Sid Caesar

Known for: Acting
Born: September 8, 1922, Yonkers, New York, USA
Died: February 12, 2014
Movies: 63

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.

Best-Known Movies

7.4

Grease

1978

6.7

History of the World: Part I

1981

5.3

Grease 2

1982

6.0

Vegas Vacation

1997

7.0

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

1963

5.4

Cannonball Run II

1984

6.5

Silent Movie

1976

5.8

Airport 1975

1974

6.4

The Cheap Detective

1978

6.0

A Guide for the Married Man

1967

Filmography

2024	Remembering Gene Wilder	Self (archive footage)
2023	It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point	Melville Crump (archive footage)
2018	Mel Brooks: Unwrapped	Self (archive footage)
2017	The Grease Story	Coach Calhoun (archive footage)
2013	Mel Brooks: Make a Noise	Self
2012	In the Beginning: The Caesar Years	Self
2012	Lunch	Himself
2009	Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World	Self (archive footage)
2005	Pioneers of Primetime
2004	Comic Book: The Movie	Old Army Buddy
2003	Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar	Himself
2002	Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure	Jacob (voice)
2002	NBC 75th Anniversary Special	Self
2002	Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story	Self (uncredited)
2000	The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV	Self
2000	The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room	Himself
2000	The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy	Himself
1999	Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: A Salute to the Friars Club	Self
1999	Television: The First Fifty Years	Self (archive footage)
1998	The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit	Sid Zellman
1997	Vegas Vacation	Mr. Ellis
1996	Caesar's Writers	Self
1995	The Great Mom Swap	Papa Tognetti
1991	Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'	Self
1988	Side by Side	Louis Hammerstein
1988	Wall of Tyranny	Max
1987	Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood	Self
1987	The Emperor's New Clothes	The Emperor
1986	Christmas Snow	Mr. Snyder
1985	Love Is Never Silent	Mr. Petrakis
1985	Stoogemania	Doctor Fixyer Mindyer
1984	All Star Party for Lucille Ball	Self
1984	Cannonball Run II	Fisherman #2
1984	Over the Brooklyn Bridge	Uncle Benjamin
1983	Found Money	Sam Green
1983	The Boys of Summer	Host
1982	Grease 2	Coach Vince Calhoun
1981	History of the World: Part I	Chief Caveman
1981	The Munsters' Revenge	Dr. Dustin Diablo
1980	Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz	Wizard / Mince Pie U.N. Krust / Narrator (voice)
1980	The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu	Joe Capone
1979	Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet	King Goochi (voice)
1979	America 2100	MAX (voice)
1978	The Cheap Detective	Ezra Dezire
1978	Grease	Coach Calhoun
1977	Curse of the Black Widow	Lazlo Cozart
1977	Barnaby and Me	Leo Fisk
1977	Fire Sale	Sherman
1977	Flight to Holocaust	George Beam
1976	Silent Movie	Studio Chief
1975	Ann-Margret Smith	Self
1975	Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television	(archive footage)
1974	Airport 1975	Barney
1974	Hamburgers	Self
1973	Ten from Your Show of Shows
1967	The Spirit Is Willing	Ben Powell
1967	A Guide for the Married Man	Technical Adviser
1967	The Busy Body	George Norton
1963	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	Melville Crump
1959	Some of Manie's Friends
1958	The All-Star Christmas Show	Self
1947	The Guilt of Janet Ames	Sammy Weaver
1946	Tars and Spars	Chuck Enders

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