Personal Info
Birth date
1922-09-08 (102 Years)
Day of death
2014-02-12
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
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.
Filmography
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
Overview:
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.4
Overview:
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.The Carol Burnett Show
7.7
Overview:
The Carol Burnett Show is an American variety/sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner, and Tim Conway. It originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 278 episodes and originated from CBS Television City's Studio 33. The series won 25 prime time Emmy Awards, was ranked No. 16 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time in 2002 and in 2007 was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All Time."Whose Line Is It Anyway?
7.809
Overview:
The show where everything's made up and the points don't matter. Not a talk show, not a sitcom, not a game show, Whose Line Is It Anyway? is a completely unique concept to network television. Four talented actors perform completely unrehearsed skits and games in front of a studio audience. Host Drew Carey sets the scene, with contributions from the audience, but the actors rely completely on their quick wit and improvisational skills. It's genuinely improvised, so anything can happen - and often does.The Dick Cavett Show
6.7
Overview:
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
Overview:
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.Love, American Style
6.056
Overview:
An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.What's My Line?
6.9
Overview:
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.Saturday Night Live
7
Overview:
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.Mad About You
6.7
Overview:
Young, urban newlyweds Paul and Jamie Buchman try to sustain their marital bliss while sidestepping the hurdles of love in the '90s.Amazing Stories
7.441
Overview:
A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.Your Show of Shows
6.333
Overview:
Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United States on NBC, from February 25, 1950, until June 5, 1954, featuring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Other featured performers were Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Bill Hayes, Judy Johnson, The Hamilton Trio and the soprano Marguerite Piazza. José Ferrer made several guest appearances on the series. The series was telecast from the now-demolished International Theatre at 5 Columbus Circle and the Century Theater, now demolished, in New York. During 2002, Your Show of Shows was ranked #30 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.The Love Boat
6.3
Overview:
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.The Colgate Comedy Hour
6.8
Overview:
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
6
Overview:
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
5.4
Overview:
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts is a NBC television special show hosted by entertainer Dean Martin from 1974 to 1984. For a series of 54 specials and shows, Martin would periodically "roast" a celebrity. These roasts were patterned after the roasts held at the New York Friars' Club in New York City. The format would have the celebrity guest seated at a banquet table, and one by one the guest of honor was affectionately chided or insulted about his career by his fellow celebrity friends. In 1973, The Dean Martin Show was declining in popularity. The final season of his variety show would be retooled into one of celebrity roasts, requiring less of Martin's involvement. For the 1973–1974 season, a new feature called “Man of the Week Celebrity Roast" was added to try to pick up the ratings. The roasts seemed to be popular among television audiences and are often marketed in post-issues as part of the official Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts and not The Dean Martin Show. After The Dean Martin Show was cancelled in 1974, NBC drew up a contract with Martin to do several specials and do more roast specials. Starting with Bob Hope in 1974, the roast was taped in California and turned out to be a hit, leading to many other roasts to follow.The Lucy Show
7
Overview:
The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series' final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.The Dean Martin Show
7.316
Overview:
The Dean Martin Show, also known as The Dean Martin Variety Show, is a TV variety-comedy series that ran from 1965 to 1974 for 264 episodes. It was broadcast by NBC and hosted by entertainer Dean Martin. The theme song to the series was his 1964 hit "Everybody Loves Somebody."Vega$
7
Overview:
Vega$ is an American detective television drama series that aired on ABC between 1978 and 1981. It was produced by Aaron Spelling. The series was filmed in its entirety in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is believed to be the first television series produced entirely in Las Vegas. The show stars Robert Urich as private detective Dan Tanna, who drove around the streets of Las Vegas in a red 1957 Ford Thunderbird solving crimes and making Las Vegas a better place for residents and tourists alike.Tony Orlando and Dawn
3.5
Overview:
CBS gave the group a television variety show (entitled Tony Orlando and Dawn) from the summer of 1974, after The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour ended its run, until December 1976. The show was in the same vein as its predecessor (with sketches featuring sarcastic back-and-forth banter between Orlando, Hopkins and Vincent, similar to the sarcastic dialogue between Sonny and Cher) and became a Top 20 hit. They are most famous for "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" & "Knock Three Times"!Matt Houston
6.2
Overview:
Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by Lawrence Gordon, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling.Dinah!
