
Sylvia Sidney
Sylvia Sidney (born Sophia Kosow, August 8, 1910 – July 1, 1999) 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 later gained attention for her role as Juno, a case worker in the afterlife, in Tim Burton's film Beetlejuice, for which she won a Saturn Award as Best Supporting Actress. She also was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973).
110 acting credits
Acting · 110

The Mike Douglas Show
1961

The Love Boat
1977

Diagnosis: Murder
1993

Golden Globe Awards
1944

Magnum, P.I.
1980

The Equalizer
1985

The Philco Television Playhouse
1948

Naked City
1958

My Three Sons
1960

Climax!
1954

Route 66
1960

Starsky & Hutch
1975

The Defenders
1961

thirtysomething
1987

Dear John
1988

WKRP in Cincinnati
1978

Eight Is Enough
1977

Playhouse 90
1956

The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957

The Ford Television Theatre
1952

Kraft Television Theatre
1947

Tales of Tomorrow
1951

Beetlejuice
1988
Lux Video Theatre
1950

The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959

American Playhouse
1982

Mars Attacks!
1996

Fantasy Island
1998

Kaz
1978

Supertrain
1979
Playwrights '56
1955

General Electric Theater
1953

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951

Damien - Omen II
1978
Cameo Theatre
1950

Night of 100 Stars
1982
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
Kraft Television Theatre
1953

Fury
1936

Special for Women
1960

Sabotage
1937

Dead End
1937

Street Scene
1931

Raid on Entebbe
1976

Night of 100 Stars III
1990

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
1977

Snowbeast
1977

Used People
1992

An Early Frost
1985

You and Me
1938

You Only Live Once
1937

Blood on the Sun
1945

Les Miserables
1952

F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980

Ladies of the Big House
1931

The Wagons Roll at Night
1941

Copkiller
1983

God Told Me To
1976

Hammett
1982

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936

Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984

Violent Saturday
1955

Winner Take All
1975

Merrily We Go to Hell
1932

Death at Love House
1976

City Streets
1931
The Polly Bergen Show
1957

One Third of a Nation
1939

Behind the High Wall
1956

Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
1971

Siege
1978

Confessions of a Co-Ed
1931

Come Along with Me
1982

A Small Killing
1981

Having It All
1982

The Searching Wind
1946

No Time at All
1958

The Helen Morgan Story
1957

Behold My Wife!
1934

The Secret Night Caller
1975

Breakdowns of 1941
1941

Pick-up
1933

The Witching of Ben Wagner
1987

Pals
1987

Make Me a Star
1932

Madame Butterfly
1932

Broadway Nights
1927

Man on the Ledge
1955

Good Dame
1934

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
1973

Thirty Day Princess
1934

Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935

Five Minutes from the Station
1930

Finnegan Begin Again
1985

The Shadow Box
1980

Love from a Stranger
1947

Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
1949

An American Tragedy
1931

Mr. Ace
1946

Accent on Youth
1935

The Gossip Columnist
1980

The Brass Ring
1983

The House That Shadows Built
1931

Andre's Mother
1990

Thru Different Eyes
1929

The Miracle Man
1932

The Sorrows of Satan
1926

Jennie Gerhardt
1933