Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

103

Gender

Male

Birthday

1922-09-08

Deathday

2014-02-12 (91 years old)

Place of Birth

Yonkers, New York, USA

Also Known As

Isaac Sidney Caesar

Sid Caesar

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

7.4%

Grease

Jul 7, 1978

6.8%

History of the World: Part I

Jun 12, 1981

5.2%

Grease 2

Jun 11, 1982

6.0%

Vegas Vacation

Feb 13, 1997

7.0%

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Nov 7, 1963

6.9%

Saturday Night Live

Oct 11, 1975

7.8%

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Aug 5, 1998

5.4%

Cannonball Run II

Jun 29, 1984

6.5%

Silent Movie

Jun 17, 1976

5.7%

Airport 1975

Oct 18, 1974

6.7%

Mad About You

Sep 23, 1992

7.4%

Amazing Stories

Sep 29, 1985

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Acting

2023

It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point as Melville Crump (archive footage)

2018

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped as Self (archive footage)

2017

The Grease Story as Coach Calhoun (archive footage)

2013

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise as Self

2012		In the Beginning: The Caesar Years as Self
2012		Lunch as Himself

2009

Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World as Self (archive footage)

2008

The Jewish Americans as Self

2005

Pioneers of Primetime

2004

Comic Book: The Movie as Old Army Buddy

2003

Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar as Himself

2002		Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure as Jacob (voice)
2002		NBC 75th Anniversary Special as Self
2002		Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story as Self (uncredited)

2000		The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV as Self
2000		The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy as Himself
2000		The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room as Himself

1999		Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: A Salute to the Friars Club as Self
1999		Television: The First Fifty Years as Self (archive footage)

1998		Whose Line Is It Anyway? as Self
1998		The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit as Sid Zellman

1997

Vegas Vacation as Mr Ellis

1996

Caesar's Writers as Self

1995

The Great Mom Swap as Papa Tognetti

1992		Mad About You as Uncle Harold
1992		Love & War

1991

Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' as Self

1988		Side by Side as Louis Hammerstein
1988		Wall of Tyranny as Max

1987		Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self
1987		The Emperor's New Clothes as The Emperor

1986		Christmas Snow as Mr. Snyder
1986		Stoogemania as Doctor Fixyer Mindyer

1985		Alice in Wonderland as Gryphon
1985		Love Is Never Silent as Mr. Petrakis
1985		Amazing Stories as Lou Bundles

1984		All Star Party for Lucille Ball as Self
1984		Cannonball Run II as Fisherman #2
1984		Over the Brooklyn Bridge as Uncle Benjamin

1983

Found Money as Sam Green

1982		Matt Houston
1982		Grease 2 as Coach Vince Calhoun

1981		History of the World: Part I as Chief Caveman
1981		The Munsters' Revenge as Dr. Dustin Diablo

1980		Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz as Wizard / Mince Pie U.N. Krust / Narrator (voice)
1980		The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu as Joe Capone
1980		The Big Show as Self
1980		Pink Lady as Sid Caesar

1979		Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet as King Goochi (voice)
1979		America 2100 as MAX (voice)

1978		Vega$
1978		W.E.B.
1978		Grease as Coach Calhoun
1978		The Cheap Detective as Ezra Dezire

1977		The Love Boat as Michael Harmon
1977		Curse of the Black Widow as Lazlo Cozart
1977		Barnaby and Me as Leo Fisk
1977		Fire Sale as Sherman
1977		Flight to Holocaust as George Beam

1976		Silent Movie as Studio Chief
1976		Good Heavens

1975		Ann-Margret Smith as Himself
1975		Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television as (archive footage)
1975		Saturday Night Live as Self - Host

1974		Tony Orlando and Dawn as Self
1974		Dinah! as Self
1974		Airport 1975 as Barney
1974		Hamburgers as self

1973		The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts as Self
1973		Ten from Your Show of Shows
1973		The Bobby Darin Show

1972

The Julie Andrews Hour as Self

1970		The Flip Wilson Show as Self
1970		The Don Knotts Show as Self

1969		Love, American Style as John Smith
1969		Love, American Style as Bert

1968		The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1968		Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self

1967		The Carol Burnett Show as Self - Guest
1967		The Spirit Is Willing as Ben Powell
1967		A Guide for the Married Man as Technical Adviser (at Romanoff's)
1967		The Busy Body as George Norton