1933

Mary Richards

★ 4.8
Madame Butterfly 1932

Cho-Cho San

★ 5.5
Make Me a Star 1932

Sylvia Sidney (uncredited)

★ 5.5
Merrily We Go to Hell 1932

Joan Prentice

★ 6.4
The Miracle Man 1932

Helen Smith aka Helen Vail

★ 5.7
Ladies of the Big House 1931

Kathleen Storm McNeil

★ 6
Street Scene 1931

Rose Maurrant

★ 6.8
An American Tragedy 1931

Roberta 'Bert' Alden

★ 6.1
Confessions of a Co-Ed 1931

Patricia Harper

★ 5.8
The House That Shadows Built 1931

(archive footage)

★ 7
City Streets 1931

Nan Cooley

★ 6.2
Five Minutes from the Station 1930

Carrie Adams

★ 6
Thru Different Eyes 1929

Valerie Briand

★ NR
Broadway Nights 1927

Performer

★ 6
The Sorrows of Satan 1926

Bridesmaid (uncredited)

★ 6.7

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