Sid Caesar

Acting / Production / Writing / Creator

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.

Personal Information

Place of Birth

Yonkers, New York, USA

About

Acting, Male

Birthday

08 September 1922, 103 years old

Known For

Grease

History of the World: Part I

Grease 2

Vegas Vacation

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

Cannonball Run II

Silent Movie

Airport 1975

The Cheap Detective

Filmography

Production

Writing

Creator

It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point

Melville Crump (archive footage)

2023

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

Self (archive footage)

2018

The Grease Story

Coach Calhoun (archive footage)

2017

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

Self

2013

In the Beginning: The Caesar Years

Self

2012

Lunch

Himself

2012

Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World

Self (archive footage)

2009

Pioneers of Primetime

2005

Comic Book: The Movie

Old Army Buddy

2004

Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar

Himself

2003

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)

2002

The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV

Self

2000

The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy

Himself

2000

The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room

Himself

2000

Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: A Salute to the Friars Club

Self

1999

Television: The First Fifty Years

Self (archive footage)

1999

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

Sid Zellman

1998

Vegas Vacation

Mr. Ellis

1997

Caesar's Writers

Self

1996

The Great Mom Swap

Papa Tognetti

1995

Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'

Self

1991

Side by Side

Louis Hammerstein

1988

Wall of Tyranny

Max

1988

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

Self

1987

The Emperor's New Clothes

The Emperor

1987

Christmas Snow

Mr. Snyder

1986

Love Is Never Silent

Mr. Petrakis

1985

Stoogemania

Doctor Fixyer Mindyer

1985

All Star Party for Lucille Ball

Self

1984

Cannonball Run II

Fisherman #2

1984

Over the Brooklyn Bridge

Uncle Benjamin

1984

Found Money

Sam Green

1983

The Boys of Summer

Host

1983

Grease 2

Coach Vince Calhoun

1982

History of the World: Part I

Chief Caveman

1981

The Munsters' Revenge

Dr. Dustin Diablo

1981

Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz

Wizard / Mince Pie U.N. Krust / Narrator (voice)

1980

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

Joe Capone

1980

Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet

King Goochi (voice)

1979

America 2100

MAX (voice)

1979

The Cheap Detective

Ezra Dezire

1978

Grease

Coach Calhoun

1978

Curse of the Black Widow

Lazlo Cozart

1977

Barnaby and Me

Leo Fisk

1977

Fire Sale

Sherman

1977

Flight to Holocaust

George Beam

1977

Silent Movie

Studio Chief

1976

Ann-Margret Smith

Self

1975

Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television

(archive footage)

1975

Airport 1975

Barney

1974

Hamburgers

self

1974

Ten from Your Show of Shows

1973

The Spirit Is Willing

Ben Powell

1967

A Guide for the Married Man

Technical Adviser (at Romanoff's)

1967

The Busy Body

George Norton

1967

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

Melville Crump

1963

Some of Manie's Friends

1959

The All-Star Christmas Show

Self

1958

The Guilt of Janet Ames

Sammy Weaver

1947

Tars and Spars

Chuck Enders

1946