Personal Info
Birth date
1916-04-21 (109 Years)
Day of death
1985-10-02
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Also known as
Sid Clute
Sidney Klute
Sidney Clute
Biography
Sidney Richard Clute (April 21, 1916 – October 2, 1985) was an American film and television actor. He was notable for playing Detective Paul La Guardia in 57 episodes of the American police procedural drama Cagney & Lacey (1982–85). He also played Detective Simms in 10 episodes of McCloud. Clute guest-starred in numerous television programs including Hawaii Five-O, Emergency!, The Rockford Files, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, All in the Family, Adam-12 and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. He also appeared in a few episodes of Lou Grant, Wagon Train, Hogan's Heroes, My Three Sons and Cannon. Clute died on October 2, 1985, of cancer at the St. George Hospital in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 69.
Filmography
Perry Mason
7.708
Overview:
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.Bewitched
7.9
Overview:
Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.The Fugitive
7.2
Overview:
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.Ironside
6.8
Overview:
When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.Wagon Train
6.586
Overview:
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.Hogan's Heroes
7.528
Overview:
Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners running a Special Operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the commandant of the camp, and John Banner was the inept sergeant-of-the-guard, Hans Schultz. The series was popular during its six-season run. In 2013, creators Bernard Fein through his estate and Albert S. Ruddy acquired the sequel and other separate rights to Hogan's Heroes from Mark Cuban through arbitration and a movie based on the show has been planned.The Six Million Dollar Man
7.263
Overview:
Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent, employed by the OSI, under the command of Oscar Goldman and supervised by the scientist who created his cybernetics, Rudy Wells. Steve uses the superior strength and speed provided by his bionic arm and legs, and the enhanced vision provided by his artificial eye, to fight enemy agents, aliens, mad scientists, and a wide variety of other villains.Hawaii Five-O
7.1
Overview:
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".Adam-12
7
Overview:
Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12.Dragnet
6.4
Overview:
Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.The Beverly Hillbillies
6.9
Overview:
Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.I Dream of Jeannie
7.8
Overview:
While on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency landing that will forever change his life. On a deserted South Pacific island, Captain Nelson happens upon a bottle containing a beautiful two-thousand-year-old female genie named Jeannie. Rescuing her from the bottle nets Tony the requisite three wishes, and then some, when Jeannie pledges total devotion to her new "master".Petticoat Junction
5.705
Overview:
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.Cagney & Lacey
6.97
Overview:
Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of all time.McCloud
7.1
Overview:
Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a special investigator.My Three Sons
6.5
Overview:
A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.Gunsmoke
6.6
Overview:
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.The Odd Couple
7.8
Overview:
Felix and Oscar are two divorced men. Felix is neat and tidy while Oscar is sloppy and casual. They share a Manhattan apartment, and their different lifestyles inevitably lead to conflicts.Wanted: Dead or Alive
6.8
Overview:
Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–59 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television. The series launched McQueen into becoming the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen.Kojak
7.02
Overview:
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.The Mary Tyler Moore Show
7.5
Overview:
30-year-old single Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis to start a new life after a romantic break-up. There she reacquaints with Phyllis who rents her a room, and meets her upstairs neighbor and new best friend Rhoda. Mary unexpectedly lands a job as associate producer at the TV station WJM, where she works alongside her bristly boss, Lou; the comical newswriter, Murray; and the newscast's often-incompetent anchor, Ted.Executive Action
6.4
Overview:
Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.That Girl
6.125
Overview:
That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the title character Ann Marie, an aspiring actress, who moves from her hometown of Brewster, New York to try to make it big in New York City. Ann has to take a number of offbeat "temp" jobs to support herself in between her various auditions and bit parts. Ted Bessell played her boyfriend Donald Hollinger, a writer for Newsview Magazine; Lew Parker and Rosemary DeCamp played Lew Marie and Helen Marie, her concerned parents. Bernie Kopell, Ruth Buzzi and Reva Rose played Ann and Donald's friends. That Girl was developed by writers Bill Persky and Sam Denoff, who had served as head writers on The Dick Van Dyke Show earlier in the 1960s.Night Gallery
7.8
Overview:
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.Marcus Welby, M.D.
