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
Magnum, P.I.
Elizabeth Barrett
Diagnosis: Murder
Alice
The Love Boat
Natalie Corson
Golden Globe Awards
Self
The Equalizer
Judge
My Three Sons
Miss Houk
Climax!
Climax!
Louella Wheedron
Naked City
Florence Nunda
Starsky & Hutch
Olga Grossman
The Philco Television Playhouse
Route 66
Lonnie Taylor
Route 66
Hannah Ellis
The Defenders
Adela Collins
thirtysomething
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
June Tolliver
Beetlejuice
Juno
Eight Is Enough
Aunt Fealty
The Wagons Roll at Night
Flo Lorraine
One Third of a Nation
Mary Rogers
Confessions of a Co-Ed
Patricia Harper
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Self
WKRP in Cincinnati
Lillian Carlson
Dead End
Drina Gordon
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Mrs. Cosick
Dear John
Mrs. Lumenski
F.D.R.: The Last Year
Cousin Polly
Mars Attacks!
Grandma Norris
God Told Me To
Elizabeth Mullin
Blood on the Sun
Iris Hilliard
Playhouse 90
Mrs. Kramer
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
Kraft Television Theatre
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Beulah Ridges
Raid on Entebbe
Dora Bloch
The Ford Television Theatre
The Ford Television Theatre
Laura Blake
Tales of Tomorrow
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Miss Coral
American Playhouse
Mrs. Flanner
Lux Video Theatre
Joyce
Lux Video Theatre
Laura Barrie
Fantasy Island
Clia
Damien - Omen II
Aunt Marion
The Sorrows of Satan
Bridesmaid (uncredited)
Accent on Youth
Linda Brown
Kaz
Molly
The Miracle Man
Helen Smith aka Helen Vail
Come Along with Me
Mrs. Flanner
A Small Killing
Sadie Ross
An Early Frost
Beatrice McKenna
Playwrights '56
An American Tragedy
Roberta 'Bert' Alden
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother
The Secret Night Caller
Kitty
Make Me a Star
Sylvia Sidney (uncredited)
Thru Different Eyes
Valerie Briand
Street Scene
Rose Maurrant
Violent Saturday
Elsie Braden
The Shadow Box
Felicity
The House That Shadows Built
(archive footage)
The Helen Morgan Story
Lulu Morgan
Five Minutes from the Station
Carrie Adams
Madame Butterfly
Cho-Cho San
You Only Live Once
Joan Graham
Les Miserables
Fantine
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
Cameo Theatre
Pick-up
Mary Richards
Night of 100 Stars
Self
City Streets
Nan Cooley
Death at Love House
Clara Josephs
Fury
Katherine Grant
Broadway Nights
Performer
Hammett
Donaldina Cameron
Sabotage
Mrs. Verloc
Copkiller
Margaret Smith
Love from a Stranger
Cecily Harrington
You and Me
Helen Roberts
Siege
Lillian Gordon
Used People
Becky
Snowbeast
Mrs. Carrie Rill
Ladies of the Big House
Kathleen Storm McNeil
Mr. Ace
Margaret Wyndham Chase
General Electric Theater
Gloria Roma
Breakdowns of 1941
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Kraft Television Theatre
Merrily We Go to Hell
Joan Prentice
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Pals
Fern Stobbs
Behold My Wife!
Tonita Storm Cloud
Jennie Gerhardt
Jennie Gerhardt
Man on the Ledge
Mrs. Cosick
Thirty Day Princess
Nancy Lane / Princess Catterina
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Mary Burns
Having It All
Marney
Winner Take All
Anne Barclay
Andre's Mother
Mrs. Downes
The Witching of Ben Wagner
Grammy (Regina's Grandmother)
The Polly Bergen Show
Self
Behind the High Wall
Hilda Carmichael
Good Dame
Lillie Taylor
The Searching Wind
Cassie Bowman
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
Sylvia Sidney
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Self (archive footage)
The Gossip Columnist
Alma Lewellyn
Finnegan Begin Again
Margaret
The Brass Ring
Grandmother
No Time at All
Mrs. Kramer
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
Elizabeth Gibson
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self