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Sid Caesar
Age: 87
Height: 6' 2"
Birth Place: Yonkers, New York, USA
Born: Sep. 8th, 1922
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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:
- Studied saxophone at the Julliard School of Music before becoming an actor.
- 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).
- Received the Sylvania Award in 1958 for his work in television.
- His children are Michele ("Shelly"), Rick (born February 18, 1952), and Karen (born in 1956).
- Made his Broadway debut performing in the 1948 revue "Make Mine Manhattan," which featured The Five Dollar Date, one of Sid's first original pieces in which he sang, acted, double-talked, pantomimed, and wrote the music.
- Despite his apparent fluency in many languages, in reality Caesar can only speak English and Yiddish.
- His father, Max Caesar, owned a restaurant in Yonkers, NY.
- At fourteen, Caesar first went to the Catskills as a saxophonist with Mike Cifficello's Swingtime Six and would also occasionally perform in sketches.
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