6.5
Overview:
Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner and James Brolin as the younger doctor he often worked with, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969.Battlestar Galactica
7.1
Overview:
When the 12 Colonies of Man are wiped out by a cybernetic race called the Cylons, Commander Adama and the crew of the battlestar Galactica lead a ragtag fleet of human survivors in search of a "mythical planet" called Earth.The Best Years of Our Lives
7.8
Overview:
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.The Rack
6.6
Overview:
Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the U.S. after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp, he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When he comes back he is charged for collaboration with the enemy. Where does loyalty end in a prison camp, when the camp is a living hell?Acting
1983The Sting II as Ticket Clerk
1983Inspector Perez as Officer
1982Cagney & Lacey (57 Episodes) as Paul La Guardia
1981Terror Among Us as Collins
1980Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story as Miller
1980Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (2 Episodes) as Miller
1980Fugitive Family as Sam Todd
1979...And Justice for All as Polic
1978Spider-Man Strikes Back as Inspector DeCarlo
1978The Big Fix as Mr. Johnson
1978Battlestar Galactica (1 Episode) as Stone
1978F.I.S.T. as Company Negotiator
1978The Amazing Spider-Man (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1977Fish (1 Episode) as Unknown
1977Code R (1 Episode) as Dr. Warner
1976Helter Skelter as Reporter
1975Mitchell as Rudy Moran
1975Breakout as Henderson
1975The Bionic Woman as Unknown
1974Thursday's Game as Camp Director
1974The Legend of Hillbilly John as Charles
1974The Six Million Dollar Man (1 Episode) as Mr. Schwartz
1974The Death Squad as Driver
1973Executive Action as Depository Clerk
1973Kojak (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Det. Cahan, Barney Sullivan, Det. Jackson Kilpatrick
1973Walking Tall as Sheldon Levine
1972The Outside Man as Motel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
1971Terror in the Sky as Mr. Swenson
1970Night Gallery (1 Episode) as David Garrick (segment "Make Me Laugh")
1970The Odd Couple (1 Episode) as Barney
1970The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1 Episode) as Everett Edwards
1970McCloud (1 Episode) as Simms
1969Marcus Welby, M.D. (1 Episode) as Hanson
1969Sam Whiskey as Clem
1968I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! as Mechanic
1968Here's Lucy (1 Episode) as Lieutenant Turner
1968Adam-12 (1 Episode) as Farrel
1968Hawaii Five-O (1 Episode) as Bradford
1967The Second Hundred Years (1 Episode) as Police Sergeant
1967Ironside (1 Episode) as Leone
1967Dragnet (1 Episode) as Sam Golden
1966That Girl (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1966The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! as Townsman (uncredited)
1965I Dream of Jeannie (1 Episode) as Mike
1965Hogan's Heroes (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Sparrow, Max, Kurt
1964Bewitched (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1964Wendy and Me (1 Episode) as Unknown
1963Cry of Battle as Col. Ryker
1963Petticoat Junction (1 Episode) as Waiter
1963The Fugitive (1, 1 Episode) as Bartender, Joe - Newmark Aide
1962The Beverly Hillbillies (1 Episode) as Producer #2
1961Ben Casey (1 Episode) as Sam
1960My Three Sons (5 Episodes) as Unknown
1960Five Branded Women as Milan
1959The Wild and the Innocent as Political Leader (uncredited)
1958Wanted: Dead or Alive (1 Episode) as Bartender (uncredited)
1957Perry Mason (1 Episode) as Taxi Driver
1957Wagon Train (1, 1 Episode) as Winnybill, Doc Simpson
19565 Steps to Danger as Mechanic (uncredited)
1956The Rack as Hotel Clerk
1956Mohawk as Settler (uncredited)
1955Gunsmoke (1 Episode) as Spencer
1953The Big Heat as Retreat Bartender (uncredited)
1952The Red Ball Express as Military Police Captain (uncredited)
1951Dragnet (1 Episode) as Unknown
1946The Best Years of Our Lives as Drugstore Clerk (uncredited)