Sid Caesar

Acting · Born 1922-09-08 · Yonkers, New York, USA

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

• Remembering Gene Wilder (2024)
• It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point (2023)
• Mel Brooks: Unwrapped (2018)
• The Grease Story (2017)
• Mel Brooks: Make a Noise (2013)
• Lunch (2012)
• In the Beginning: The Caesar Years (2012)
• Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World (2009)
• Pioneers of Primetime (2005)
• Comic Book: The Movie (2004)
• Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar (2003)
• NBC 75th Anniversary Special (2002)
• Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story (2002)
• The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV (2000)
• The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy (2000)
• The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room (2000)
• Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: A Salute to the Friars Club (1999)
• Television: The First Fifty Years (1999)
• The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998)
• Vegas Vacation (1997)
• Caesar's Writers (1996)
• The Great Mom Swap (1995)
• Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' (1991)
• Side by Side (1988)