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).
Filmography
Kraft Television Theatre
1953 · 10.0
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984 · 9.0
Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935 · 9.0
The House That Shadows Built
1931 · 8.5
Cameo Theatre
1950 · 8.0
Behold My Wife!
1934 · 8.0
No Time at All
1958 · 8.0
Thru Different Eyes
1929 · 8.0
Broadway Nights
1927 · 8.0
The Searching Wind
1946 · 8.0
Kraft Television Theatre
1947 · 7.8
The Ford Television Theatre
1952 · 7.8
WKRP in Cincinnati
1978 · 7.6
Fantasy Island
1998 · 7.6
Playhouse 90
1956 · 7.5
Fury
1936 · 7.5
Winner Take All
1975 · 7.4
Starsky & Hutch
1975 · 7.4
Beetlejuice
1988 · 7.4
The Gossip Columnist
1980 · 7.3
Magnum, P.I.
1980 · 7.3
The Equalizer
1985 · 7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · 7.2
The Sorrows of Satan
1926 · 7.2
Dead End
1937 · 7.1
You Only Live Once
1937 · 7.1
Diagnosis: Murder
1993 · 7.1
Kaz
1978 · 7.0
The Brass Ring
1983 · 7.0
Good Dame
1934 · 7.0
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980 · 6.9
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959 · 6.8
General Electric Theater
1953 · 6.8
Violent Saturday
1955 · 6.8
Street Scene
1931 · 6.8
Thirty Day Princess
1934 · 6.8
Siege
1978 · 6.8
Route 66
1960 · 6.7
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · 6.7
Sabotage
1936 · 6.7
Accent on Youth
1935 · 6.7
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · 6.6
American Playhouse
1982 · 6.6
My Three Sons
1960 · 6.6
You and Me
1938 · 6.6
The Secret Night Caller
1975 · 6.6
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936 · 6.5
Having It All
1982 · 6.5
The Wagons Roll at Night
1941 · 6.5
Finnegan Begin Again
1985 · 6.5
Mars Attacks!
1996 · 6.4
Damien - Omen II
1978 · 6.4
Tales of Tomorrow
1951 · 6.4
Merrily We Go to Hell
1932 · 6.4
Make Me a Star
1932 · 6.4
The Defenders
1961 · 6.3
thirtysomething
1987 · 6.3
Special for Women
1960 · 6.3
An American Tragedy
1931 · 6.3
City Streets
1931 · 6.3
The Love Boat
1977 · 6.2
Eight Is Enough
1977 · 6.2
Playwrights '56
1955 · 6.2
Hammett
1982 · 6.2
Come Along with Me
1982 · 6.2
One Third of a Nation
1939 · 6.2
Five Minutes from the Station
1930 · 6.2
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
1971 · 6.1
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955 · 6.0
Copkiller
1983 · 6.0
Confessions of a Co-Ed
1931 · 6.0
Ladies of the Big House
1931 · 6.0
Raid on Entebbe
1976 · 6.0
God Told Me To
1976 · 5.9
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
1977 · 5.9
Blood on the Sun
1945 · 5.9
The Miracle Man
1932 · 5.9
Mr. Ace
1946 · 5.8
Used People
1992 · 5.8
An Early Frost
1985 · 5.8
Naked City
1958 · 5.7
Dear John
1988 · 5.7
Love from a Stranger
1947 · 5.7
Jennie Gerhardt
1933 · 5.7
Supertrain
1979 · 5.6
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
1973 · 5.6
Les Miserables
1952 · 5.5
Behind the High Wall
1956 · 5.5
Madame Butterfly
1932 · 5.4
The Witching of Ben Wagner
1987 · 5.4
Pals
1987 · 5.2
Pick-up
1933 · 5.1
Death at Love House
1976 · 5.0
Snowbeast
1977 · 4.3
Climax!
1954 · 3.8
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
1949 · 0.0