
Sid Caesar
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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.
Known for
Credits

Grease (1978)
as Coach Calhoun

Silent Movie (1976)
as Studio Chief

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
as Melville Crump

Vegas Vacation (1997)
as Mr. Ellis

Stoogemania (1985)
as Doctor Fixyer Mindyer

Grease 2 (1982)
as Coach Vince Calhoun

Cannonball Run II (1984)
as Fisherman #2

Airport 1975 (1974)
as Barney

Hamburgers (1974)
as Self

Pioneers of Primetime (2005)
Actor

The Cheap Detective (1978)
as Ezra Dezire

Love Is Never Silent (1985)
as Mr. Petrakis

A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
as Technical Adviser

History of the World: Part I (1981)
as Chief Caveman

Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar (2003)
as Himself

Barnaby and Me (1977)
as Leo Fisk

Ann-Margret Smith (1975)
as Self

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
as Joe Capone

Lunch (2012)
as Himself

Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' (1991)
as Self

Curse of the Black Widow (1977)
as Lazlo Cozart

The Spirit Is Willing (1967)
as Ben Powell

The Boys of Summer (1983)
as Host

NBC 75th Anniversary Special (2002)
as Self

Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World (2009)
as Self (archive footage)

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987)
as Self
Television: The First Fifty Years (1999)
as Self (archive footage)

The Emperor's New Clothes (1987)
as The Emperor

The All-Star Christmas Show (1958)
as Self

Fire Sale (1977)
as Sherman

Comic Book: The Movie (2004)
as Old Army Buddy

The Great Mom Swap (1995)
as Papa Tognetti

Remembering Gene Wilder (2024)
as Self (archive footage)

Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz (1980)
as Wizard / Mince Pie U.N. Krust / Narrator (voice)

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise (2013)
as Self

The Busy Body (1967)
as George Norton

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998)
as Sid Zellman

In the Beginning: The Caesar Years (2012)
as Self

Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story (2002)
as Self (uncredited)

Tars and Spars (1946)
as Chuck Enders

The Munsters' Revenge (1981)
as Dr. Dustin Diablo

Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984)
as Uncle Benjamin

Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure (2002)
as Jacob (voice)

Wall of Tyranny (1988)
as Max
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television (1975)
as (archive footage)

The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV (2000)
as Self
The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy (2000)
as Himself

The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947)
as Sammy Weaver

Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: A Salute to the Friars Club (1999)
as Self
The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room (2000)
as Himself

Found Money (1983)
as Sam Green

Some of Manie's Friends (1959)
Actor

It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point (2023)
as Melville Crump (archive footage)

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped (2018)
as Self (archive footage)

The Grease Story (2017)
as Coach Calhoun (archive footage)
All Star Party for Lucille Ball (1984)
as Self

Ten from Your Show of Shows (1973)
Actor

Flight to Holocaust (1977)
as George Beam

Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet (1979)
as King Goochi (voice)

Side by Side (1988)
as Louis Hammerstein

Christmas Snow (1986)
as Mr. Snyder

Caesar's Writers (1996)
as Self

America 2100 (1979)
as MAX (voice)





