Person
Sid Caesar
Acting · 1922–2014 · Yonkers, New York, USA
Biography
Sid Caesar (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2014) was an American comic actor and writer, known as the leading man on the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows and as Coach Calhoun in Grease and Grease 2.
Known for
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
The Love Boat
Michael Harmon
Love, American Style
John Smith
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
The Lucy Show
Sid Caesar
Mad About You
Uncle Harold
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
Filmography
- 2024Remembering Gene WilderSelf (archive footage)
- 2023It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie PointMelville Crump (archive footage)
- 2018Mel Brooks: UnwrappedSelf (archive footage)
- 2017The Grease StoryCoach Calhoun (archive footage)
- 2013Mel Brooks: Make a NoiseSelf
- 2012In the Beginning: The Caesar YearsSelf
- 2012LunchHimself
- 2011Woody Allen: A DocumentaryThanks
- 2009Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the WorldSelf (archive footage)
- 2008The Jewish AmericansSelf
- 2005Pioneers of Primetime
- 2004Comic Book: The MovieOld Army Buddy
- 2003Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid CaesarHimself
- 2002Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days AdventureJacob (voice)
- 2002NBC 75th Anniversary SpecialSelf
- 2002Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts StorySelf (uncredited)
- 2000The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TVSelf
- 2000The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's RoomHimself
- 2000The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the ComedyHimself
- 1999Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: A Salute to the Friars ClubSelf
- 1999Television: The First Fifty YearsSelf (archive footage)
- 1998Whose Line Is It Anyway?Self
- 1998The Wonderful Ice Cream SuitSid Zellman
- 1997Vegas VacationMr. Ellis
- 1996Caesar's WritersSelf
- 1995The Great Mom SwapPapa Tognetti
- 1995The 100 Funniest Moments of the 20th Century: The UnexpectedThanks
- 1992Mad About YouUncle Harold
- 1992Love & War
- 1991Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'Self
- 1988Side by SideLouis Hammerstein
- 1988Wall of TyrannyMax
- 1987Happy 100th Birthday, HollywoodSelf
- 1987The Emperor's New ClothesThe Emperor
- 1986Christmas SnowMr. Snyder
- 1985Love Is Never SilentMr. Petrakis
- 1985Alice in WonderlandGryphon
- 1985StoogemaniaDoctor Fixyer Mindyer
- 1985Amazing StoriesLou Bundles
- 1984All Star Party for Lucille BallSelf
- 1984Cannonball Run IIFisherman #2
- 1984Over the Brooklyn BridgeUncle Benjamin
- 1983Found MoneySam Green
- 1983The Boys of SummerHost
- 1982Matt Houston
- 1982Grease 2Coach Vince Calhoun
- 1981History of the World: Part IChief Caveman
- 1981The Munsters' RevengeDr. Dustin Diablo
- 1980Thanksgiving in the Land of OzWizard / Mince Pie U.N. Krust / Narrator (voice)
- 1980The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu ManchuJoe Capone
- 1980The Big ShowSelf
- 1980Pink LadySid Caesar
- 1979Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the PlanetKing Goochi (voice)
- 1979America 2100MAX (voice)
- 1978Vega$
- 1978W.E.B.
- 1978The Cheap DetectiveEzra Dezire
- 1978GreaseCoach Calhoun
- 1977The Love BoatMichael Harmon
- 1977Curse of the Black WidowLazlo Cozart
- 1977Barnaby and MeLeo Fisk
- 1977Fire SaleSherman
- 1977Flight to HolocaustGeorge Beam
- 1976Silent MovieStudio Chief
- 1976Good Heavens
- 1975Ann-Margret SmithSelf
- 1975Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television(archive footage)
- 1975Saturday Night LiveSelf - Host
- 1975When Things Were RottenMarquis de la Salle
- 1974Tony Orlando and DawnSelf
- 1974Dinah!Self
- 1974Airport 1975Barney
- 1974Hamburgersself
- 1973The Dean Martin Celebrity RoastsSelf
- 1973Ten from Your Show of Shows
- 1973The Bobby Darin Show
- 1972The Julie Andrews HourSelf
- 1970The Flip Wilson ShowSelf
- 1970The Don Knotts ShowSelf
- 1969Love, American StyleJohn Smith
- 1968The Dick Cavett ShowSelf - Guest
- 1968Rowan & Martin's Laugh-InSelf
- 1967The Carol Burnett ShowSelf - Guest
- 1967The Spirit Is WillingBen Powell
- 1967A Guide for the Married ManTechnical Adviser
- 1967The Busy BodyGeorge Norton
- 1966That GirlMarty Nickels
- 1965The Dean Martin Show
- 1964The Hollywood PalaceSelf
- 1963It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad WorldMelville Crump
- 1962The Lucy ShowSid Caesar
- 1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonSelf
- 1961The Mike Douglas ShowSelf
- 1960CheckmateJohnny Wilder
- 1959Some of Manie's Friends
- 1958The All-Star Christmas ShowSelf
- 1956The Dinah Shore Chevy ShowSelf
- 1954Caesar's HourSelf - Host
- 1953General Electric TheaterNick Lucifer
- 1951Hallmark Hall of FameMr. Petrakis
- 1950The Colgate Comedy HourSelf
- 1950Your Show of ShowsSelf - Regular Performer
- 1950What's My Line?Self - Mystery Guest
- 1949The Admiral Broadway Revue
- 1948The Ed Sullivan ShowSelf
- 1947The Guilt of Janet AmesSammy Weaver
- 1946Tars and SparsChuck Enders
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