6.667
Overview:
Dinah's show premiered 9 September 1974 and continued through to 4 September 1981. She started out the 70's with Dinah's Place which usually featured one guest and was more of a home oriented show about cooking, crafts and occasionally music. This format lasted until May of 1974. When the show came back in October of 1974 the format had changed drastically to a variety talk show which was called Dinah. and went on until 1981. This show was also known as "Dinah and Friends" during the summer of 1976.Love & War
6.2
Overview:
A woman running a bar in New York City while trying to maintain a romance with an egotistical opinion columnist.That Girl
6.2
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.The Hollywood Palace
4.5
Overview:
The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. Originally titled The Saturday Night Hollywood Palace, it began as a mid-season replacement for The Jerry Lewis Show, another variety show which had lasted only three months. It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse on Vine Street, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood. A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch was cast during the first season as the "Billboard Girl", who placed the names of the acts on a placard.The Flip Wilson Show
4.8
Overview:
The Flip Wilson Show is an hour long variety show that aired in the U.S. on NBC from September 17, 1970 to June 27, 1974. The show starred American comedian Flip Wilson; the program was one of the first American television programs starring a black person in the title role to become highly successful with a white audience. Specifically, it was the first successful network variety series starring an African American. During its first two seasons, its Nielsen ratings made it the nation's second most watched show. The show consisted of many skits over an hour. It also broke new ground in American television by using a 'Theatre-in-the-Round' stage format, with the audience seated on all sides of a circular performance area. Wilson was most famous for creating the role of Geraldine Jones, a sassy, modern woman who had a boyfriend named Killer. Flip also created the role of Reverend Leroy, who was the minister of the Church of What's Happening Now!. New parishioners were wary of coming to the church as it was hinted that Reverend Leroy was a con artist. Wilson popularized such catchphrases as "What you see is what you get", and "The devil made me do it!".Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
6.5
Overview:
An American sketch comedy television program hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.Good Heavens
5.5
Overview:
Good Heavens was an ABC comedy anthology series produced by Columbia Pictures Television that aired between February 29 to June 26, 1976. It ranked #17 in the Nielsen ratings during the 1975-76 television season. The main character was Mr. Angel, who was an Emissary of Heaven that came down to Earth to grant wishes to those who had performed a good deed. Episodes featured actors such as Don Ameche, Susan Dey, Sandy Duncan, Pat Harrington Jr., Florence Henderson, Alex Karras, Penny Marshall, Hugh O'Brian, Loretta Swit, Brenda Vaccaro, and Fred Willard.The Don Knotts Show
NYR
Overview:
The Don Knotts Show was a variety program aired by NBC as part of its 1970-71 lineup. Long relegated to the role of sidekick, which he had portrayed for many years in several television series and films, Don Knotts was the headliner here. Each week, he and his guests put on standard TV variety fare of the era. Two recurring features were a skit about the effort involved in putting a weekly television series on the air, much in the spirit of The Jack Benny Show, and The Front Porch, in which Don and a guest would sit in rocking chairs and quietly discuss their philosophies of life. Notable regulars in his cast included Elaine Joyce and Gary Burghoff, who had previously portrayed "Radar O'Reilly" in the film version of M*A*S*H and was about to achieve his greatest fame in reprising that role for the television version of it.Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Overview:
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.Acting
2023It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point as Melville Crump (archive footage)
2018Mel Brooks: Unwrapped as Self (archive footage)
2017The Grease Story as Coach Calhoun (archive footage)
2013Mel Brooks: Make a Noise as Self
2012In the Beginning: The Caesar Years as Self
2012Lunch as Himself
2009Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World as Self (archive footage)
2008The Jewish Americans (3 Episodes) as Self
2005Pioneers of Primetime as Unknown
2004Comic Book: The Movie as Old Army Buddy
2003Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar as Himself
