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

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1968
The Mike Douglas Show
1968
Saturday Night Live
1983
The Love Boat
1978
What's My Line?
1963
The Dick Cavett Show
1971
Love, American Style
1969
Mad About You
1997
The Carol Burnett Show
1967
The Lucy Show
1968
Dinah!
1975
The Ed Sullivan Show
1956

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
106
Producing
1
Crew
2
2024
Remembering Gene Wilder
as Self (archive footage)
2023
It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point
as Melville Crump (archive footage)
2018
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
as Self (archive footage)
2017
The Grease Story
as Coach Calhoun (archive footage)
2013
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
as Self
2012
Lunch
as Himself
2012
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
as Self
2009
Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
as Self (archive footage)
2008
The Jewish Americans
as Self
2005
Pioneers of Primetime
2004
Comic Book: The Movie
as Old Army Buddy
2003
Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar
as Himself
2002
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
as Self
2002
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
as Self (uncredited)
2002
Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure
as Jacob (voice)
2001
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
as Self
2000
The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV
as Self
2000
The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy
as Himself
2000
The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room
as Himself
1999
Let Me In, I Hear Laughter: A Salute to the Friars Club
as Self
1999
Television: The First Fifty Years
as Self (archive footage)
1998
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
as Sid Zellman
1997
Vegas Vacation
as Mr. Ellis
1997
Mad About You
as Uncle Harold
1996
Caesar's Writers
as Self
1995
The Great Mom Swap
as Papa Tognetti
1995
Love & War
1991
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
as Self
1988
Side by Side
as Louis Hammerstein
1988
Wall of Tyranny
as Max
1987
The Emperor's New Clothes
as The Emperor
1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
as Self
1986
Christmas Snow
as Mr. Snyder
1985
Stoogemania
as Doctor Fixyer Mindyer
1985
Love Is Never Silent
as Mr. Petrakis
1985
Amazing Stories
as Lou Bundles
1985
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Mr. Petrakis
1985
Alice in Wonderland
as Gryphon
1984
All Star Party for Lucille Ball
as Self
1984
Over the Brooklyn Bridge
as Uncle Benjamin
1984
Cannonball Run II
as Fisherman #2
1984
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
as Self
1983
Found Money
as Sam Green
1983
The Boys of Summer
as Host
1983
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1982
Grease 2
as Coach Vince Calhoun
1982
Matt Houston
1981
History of the World: Part I
as Chief Caveman
1981
The Munsters' Revenge
as Dr. Dustin Diablo
1980
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
as Joe Capone
1980
Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz
as Wizard / Mince Pie U.N. Krust / Narrator (voice)
1980
The Big Show
as Self
1980
Pink Lady
as Sid Caesar
1979
America 2100
as MAX (voice)
1979
Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet
as King Goochi (voice)
1978
Grease
as Coach Calhoun
1978
The Cheap Detective
as Ezra Dezire
1978
Vega$
1978
W.E.B.
1978
The Love Boat
as Michael Harmon
1977
Fire Sale
as Sherman
1977
Barnaby and Me
as Leo Fisk
1977
Flight to Holocaust
as George Beam
1977
Curse of the Black Widow
as Lazlo Cozart
1976
Silent Movie
as Studio Chief
1976
Good Heavens
1976
Tony Orlando and Dawn
as Self
1975
Ann-Margret Smith
as Self
1975
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television
as (archive footage)
1975
Dinah!
as Self
1975
When Things Were Rotten
as Marquis de la Salle
1974
Airport 1975
as Barney
1974
Hamburgers
as Self
1973
Ten from Your Show of Shows
1973
The Julie Andrews Hour
as Self
1973
The Bobby Darin Show
1971
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1971
Love, American Style
as Bert
1970
The Don Knotts Show
as Self
1970
The Flip Wilson Show
as Self
1969
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self
1969
The Dean Martin Show
1969
Love, American Style
as John Smith
1968
The Lucy Show
as Sid Caesar
1968
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1968
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1968
That Girl
as Marty Nickels
1967
A Guide for the Married Man
as Technical Adviser
1967
The Spirit Is Willing
as Ben Powell
1967
The Busy Body
as George Norton
1967
The Carol Burnett Show
as Self - Guest
1966
The Hollywood Palace
as Self
1963
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as Melville Crump
1963
What's My Line?
as Self
1961
General Electric Theater
as Nick Lucifer
1961
Checkmate
as Johnny Wilder
1959
Some of Manie's Friends
1958
The All-Star Christmas Show
as Self
1958
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1954
Caesar's Hour
as Self - Host
1951
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
Your Show of Shows
as Self - Regular Performer
1949
The Admiral Broadway Revue
1947
The Guilt of Janet Ames
as Sammy Weaver
1946
Tars and Spars
as Chuck Enders