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

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Saturday Night Live

The Mike Douglas Show

The Love Boat

Love, American Style

Love, American Style

Mad About You

All Movies (63)

• Remembering Gene Wilder2024 · as Self (archive footage)
• It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point2023 · as Melville Crump (archive footage)
• Mel Brooks: Unwrapped2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Grease Story2017 · as Coach Calhoun (archive footage)
• Mel Brooks: Make a Noise2013 · as Self
• In the Beginning: The Caesar Years2012 · as Self
• Lunch2012 · as Himself
• Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World2009 · as Self (archive footage)
• Pioneers of Primetime2005
• Comic Book: The Movie2004 · as Old Army Buddy
• Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar2003 · as Himself
• Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure2002 · as Jacob (voice)
• NBC 75th Anniversary Special2002 · as Self
• Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story2002 · as Self (uncredited)
• The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV2000 · as Self
• The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room2000 · as Himself
• The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy2000 · as Himself
• Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: A Salute to the Friars Club1999 · as Self
• Television: The First Fifty Years1999 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit1998 · as Sid Zellman
• Vegas Vacation1997 · as Mr. Ellis
• Caesar's Writers1996 · as Self
• The Great Mom Swap1995 · as Papa Tognetti
• Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'1991 · as Self
• Side by Side1988 · as Louis Hammerstein
• Wall of Tyranny1988 · as Max
• Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood1987 · as Self
• The Emperor's New Clothes1987 · as The Emperor
• Christmas Snow1986 · as Mr. Snyder
• Love Is Never Silent1985 · as Mr. Petrakis
• Stoogemania1985 · as Doctor Fixyer Mindyer
• All Star Party for Lucille Ball1984 · as Self
• Cannonball Run II1984 · as Fisherman #2
• Over the Brooklyn Bridge1984 · as Uncle Benjamin
• Found Money1983 · as Sam Green
• The Boys of Summer1983 · as Host
• Grease 21982 · as Coach Vince Calhoun
• History of the World: Part I1981 · as Chief Caveman
• The Munsters' Revenge1981 · as Dr. Dustin Diablo
• Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz1980 · as Wizard / Mince Pie U.N. Krust / Narrator (voice)
• The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu1980 · as Joe Capone
• Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet1979 · as King Goochi (voice)
• America 21001979 · as MAX (voice)
• The Cheap Detective1978 · as Ezra Dezire
• Grease1978 · as Coach Calhoun
• Curse of the Black Widow1977 · as Lazlo Cozart
• Barnaby and Me1977 · as Leo Fisk
• Fire Sale1977 · as Sherman
• Flight to Holocaust1977 · as George Beam
• Silent Movie1976 · as Studio Chief
• Ann-Margret Smith1975 · as Self
• Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television1975 · as (archive footage)
• Airport 19751974 · as Barney
• Hamburgers1974 · as self
• Ten from Your Show of Shows1973
• The Spirit Is Willing1967 · as Ben Powell
• A Guide for the Married Man1967 · as Technical Adviser (at Romanoff's)
• The Busy Body1967 · as George Norton
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World1963 · as Melville Crump
• Some of Manie's Friends1959
• The All-Star Christmas Show1958 · as Self
• The Guilt of Janet Ames1947 · as Sammy Weaver
• Tars and Spars1946 · as Chuck Enders

All TV Shows (44)

• The Jewish Americans2008 · as Self
• Whose Line Is It Anyway?1998 · as Self
• Mad About You1992 · as Uncle Harold
• Love & War1992
• Alice in Wonderland1985 · as Gryphon
• Amazing Stories1985 · as Lou Bundles
• Matt Houston1982
• The Big Show1980 · as Self
• Pink Lady1980 · as Sid Caesar
• Vega$1978
• W.E.B.1978
• The Love Boat1977 · as Michael Harmon
• Good Heavens1976
• Saturday Night Live1975 · as Self - Host
• When Things Were Rotten1975 · as Marquis de la Salle
• Tony Orlando and Dawn1974 · as Self
• Dinah!1974 · as Self
• The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts1973 · as Self
• The Bobby Darin Show1973
• The Julie Andrews Hour1972 · as Self
• The Flip Wilson Show1970 · as Self
• The Don Knotts Show1970 · as Self
• Love, American Style1969 · as John Smith
• Love, American Style1969 · as Bert
• The Dick Cavett Show1968 · as Self - Guest
• Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In1968 · as Self
• The Carol Burnett Show1967 · as Self - Guest
• That Girl1966 · as Marty Nickels
• The Dean Martin Show1965
• The Hollywood Palace1964 · as Self
• The Lucy Show1962 · as Sid Caesar
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Mike Douglas Show1961 · as Self
• Checkmate1960 · as Johnny Wilder
• The Dinah Shore Chevy Show1956 · as Self
• Caesar's Hour1954 · as Self - Host
• General Electric Theater1953 · as Nick Lucifer
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Mr. Petrakis
• The Colgate Comedy Hour1950 · as Self
• Your Show of Shows1950 · as Self - Regular Performer
• What's My Line?1950 · as Self - Mystery Guest
• The Admiral Broadway Revue1949
• The Ed Sullivan Show1948 · as Self