Sid Caesar
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 8 September 1922 · Yonkers, New York, USA
- Died
- 12 February 2014
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
Acting 63
- 2024Remembering Gene Wilder as Self (archive footage)
- 2023It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point as Melville Crump (archive footage)
- 2018Mel Brooks: Unwrapped as Self (archive footage)
- 2017The Grease Story as Coach Calhoun (archive footage)
- 2013Mel Brooks: Make a Noise as Self
- 2012In the Beginning: The Caesar Years as Self
- 2012Lunch as Himself
- 2009Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World as Self (archive footage)
- 2005Pioneers of Primetime
- 2004Comic Book: The Movie as Old Army Buddy
- 2003Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar as Himself
- 2002Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure as Jacob (voice)
- 2002NBC 75th Anniversary Special as Self
- 2002Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story as Self (uncredited)
- 2000The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room as Himself
- 2000The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV as Self
- 2000The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy as Himself
- 1999Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: A Salute to the Friars Club as Self
- 1999Television: The First Fifty Years as Self (archive footage)
- 1998The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit as Sid Zellman
- 1997Vegas Vacation as Mr. Ellis
- 1996Caesar's Writers as Self
- 1995The Great Mom Swap as Papa Tognetti
- 1991Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' as Self
- 1988Side by Side as Louis Hammerstein
- 1988Wall of Tyranny as Max
- 1987Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self
- 1987The Emperor's New Clothes as The Emperor
- 1986Christmas Snow as Mr. Snyder
- 1985Love Is Never Silent as Mr. Petrakis
- 1985Stoogemania as Doctor Fixyer Mindyer
- 1984All Star Party for Lucille Ball as Self
- 1984Cannonball Run II as Fisherman #2
- 1984Over the Brooklyn Bridge as Uncle Benjamin
- 1983Found Money as Sam Green
- 1983The Boys of Summer as Host
- 1982Grease 2 as Coach Vince Calhoun
- 1981History of the World: Part I as Chief Caveman
- 1981The Munsters' Revenge as Dr. Dustin Diablo
- 1980Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz as Wizard / Mince Pie U.N. Krust / Narrator (voice)
- 1980The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu as Joe Capone
- 1979Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet as King Goochi (voice)
- 1979America 2100 as MAX (voice)
- 1978The Cheap Detective as Ezra Dezire
- 1978Grease as Coach Calhoun
- 1977Curse of the Black Widow as Lazlo Cozart
- 1977Barnaby and Me as Leo Fisk
- 1977Fire Sale as Sherman
- 1977Flight to Holocaust as George Beam
- 1976Silent Movie as Studio Chief
- 1975Ann-Margret Smith as Self
- 1975Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television as (archive footage)
- 1974Airport 1975 as Barney
- 1974Hamburgers as self
- 1973Ten from Your Show of Shows
- 1967The Spirit Is Willing as Ben Powell
- 1967A Guide for the Married Man as Technical Adviser
- 1967The Busy Body as George Norton
- 1963It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as Melville Crump
- 1959Some of Manie's Friends
- 1958The All-Star Christmas Show as Self
- 1947The Guilt of Janet Ames as Sammy Weaver
- 1946Tars and Spars as Chuck Enders
crew 2
- 2011Woody Allen: A Documentary · thanks
- 1995The 100 Funniest Moments of the 20th Century: The Unexpected · thanks
Production 1
- 2000The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV · executive in charge of production