2002Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure as Jacob (voice)
2002NBC 75th Anniversary Special as Self
2002Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story as Self (uncredited)
2000The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV as Self
2000The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room as Himself
2000The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy as Himself
1999Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: A Salute to the Friars Club as Self
1999Television: The First Fifty Years as Self (archive footage)
1998Whose Line Is It Anyway? (1 Episode) as Self
1998The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit as Sid Zellman
1997Vegas Vacation as Mr Ellis
1996Caesar's Writers as Self
1995The Great Mom Swap as Papa Tognetti
1992Mad About You (1 Episode) as Uncle Harold
1992Love & War (1 Episode) as Unknown
1991Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' as Self
1988Side by Side as Louis Hammerstein
1988Wall of Tyranny as Max
1987Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self
1987The Emperor's New Clothes as The Emperor
1986Christmas Snow as Mr. Snyder
1985Love Is Never Silent as Mr. Petrakis
1985Alice in Wonderland (1 Episode) as Gryphon
1985Stoogemania as Doctor Fixyer Mindyer
1985Amazing Stories (1 Episode) as Lou Bundles
1984All Star Party for Lucille Ball as Self
1984Cannonball Run II as Fisherman #2
1984Over the Brooklyn Bridge as Uncle Benjamin
1983Found Money as Sam Green
1982Matt Houston (1 Episode) as Unknown
1982Grease 2 as Coach Vince Calhoun
1981History of the World: Part I as Chief Caveman
1981The Munsters' Revenge as Dr. Dustin Diablo
1980Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz as Wizard / Mince Pie U.N. Krust / Narrator (voice)
1980The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu as Joe Capone
1980The Big Show (2 Episodes) as Self
1980Pink Lady (1 Episode) as Sid Caesar
1979Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet as King Goochi (voice)
1979America 2100 as MAX (voice)
1978Vega$ (1 Episode) as Unknown
1978W.E.B. (1 Episode) as Unknown
1978The Cheap Detective as Ezra Dezire
1978Grease as Coach Calhoun
1977The Love Boat (1 Episode) as Michael Harmon
1977Curse of the Black Widow as Lazlo Cozart
1977Barnaby and Me as Leo Fisk
1977Fire Sale as Sherman
1977Flight to Holocaust as George Beam
1976Silent Movie as Studio Chief
1976Good Heavens (1 Episode) as Unknown
1975Ann-Margret Smith as Himself
1975Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television as (archive footage)
1975Saturday Night Live (1 Episode) as Self - Host
1974Tony Orlando and Dawn (1 Episode) as Self
1974Dinah! (1 Episode) as Self
1974Airport 1975 as Barney
1974Hamburgers as self
1973The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts (2 Episodes) as Self
1973Ten from Your Show of Shows as Unknown
1973The Bobby Darin Show (1 Episode) as Unknown
1972The Julie Andrews Hour (1 Episode) as Self
1970The Flip Wilson Show (2 Episodes) as Self
1970The Don Knotts Show (1 Episode) as Self
1969Love, American Style (1, 1 Episode) as John Smith, Bert
1968The Dick Cavett Show (2 Episodes) as Self - Guest
1968Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1 Episode) as Self
1967The Carol Burnett Show (4 Episodes) as Self - Guest
1967The Spirit Is Willing as Ben Powell
1967A Guide for the Married Man as Technical Adviser (at Romanoff's)
1967The Busy Body as George Norton
1966That Girl (1 Episode) as Unknown
1965The Dean Martin Show (1 Episode) as Unknown
1964The Hollywood Palace (4 Episodes) as Self
1963It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as Melville Crump
1962The Lucy Show (1 Episode) as Sid Caesar
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (3 Episodes) as Self
1961The Mike Douglas Show (2 Episodes) as Self
1960Checkmate (1 Episode) as Johnny Wilder
1959Some of Manie's Friends as Unknown
1956The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (2 Episodes) as Self
1954Caesar's Hour (1 Episode) as Self - Host
1953General Electric Theater (1 Episode) as Nick Lucifer
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 Episode) as Mr. Petrakis
1950The Colgate Comedy Hour (1 Episode) as Self
1950Your Show of Shows (136 Episodes) as Self - Regular Performer
1950What's My Line? (2 Episodes) as Self - Mystery Guest
1949The Admiral Broadway Revue (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1948The Ed Sullivan Show (10 Episodes) as Self
1947The Guilt of Janet Ames as Sammy Weaver
1946Tars and Spars as Chuck Enders
Crew
2011Woody Allen: A Documentary ... Thanks
1995The 100 Funniest Moments of the 20th Century: The Unexpected ... Thanks
Production
2000The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV ... Executive In Charge Of Production
Creator
1954Caesar's Hour ... Creator