Basic Information About Sid Caesar
Category | Celebrities βΊ Comedians |
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Professions | Comedian, Actor, Writer, Musician, Saxophonist, Composer, Author, Television producer |
Net worth | $10,000,000 |
Date of birth | 1922-09-08 |
Place of birth | Yonkers |
Date of death | 2014-02-12 (aged 91) |
Nationality | United States of America |
Curiosities and Trademarks | Comedy acts involving ordinary people in unrealistic situations |
Spouse | Florence Caesar - (17 JulyΒ 1943 - 3 MarchΒ 2010)Β (her death)Β (3 children) |
Gender | Male |
Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.87 m) |
Social Media | βοΈ Wikipedia βοΈ IMDb |
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What Movie Awards did Sid Caesar win?
Oscar |
Golden Globe |
Golder Raspberry |
BAFTA |
Other |
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Sid Caesar awards
Award Name | State | Movie / Series Name | Year |
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Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Technical Direction and Electronic Camerawork for a Series | Winner | Saturday Night Live | 1983 |
Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series | Nominee | Love & War | 1995 |
Sid Caesar roles
Movie / Series | Role |
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It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World | Melville Crump |
Grease | Coach Calhoun |
Grease 2 | Coach Calhoun |
Vegas Vacation | Old Guy |
History of the World: Part I | Chief Caveman |
Airport 1975 | Barney |
Cannonball Run II | Fisherman #2 |
Silent Movie | Studio Chief |
The Lucy Show | Self 1 episode, 1968 |
Sesame Street | Self / ... 3 episodes, 1985-1988 |
That Girl | Marty Nickels 1 episode, 1968 |
Saturday Night Live | Self - Host 1 episode, 1983 |
Life with Louie | Marty Kazoo 1 episode, 1997 |
Matt Houston | Prince Sergei Polansky 1 episode, 1982 |
Love, American Style | Bert (segment "Love and the Bowling Ball") / ... 2 episodes, 1969-1971 |
The Love Boat | Bert Multon / ... 2 episodes, 1978-1984 |
Love & War | Mr. Stein 1 episode, 1995 |
The Carol Burnett Show | Self 4 episodes, 1967-1968 |
Amazing Stories | Lou Bundles 1 episode, 1985 |
Mad About You | Uncle Harold 1 episode, 1997 |
Whose Line Is It Anyway? | Self 1 episode, 2001 |
The Dick Cavett Show | Self 1 episode, 1971 |
Laugh-In | Guest Performer 1 episode, 1969 |
Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest 1 episode, 1993 |
Sid Caesar's Movie/Shows Salary
Movie / Series | Salary |
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Your Show of ShowsΒ (1950) | $5,000 /week |
Sid Caesar's Quotes
- After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove.
- The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.
- The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
- When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon. And people looked at me and said, "Gee, that's like Uncle David", or "That's like a friend of mine.". And they related through that. I didn't make fun of them. I made fun of me.
Interesting Facts about Sid Caesar
- Studied saxophone at the Julliard School of Music before becoming an actor.
- Voted the United States' Best Comedian by Motion Picture Daily's TV poll in 1951 and 1952.
- Also won Best Comedy Team (with Imogene Coca) in 1953.
- Received the Sylvania Award in 1958 for his work in television.
- Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 84-86. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
- His children are Michele ("Shelly"), Rick (born February 18, 1952) and Karen (born in 1956).
- His son Rick Caesar attended Yale University.
- Was nominated for Broadway's 1963 Tony Award as Best Actor (Musical) for "Little Me".
- Best remembered on Your Show of Shows (1950) and the movies Grease (1978) and Grease 2 (1982).
- He was assigned as a musician in the Coast Guard, taking part in the service show "Tars and Spars", where producer Max Liebman overheard him improvising comedy routines among the band members, and switched him over to comedy. Sid later made his film debut in the adaptation of his stage hit, Tars and Spars (1946).
- He gave up alcohol "cold turkey". His autobiography, "Where Have I Been", published in 1983 and his second book, "Caesar's Hours", both chronicle his struggle to overcome alcoholism and barbiturates.
- In his book "Caesar's Hours", he describes the essence of his comedy as "working both sides of the street", the deliberate blending of comedy and pathos. His idols were Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton and W.C. Fields.
- Caesar's appearance in his first series The Admiral Broadway Revue (1949) with Imogene Coca was a huge hit with television audiences. Simultaneously broadcast on NBC and the Dumont network, its sponsor, Admiral Corporation, an appliance company, could not keep up with the demand for its new television sets, so the show was canceled on account of its runaway success.
- Made his Broadway debut performing in the 1948 revue "Make Mine Manhattan", which featured "The Five Dollar Date", one of Sid's first original pieces in which he sang, acted, double-talked, pantomimed and wrote the music.
- Has played at the Vacationland Hotel in Swan Lake in the Catskills during his salad days. There, under the tutelage of Don Appel, the resort's social director, Caesar played in the band and learned to perform comedy, doing three shows a week.
- Arrived in New York City penniless and tried to join the musician's union (later he audited classes at the famed Juilliard School of Music).
- At age 14 he first went to the Catskills as a saxophonist with Mike Cifficello's Swingtime Six and would also occasionally perform in sketches.
- Despite his apparent fluency in many languages, in reality he only spoke English and Yiddish.
- He was the son of Jewish immigrants, Ida (nΓ©e Raphael), from Russia, and Max Caesar, from Poland. The two ran a 24-hour luncheonette. Sid would help his parents by waiting on tables, and it was during this time that he learned to mimic many of the accents he would use throughout his long career.
- Awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Blvd. on February 8, 1960.
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