George Sidney

George Sidney

Born: March 18, 1876
Died: April 29, 1945
in Nagynichal, Hungary

Movies for George Sidney...

Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
Title: Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 2002
Type: Movie
The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtually disappeared from theaters.
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The Good Old Soak
Title: The Good Old Soak
Character: Kennedy
Released: April 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
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Diamond Jim
Title: Diamond Jim
Character: Pawnbroker
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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Back to the Soil
Title: Back to the Soil
Released: August 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Two friends decide to become gold prospectors, and wind up discovering an outlaw's buried treasure.
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Plumbing for Gold
Title: Plumbing for Gold
Released: June 29, 1934
Type: Movie
George and Charlie get jobs as plumbers assistants; on their first assignment, they reduce a house to shambles in search of a lost ring.
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Fishing for Trouble
Title: Fishing for Trouble
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
George and Charlie go fishing - but things don't turn out exactly as planned.
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Manhattan Melodrama
Title: Manhattan Melodrama
Character: Poppa Rosen
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
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Stable Mates
Title: Stable Mates
Released: April 5, 1934
Type: Movie
Two bankers, thrown out of work by the Depression, find jobs on a western ranch.
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Radio Dough
Title: Radio Dough
Character: Mr. Sidney
Released: February 5, 1934
Type: Movie
Two partners in a clothing store decide they want to become radio performers.
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Ten Baby Fingers
Title: Ten Baby Fingers
Released: January 26, 1934
Type: Movie
Two men find a baby they think is abandoned.
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Rafter Romance
Title: Rafter Romance
Character: Eckbaum
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.
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The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
Title: The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
Character: Nathan Cohen
Released: April 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-8
Title: Hollywood on Parade No. A-8
Character: Himself
Released: March 10, 1933
Type: Movie
In the Hollywood Hall of Fame - a wax museum - the figure of Eddie Borden comes to life and introduces us to various stars in effigy. Pining over the effigy of Clara Bow, her husband Rex Bell suggests that Eddie get on with Betty Boop. Betty asks Eddie to accompany her in a rendition of "My Silent Love."
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The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
Title: The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
Character: Nathan Cohen
Released: March 27, 1932
Type: Movie
The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.
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The Heart of New York
Title: The Heart of New York
Character: Mendel Marantz
Released: March 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side neighborhood after he sells his new invention.
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Running Hollywood
Title: Running Hollywood
Character: Street Cleaner
Released: January 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
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The Stolen Jools
Title: The Stolen Jools
Character: Cohen
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
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Caught Cheating
Title: Caught Cheating
Character: Sam Harris
Released: January 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Joe Cabrone vows to kill Sam after believing him to be having an affair with his wife.
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The Cohens and the Kellys in Africa
Title: The Cohens and the Kellys in Africa
Character: Cohen
Released: December 21, 1930
Type: Movie
Cohen and Kelly families go to Africa to buy elephant tusks.
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Rolling Along
Title: Rolling Along
Released: September 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Two incompetent bus drivers attempt to exact revenge on their no nonsense boss. Hilarity ensues.
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Around the Corner
Title: Around the Corner
Character: Kaplan
Released: April 25, 1930
Type: Movie
18-year-old Rosie Kaplan O'Grady was found as an abandoned baby by O'Grady, an Irish policeman, and Kaplan, a Jewish pawnbroker, and raised by them as their own. She is being courted by two men; prizefighter Terry Callahan and a rich socialite, Tommy Sinclair and has to choose between them.
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The Cohens and the Kellys in Scotland
Title: The Cohens and the Kellys in Scotland
Character: Cohen
