Sid Caesar

Sid Caesar

Birthday: 1922-09-08

Place of Birth: 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.

Movies

Grease
Grease

Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedl...

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History of the World: Part I
History of the World: Part I

An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the Fren...

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The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing ...

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Silent Movie
Silent Movie

Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an id...

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A Guide for the Married Man
A Guide for the Married Man

A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught....

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

A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $...

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Grease 2
Grease 2

It's 1961, two years after the original Grease gang graduated, and there's a new crop of seniors and...

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America 2100
America 2100

Two everyday schlubs are inadvertently frozen for 120 years, awakening to a wacky future run by a ro...

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Airport 1975
Airport 1975

When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardes...

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Fire Sale
Fire Sale

Benny and his wife Ruthie are getting set to drive down to Florida, but Benny needs someone to look ...

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The Spirit Is Willing
The Spirit Is Willing

When Ben and Kate Powell rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve gets blamed fo...

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The Cheap Detective
The Cheap Detective

A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accu...

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The Busy Body
The Busy Body

Sid Caesar is a bumbling gopher to a mob boss who must recover a fortune in cash stowed in the suit ...

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Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World

Documentary on the making of Mel Brooks' classic comedy "History of the World, Part 1."...

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The Guilt of Janet Ames
The Guilt of Janet Ames

A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life du...

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Christmas Snow
Christmas Snow

A shop owner who is being evicted at Christmas rescues her Scrooge-like landlord from an accident....

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All Star Party for Lucille Ball
All Star Party for Lucille Ball

A tribute to Lucille ball, with an humanitarian award for her quest to end juvenile diabetes....

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The Great Mom Swap
The Great Mom Swap

When two girls think the other has it better, they swap places to see who's right!...

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Lunch
Lunch

For the past 40 years, a group of comedy writers and directors has gathered every other Wednesday fo...

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Over the Brooklyn Bridge
Over the Brooklyn Bridge

A put-upon Jewish deli owner in Brooklyn dreams of getting out from underneath the thumb of his domi...

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Side by Side
Side by Side

Three men who have just been forced to retire convince their bank to finance their dream: To produce...

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The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV
The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV

One of the greatest comedians of early television, Sid Caesar hasn't had his work shown in perennial...

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Ten from Your Show of Shows
Ten from Your Show of Shows

Ten comedy sketches compiled from the 1950s TV series, "Your Show of Shows."...

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Some of Manie's Friends
Some of Manie's Friends

A multitude of entertainment's biggest stars come together to celebrate the life of the late Manie S...

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NBC 75th Anniversary Special
NBC 75th Anniversary Special

A celebration of NBC's 75 year history, featuring clips of special moments....

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Hamburgers
Hamburgers

Comedy special starring Charlie Callas, Charles Nelson Reilly, Bobby Vinton, and many other young co...

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Barnaby and Me
Barnaby and Me

Barnaby and Me is a 1978 Australian TV movie about a girl and her talking koala who are pursued by c...

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

Worlds collide in this unconventional essay film, when filmmaker, film historian, and archivist Dani...

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Flight to Holocaust
Flight to Holocaust

A team of troubleshooters is called to a skyscraper where a plane has crashed into the 20th floor an...

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Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks’ early years in the creative beginnings of live tel...

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The Emperor's New Clothes
The Emperor's New Clothes

In Europe several several centuries ago, a group of prisoners about to be executed are freed as part...

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The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

Gomez is a middle-aged man who dreams of buying a gorgeous white suit in a nearby store, but doesn't...

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

A collection of Ceasar's finest comedy moments....

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

Nostalgic history of the Friars Club. Aired on Cinemax Reel Life...

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Found Money
Found Money

Two former bank employees, executive Dick Van Dyke, forced into early retirement by a computer, and ...

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Vegas Vacation
Vegas Vacation

The Griswold family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy ...

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Caesar's Writers
Caesar's Writers

On January 24, 1996, at the Writers Guild Theater in Los Angeles, CA, legendary comic Sid Caesar was...

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Television: The First Fifty Years
Television: The First Fifty Years

Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclus...

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Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story

The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shor...

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Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure
Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure

In search of fun and freedom, a trio of animal friends -- a bold monkey with a temper, a timid, besp...

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Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

At the age of 91, Mel Brooks is unstoppable, with his musical "Young Frankenstein" opening to great ...

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Curse of the Black Widow
Curse of the Black Widow

Tony Franciosa plays a detective who's on the trail of a murderer whose mutilated and predominantly ...

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The Munsters' Revenge
The Munsters' Revenge

The lovable Munster family finds their placid world turned into turmoil by the diabolical Dr. Diablo...

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

With a new twist on an old holiday, Intergalatic Thanksgiving or Please Don't Eat the Planet is a de...

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The Grease Story
The Grease Story

The story behind the classic movie musical. The programme examines the original stage musical in the...

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

A star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World....

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

The Big Daddy of televised comedy sketches, Sid Caesar had millions of Americans holding their sides...

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The Sid Caesar Collection:  Creating the Comedy
The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy

The Big Daddy of televised comedy sketches, Sid Caesar had millions of Americans holding their sides...

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Ann-Margret Smith
Ann-Margret Smith

Book-ending the year 1975 with two big budget TV Specials, Ann -Margret also earned her second Oscar...

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Tars and Spars
Tars and Spars

Howard Young is a coast guardsman who has been on shore duty for three years despite his efforts to ...

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Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz
Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz

Dorothy is carried back to Oz by a green turkey balloon on the final Thanksgiving she is to spend wi...

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Stoogemania
Stoogemania

The film centers on Howard F. Howard, an overweight everyman. Engaged to Beverly, the woman of his d...

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In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years

New interviews with Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, footage from the reunion of Caesar's Writers (1996),...

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Love Is Never Silent
Love Is Never Silent

A young woman struggles with her own need for independence and the obligation she feels for her deaf...

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Cannonball Run II
Cannonball Run II

When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one p...

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Wall of Tyranny
Wall of Tyranny

A U.S. soldier sees the Berlin Wall go up in 1961 and helps a group of East Germans escape to the We...

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

A two hour celebration of Bob Hope's 25 years of television shows that features highlights starting ...

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Comic Book: The Movie
Comic Book: The Movie

Hugh Hefner, Stan Lee, Mark Hamill and Kevin Smith journey into the world of comic book fandom! Docu...

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Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film....

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Pioneers of Primetime
Pioneers of Primetime

An in-depth look at the early days of television and its first stars....

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The All-Star Christmas Show
The All-Star Christmas Show

This 1958 Christmas spectacular was produced by the USO for the entertainment of troops stationed ov...

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The Boys of Summer
The Boys of Summer

A film adaptation of The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn, this documentary, hosted by comedian Sid Caes...

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