Sylvia Sidney
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.258 |
| Birthday | 1910-08-09 |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Sophia Kosow, Sylvia Sydney, |
1996
Mars Attacks!
6.4/5373
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim...
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Mars Attacks!
1955
Man on the Ledge
0/0
Beat cop Bragan is about to go off duty when he discovers a man standing on the ledge of a hotel more than a dozen stories up. Bragan tries to talk th...
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Man on the Ledge
1978
Damien: Omen II
6.422/714
Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military sc...
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Damien: Omen II
1976
God Told Me To
5.8/137
A repressed Catholic NYPD detective uncovers a netherworld of deranged faith, alien insemination and his own unholy connection to a homicidal messiah...
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God Told Me To
1976
Raid on Entebbe
6/52
Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The airplane la...
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Raid on Entebbe
1937
Sabotage
6.664/321
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her h...
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Sabotage
1981
A Small Killing
8/1
A college professor is recruited by an undercover cop to pose as a bag lady to track down a drug connection following the brutal killing of a skid row...
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A Small Killing
1937
Dead End
6.939/122
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his...
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Dead End
1990
Andre's Mother
0/0
Written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, Andre's Mother is the story of Katherine Gerard (Sada Thompson) who has lost her son...
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Andre's Mother
1931
City Streets
6.2/39
A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
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City Streets
1936
Fury
7.479/218
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wr...
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Fury
1956
Behind the High Wall
5.2/10
A group prison breakout goes from bad to worse when the desperate warden tries to steal the gang's dough.
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Behind the High Wall
1938
You and Me
6.7/35
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Am...
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You and Me
1955
Violent Saturday
6.7/63
Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.
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Violent Saturday
1977
Snowbeast
4.2/38
A skier and his wife visit a friend's ski resort during a man beast's rampage, and must hide from the impending danger.
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Snowbeast
1932
Madame Butterfly
5.4/17
Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it. He returns three years later...
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Madame Butterfly
1937
You Only Live Once
7.1/166
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is fr...
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You Only Live Once
1932
Merrily We Go to Hell
6.4/37
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to...
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Merrily We Go to Hell
1934
Thirty Day Princess
6.8/17
A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly l...
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Thirty Day Princess
1947
Love from a Stranger
5.7/8
Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Law...
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Love from a Stranger
1973
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
5.6/12
Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationship...
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Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
1985
An Early Frost
6/33
Successful lawyer Michael Pierson is gay, but he has always hidden this part of his life from his mother, Katherine, father, Nick, and grandmother Bea...
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An Early Frost
1945
Blood on the Sun
5.8/33
Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japa...
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Blood on the Sun
1936
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
6.3/26
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1941
The Wagons Roll at Night
6.3/14
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lio...
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The Wagons Roll at Night
1931
An American Tragedy
6.1/16
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
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An American Tragedy
1935
Mary Burns, Fugitive
0/0
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
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Mary Burns, Fugitive
1931
Confessions of a Co-Ed
5.8/4
A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn't love. Soo...
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Confessions of a Co-Ed
1931
Street Scene
6.8/31
The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. T...
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Street Scene
1952
Les Miserables
5.4/15
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
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Les Miserables
1931
Ladies of the Big House
6/1
A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
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Ladies of the Big House
1934
Behold My Wife!
7/2
After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the...
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Behold My Wife!
1933
Pick-up
4.8/4
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, sh...
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Pick-up
1978
Siege
5.2/4
A drama about a community of senior citizens who are terrorized by a ruthless neighborhood gang. After learning that the police are stymied because th...
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Siege
1934
Good Dame
6/1
A chorus girl gets stranded in a small midwestern town. Against her better judgement, she hooks up with a smooth-talking con artist who says he can he...
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Good Dame
1933
Jennie Gerhardt
4/1
This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.
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Jennie Gerhardt
1939
One Third of a Nation
5.8/5
The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's residents.
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One Third of a Nation
1935
Accent on Youth
5.5/2
A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.
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Accent on Youth
1987
Pals
3.7/3
Two retired fishing buddies stumble on an unmarked suitcase filled with three million dollars in cash. Then the fun starts flying as fast as bullets.
