Sylvia Sidney
1910–1999 · American actress
Sylvia Sidney 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 was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams in 1973. She later gained attention for her role as Juno, a case worker in the afterlife, in Tim Burton's 1988 film Beetlejuice, for which she won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Sylvia Sidney, in order
- 1927 Broadway Nights: acted · directed by Joseph C. Boyle
- 1929 Thru Different Eyes: acted · directed by John G. Blystone
- 1931 An American Tragedy: acted · directed by Josef von Sternberg
- 1931 City Streets: acted · directed by Rouben Mamoulian
- 1931 Ladies of the Big House: acted · directed by Marion Gering
- 1931 Street Scene: acted · directed by King Vidor
- 1932 Madame Butterfly: acted · directed by Marion Gering
- 1932 Merrily We Go to Hell: acted · directed by Dorothy Arzner · critics 100%, audiences 63%
- 1932 The Miracle Man: acted · directed by Norman Z. McLeod
- 1933 Jennie Gerhardt: acted · directed by Marion Gering
- 1933 Pick-Up: acted · directed by Marion Gering
- 1934 Behold My Wife!: acted · directed by Mitchell Leisen
- 1934 Good Dame: acted · directed by Marion Gering
- 1934 Thirty-Day Princess: acted · directed by Marion Gering
- 1935 Accent on Youth: acted · directed by Wesley Ruggles
- 1935 Mary Burns, Fugitive: acted · directed by William K. Howard
- 1936 Fury: acted · directed by Fritz Lang and Lesley Selander
- 1936 Sabotage: acted · directed by Alfred Hitchcock · critics 91%, audiences 70% · streaming on HBO Max, Roku Channel, Kanopy
- 1936 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine: acted · directed by Henry Hathaway
- 1937 Dead End: acted · directed by William Wyler
- 1937 You Only Live Once: acted · directed by Fritz Lang
- 1938 You and Me: acted · directed by Fritz Lang
- 1939 ...One Third of a Nation...: acted · directed by Dudley Murphy
- 1941 The Wagons Roll at Night: acted · directed by Ray Enright
- 1945 Blood on the Sun: acted · directed by Frank Lloyd
- 1946 Mr. Ace: acted · directed by Edwin L. Marin
- 1946 The Searching Wind: acted · directed by William Dieterle
- 1947 Love from a Stranger: acted · directed by Richard Whorf
- 1952 Les Misérables: acted · directed by Lewis Milestone · audiences 43%
- 1955 Violent Saturday: acted · directed by Richard Fleischer · critics 80%, audiences 68% · streaming on Criterion Channel
- 1956 Behind the High Wall: acted · directed by Abner Biberman
- 1973 Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams: acted · directed by Gilbert Cates · audiences 24%
- 1976 God Told Me To: acted · directed by Larry Cohen
- 1976 Raid on Entebbe (TV movie): acted · directed by Irvin Kershner
- 1977 I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: acted · directed by Anthony Page
- 1978 Damien: Omen II: acted · directed by Don Taylor
- 1980 The Shadow Box (TV movie): acted · directed by Paul Newman
- 1982 Hammett: acted · directed by Wim Wenders · critics 75%, audiences 61% · streaming on YouTube (free), Plex, Fawesome
- 1983 Copkiller: acted · directed by Roberto Faenza
- 1985 An Early Frost (TV movie): acted · directed by John Erman
- 1985 Finnegan Begin Again (TV movie): acted · directed by Joan Micklin Silver
- 1988 Beetlejuice: acted · directed by Tim Burton
- 1990 Andre's Mother (TV movie): acted · directed by Deborah Reinisch
- 1992 Used People: acted · directed by Beeban Kidron
- 1996 Mars Attacks!: acted · directed by Tim Burton · critics 57%, audiences 53% · streaming on Philo, Roku Channel, Kanopy
- 1998 Fantasy Island (TV series): acted · directed by David Hugh Jones and Deran Sarafian