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Acting

Sylvia Sidney

Career: Active from 1930 to 1998, with a break from 1958 to 1970, busiest in 1931 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 40
top three billing

Average score: 64/100

Highest rated: Fury
87/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 53 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Sylvia Sidney Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
4.0, average 5.4
Wonder
2.4, average 3.4
Absurdist Humor
1.2, average 2.0
Physical Comedy
1.6, average 2.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Social Commentary 9
Thought-Provoking 3
Historical Drama 3
Character Study 3
Psychological Thriller 3
Social Realism 3
Suspenseful 2
Political Intrigue 2
Moral Dilemmas 2
Class Conflict 2
1930s Setting 2
Gritty 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

101

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1990s

5 titles · average score 56

Fantasy Island

69

TV show · as Clia

Mars Attacks!

58

as Grandma Norris

Diagnosis: Murder

46

TV show · as Alice

Used People

49

as Becky

Andre's Mother

as Mrs. Downes

1980s

20 titles · average score 66

Beetlejuice

76

as Juno

Pals

as Fern Stobbs

thirtysomething

64

TV show

The Witching of Ben Wagner

58

as Grammy (Regina's Grandmother)

The Equalizer

62

TV show · as Judge

An Early Frost

70

as Beatrice McKenna

The Brass Ring

as Grandmother

Copkiller

57

as Margaret Smith

Come Along with Me

as Mrs. Flanner

Having It All

as Marney

American Playhouse

69

TV show · as Mrs. Downs / Mrs. Flanner

Magnum, P.I.

82

TV show · as Elizabeth Barrett

1970s

17 titles · average score 53

Supertrain

50

TV show · as Agatha Wills

Damien - Omen II

53

as Aunt Marion

Siege

as Lillian Gordon

WKRP in Cincinnati

52

TV show · as Lillian Carlson

Snowbeast

38

as Mrs. Carrie Rill

The Love Boat

53

TV show · as Natalie Corson

Eight Is Enough

42

TV show · as Aunt Fealty

Death at Love House

43

as Clara Josephs

God Told Me To

62

as Elizabeth Mullin

Starsky & Hutch

78

TV show · as Olga Grossman

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

47

as Mrs. Pritchard - Rita's Mother

Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate

62

as Elizabeth Gibson

1960s

4 titles · average score 65

The Defenders

71

TV show · as Adela Collins

My Three Sons

78

TV show · as Miss Houk

Route 66

48

TV show · as Lonnie Taylor / Hannah Ellis

Special for Women

TV show · as Minna Borden

1950s

19 titles · average score 65

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

72

TV show · as Beulah Ridges

Naked City

69

TV show · as Florence Nunda

The Helen Morgan Story

as Lulu Morgan

Behind the High Wall

60

as Hilda Carmichael

Playhouse 90

79

TV show · as Mrs. Kramer

Man on the Ledge

as Mrs. Cosick

The 20th Century Fox Hour

65

TV show · as Mrs. Cosick

Climax!

51

TV show · as Louella Wheedron

Les Miserables

55

as Fantine

The Ford Television Theatre

74

TV show · as Laura Blake

Tales of Tomorrow

44

TV show

Lux Video Theatre

TV show · as Joyce / Laura Barrie

1940s

8 titles · average score 62

Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner

as Sylvia Sidney

The Philco Television Playhouse

TV show

Love from a Stranger

58

as Cecily Harrington

Kraft Television Theatre

78

TV show

Mr. Ace

59

as Margaret Wyndham Chase

The Searching Wind

as Cassie Bowman

Blood on the Sun

65

as Iris Hilliard

The Wagons Roll at Night

51

as Flo Lorraine

1930s

25 titles · average score 70

You and Me

75

as Helen Roberts

You Only Live Once

86

as Joan Graham

Dead End

78

as Drina

Fury

87

as Katherine Grant

Sabotage

78

as Mrs. Verloc

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

66

as June Tolliver

Pick-up

59

as Mary Richards

Merrily We Go to Hell

82

as Joan Prentice

Madame Butterfly

57

as Cho-cho San

An American Tragedy

63

as Roberta 'Bert' Alden

Street Scene

80

as Rose Maurrant

City Streets

76

as Nan Cooley

1920s

3 titles · average score 75

Thru Different Eyes

as Valerie Briand

Broadway Nights

as Performer

The Sorrows of Satan

75

as Bridesmaid (uncredited)