
Sid Caesar
Department: Acting
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

Grease
1978

History of the World: Part I
1981

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
1980

Silent Movie
1976

A Guide for the Married Man
1967

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963

Grease 2
1982

America 2100
1979

Airport 1975
1974

Fire Sale
1977

The Spirit Is Willing
1967

The Cheap Detective
1978

The Busy Body
1967

Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
2009

The Guilt of Janet Ames
1947

Christmas Snow
1986

All Star Party for Lucille Ball
1984

The Great Mom Swap
1995

Lunch
2012

Over the Brooklyn Bridge
1984

Side by Side
1988

The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV
2000

Ten from Your Show of Shows
1973

Some of Manie's Friends
1959

NBC 75th Anniversary Special
2002

Hamburgers
1974

Barnaby and Me
1977

It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point
2023

Flight to Holocaust
1977

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
2013

The Emperor's New Clothes
1987

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
1998

Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
2003

Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: A Salute to the Friars Club
1999

Found Money
1983

Vegas Vacation
1997

Caesar's Writers
1996

Television: The First Fifty Years
1999

Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
2002

Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure
2002

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018

Curse of the Black Widow
1977

The Munsters' Revenge
1981

Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet
1979

The Grease Story
2017

Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
1991

The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room
2000

The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy
2000

Ann-Margret Smith
1975

Tars and Spars
1946

Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz
1980

Stoogemania
1985

In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
2012

Love Is Never Silent
1985

Cannonball Run II
1984

Wall of Tyranny
1988

Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television
1975

Comic Book: The Movie
2004

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987

Pioneers of Primetime
2005

The All-Star Christmas Show
1958

The Boys of Summer
1983

Amazing Stories
1985

The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950

The Lucy Show
1962

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948

General Electric Theater
1953

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

Love & War
1992

Vega$
1978

The Hollywood Palace
1964

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968

The Don Knotts Show
1970

The Big Show
1980

Your Show of Shows
1950

Matt Houston
1982

Pink Lady
1980

The Dean Martin Show
1965

The Flip Wilson Show
1970

The Admiral Broadway Revue
1949

Good Heavens
1976

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956

W.E.B.
1978

Alice in Wonderland
1985

Tony Orlando and Dawn
1974

Saturday Night Live
1975

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1973

Caesar's Hour
1954

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

Checkmate
1960

The Julie Andrews Hour
1972

The Carol Burnett Show
1967

The Love Boat
1977

The Mike Douglas Show
1961

What's My Line?
1950

The Dick Cavett Show
1968

The Jewish Americans
2008

Mad About You
1992

Whose Line Is It Anyway?
1998

Dinah!
1974

Love, American Style
1969

Love, American Style
1969

The Bobby Darin Show
1973

When Things Were Rotten
1975

That Girl
1966

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962