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Pals
1946
The Searching Wind
0/0
Always the diplomat, Alex Hazen is slow to take sides in Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. Cassie Bowman wants him to be more decisive and leaves him in...
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The Searching Wind
1975
The Secret Night Caller
6.5/4
A man who is the pillar of his community has a secret - he has a compulsion to make obscene telephone calls.
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The Secret Night Caller
1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
10/1
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually get...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
1957
The Helen Morgan Story
0/0
Broadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate speakeasies to star of top rated shows and owning her...
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The Helen Morgan Story
1931
The House That Shadows Built
7/1
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the...
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The House That Shadows Built
1971
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
5.9/6
Four elderly ladies with a lot of time on their hands get the idea to create a fictional "girl" for a computer dating service. However, things take a...
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Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
1932
The Miracle Man
5.6/5
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and use...
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The Miracle Man
1983
The Brass Ring
7/1
A mother afflicted with depression comes into conflict with own mother and children when she refuses to seek professional health care.
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The Brass Ring
1930
Five Minutes from the Station
6/2
When Bert Adams brings his boss, Mr. Mason, home for dinner, he and his wife Carrie hope Mason will take the opportunity to announce that Bert will be...
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Five Minutes from the Station
1989
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
0/0
A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was founded in 1931 by Cheryl Crawford, Harold Clurman and...
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Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1990
Night of 100 Stars III
4/2
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
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Night of 100 Stars III
1988
Beetlejuice
7.382/7513
A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.
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Beetlejuice
1992
Used People
5.4/29
At her husband's funeral, Pearl, Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend of her husband, whose advice ye...
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Used People
1958
No Time at All
0/0
An airliner flying nonstop at night from Miami to New York fails to check in, then disappears from radar. We see how its disappearance affects people...
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No Time at All
1946
Mr. Ace
5.6/7
A rich society woman uses a gangster to win a congressional election.
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Mr. Ace
1988
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
7/4
A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and interviews with his friends and co-workers.
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Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1980
F.D.R.: The Last Year
7.5/2
Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasio...
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F.D.R.: The Last Year
1983
Copkiller
5.7/19
A NYPD officer imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer, but finds the tables turned when his victim refuses to break and in fact urges more puni...
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Copkiller
1975
Winner Take All
7/4
The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling.
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Winner Take All
1941
Breakdowns of 1941
7/3
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.
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Breakdowns of 1941
1987
The Witching of Ben Wagner
5.6/9
A new family moves into town and their son, Ben, meets a mysterious girl named Regina, who is rumoured to be a witch.
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The Witching of Ben Wagner
1982
Hammett
6.2/64
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living...
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Hammett
1976
Death at Love House
4.7/10
Donna and Joel Gregory are staying at the estate of Lorna Love while researching a book about the long dead Hollywood goddess. Joel, whose father had...
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Death at Love House
1929
Thru Different Eyes
0/0
Harvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose body was found in the Manning home. During the trial, the...
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Thru Different Eyes
1980
The Shadow Box
5.2/6
Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death.
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The Shadow Box
1927
Broadway Nights
6/1
Fannie joins Johnny to perform a music-hall act which becomes a success, until two Broadway producers catch the act and offer Fannie a job on their la...
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Broadway Nights
1985
Finnegan Begin Again
6.3/10
A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.
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Finnegan Begin Again
1977
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
6.2/34
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
1980
The Gossip Columnist
7.5/2
New Tinseltown gossip columnist Dina Moran helps faded movie star Georgia O'Hanlon dig up dirt on amoral characters.
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The Gossip Columnist
1932
Make Me a Star
5.5/4
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
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Make Me a Star
1982
Having It All
5/1
Thera Baylin is a fashion designer with a husband in New York and another one in California.
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Having It All
1982
Come Along with Me
6/3
Newly-widowed Mabel Lederer, who has psychic and mediumistic abilities, sells her house and belongings, changes her name, and moves to a new town. The...
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Come Along with Me
1949
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
0/0
This entry of Screen Snapshots travels to Las Vegas, Nevada, and Ralph Staub visits and talks to many Hollywood notables as they arrive at the famed g...
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Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
1982
Night of 100 Stars
6/1
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...
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