Sid Caesar

Personal Info

Birthday

September 8, 1922

Day of Death

2014-02-12

(91 years old)

Place of Birth

Yonkers, New York, USA

Also Known As

Isaac Sidney Caesar

Sid Caesar

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 Love Boat

Mad About You

The Lucy Show

Love, American Style

Amazing Stories

Grease

Checkmate

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Filmography

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