Sid Caesar Add to My Celebs Age 89 Birthday Sep. 8th, 1922 Born in Yonkers, New York, USA Height 6' 2"

Sid Caesar's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) The Carol Burnett Show (1967) Various Cha… Life with Louie Wally Kazoo The Jerry Lewis Show Sid Caesar Your Show of Shows Regular Per… The Big Show Sid Caesar Caesar's Hour Sid Caesar Caesar Presents Various Love & War Stein Sid Caesar Invites You Sid Caesar Sid Caesar Invites You (UK) Sid Caesar The Admiral Broadway Revue Regular Per… The Bob Monkhouse Show (UK) Sid Caesar The Danny Thomas Hour Gregory The Revlon Revue Sid Caesar The Sid Caesar Show Various

Main Movie Roles 1997 - Vegas Vacation 1984 - Cannonball Run II 1982 - Grease 2 1981 - History of the World: Part I 1980 - The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu 1978 - Grease 1978 - The Cheap Detective 1977 - Fire Sale 1976 - Silent Movie 1974 - Airport 1975 1967 - The Spirit Is Willing 1967 - The Busy Body 1967 - A Guide for the Married Man 1963 - It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1947 - The Guilt of Janet Ames

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB


BIOGRAPHY:

Comedian, saxophonist, composer, actor and musician, he performed within the orchestras of Charlie Spivak, Shep Fields (I) and Claude Thornhill as saxophonist. Later, as super-hip jazz musician "Cool Cees" in television skits, he played tenor saxophone, and sang with the satirical trio "The Hair Cuts" (with Carl Reiner and Howard Morris (I)). He sang the lead role in "Little Me" on Broadway. Joining ASCAP in 1955, his popular song compositions include "I Wrote This Song for Your Birthday" and "Was That You?".


TRIVIA:

• Caesar was assigned as a musician in the Coast Guard, taking part in the service show "Tars and Spars," where producer Max Liebman overheard him improvising comedy routines among the band members, and switched him over to comedy. Sid later made his film debut in the adaptation of his stage hit _Tars and Spars (1946)_ (qv).
• Best remembered on 'Your Shows of Shows' and the movies, 'Grease' (1978) and Grease 2.
• Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 84-86. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
• His children are Michele ("Shelly"), Rick (born February 18, 1952), and Karen (born in 1956).
• At fourteen, Caesar first went to the Catskills as a saxophonist with Mike Cifficello's Swingtime Six and would also occasionally perform in sketches.
• Played at the Vacationland Hotel in Swan Lake in the Catskills during his salad days. There, under the tutelage of Don Appel, the resort's social director, Caesar played in the band and learned to perform comedy, doing three shows a week.
• Also won Best Comedy Team (with 'Imogene Coca' (qv)) in 1953.
• Caesar's appearance in his first series _"The Admiral Broadway Revue" (1949)_ (qv) with 'Imogene Coca' (qv) was a huge hit with TV audiences. Simultaneously broadcast on NBC and the Dumont network, its sponsor, Admiral Corporation, an appliance company, could not keep up with the demand for its new television sets, so the show was canceled on account of its runaway success.

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