Released: March 1, 1930
Type: Movie
The Cohens and the Kellys travel to Scotland to buy plaid in the hopes that a prince will start a new fashion trend.
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Give and Take
Title: Give and Take
Character: Plant Foreman
Released: December 23, 1928
Type: Movie
The owner of a fruit cannery is facing financial ruin as a result of a strike. Unbeknownst to him, his son is the person who is organizing it.
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We Americans
Title: We Americans
Character: Mr. Levine
Released: May 6, 1928
Type: Movie
We Americans was based on the Broadway play of the same name. Returning to the "melting pot" themes that he handled so well, director Edward H. Sloman concentrates on the trials and tribulations of three first-generation American families: The Jewish Levines, the German Schmidts and the Italian Albertinis.
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The Latest from Paris
Title: The Latest from Paris
Character: Sol Blogg
Released: February 4, 1928
Type: Movie
The Latest from Paris takes place in New York's garment district, where business rivals Blogg and Littauer have been carrying on a feud for years. In the tradition of Romeo and Juliet, heroine Ann Dolan works for Blogg, while her sweetheart Joe Adams is employed by Littauer.
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The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
Title: The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
Released: January 15, 1928
Type: Movie
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The Life of Riley
Title: The Life of Riley
Character: Otto Meyer - Police Chief
Released: September 3, 1927
Type: Movie
Silent comedy film directed by William Beaudine..
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For the Love of Mike
Title: For the Love of Mike
Character: Abraham Katz
Released: July 31, 1927
Type: Movie
Three men join forces to raise an adopted son.
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The Auctioneer
Title: The Auctioneer
Character: Simon Levi
Released: January 16, 1927
Type: Movie
Simon, a young Jewish man emigrating to the US, adopts the daughter of a dying woman on the ship. After he settles in the US, he eventually builds up a successful business as a pawnbroker and auctioneer. His adopted daughter Ruth falls in love with a young Wall Street broker, and her father invests his fortune in the young man's firm. However, a crooked broker at the firm causes Simon to lose all his money, and he must start all over again. He sets out to track down the crooked broker and get his money back.
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Millionaires
Title: Millionaires
Character: Meyer Rubens
Released: October 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Meyer Rubens and his wife, Esther, own a pressing-shop in New York's Lower East Side. Esther wants to move on up to the Upper West Side. She has a rich sister, Reba, who persuades Meyer to invest in the worthless oil stock sold by her husband. The stock proves to be not worthless and Meyer and Esther become overnight millionaires. But Reba thinks Meyer, who has no taste for high society, is holding her sister back socially, so she devises some schemes that involve catching Meyer in a compromising situation with other women, so her sister can file for a divorce.
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Sweet Daddies
Title: Sweet Daddies
Character: Abie Finklebaum
Released: June 12, 1926
Type: Movie
Stage comedian Patrick O'Brien is fired from his job because of his drinking celebration of his son, Jimmy, graduating from college. After the show he meets his son on a cabaret and there meets Abel Finklestein and his daughter, Miriam, and the two fathers form a business alliance, suspected of being bootlegging. They are arrested but are released after it is found they were importing molasses - but Miriam has to promise to marry Sam Berkowitz to secure the release. Jimmy and both fathers are unhappy with this turn of events.
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The Prince of Pilsen
Title: The Prince of Pilsen
Released: May 2, 1926
Type: Movie
Frederick, Prince of Pilsen, rebelling against his coming marriage with Princess Bertha of Thorwald, meets Hans Wagner, a brewer, and his daughter Nellie. The brewer, mistaking the prince for the son of a friend, asks him to join in a banquet. Hans becomes intoxicated, dresses up in a uniform, and is then mistaken by a coachman for the prince and brought to the palace
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The Cohens and Kellys
Title: The Cohens and Kellys
Character: Jacob Cohen
Released: February 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Jacob Cohen, who owns a dry goods store, and Patrick Kelly, an Irish cop, are constantly at loggerheads, feuding over anything and everything. Kelly's son, Tim, and Cohen's daughter, Nannie, fall in love despite the bickering of their parents; when they cannot get parental consent for their marriage, they secretly wed.
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Partners Again
Title: Partners Again
Character: Abe Potash
Released: February 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Goldwyn produced a 1923 film adaptation of Potash and Perlmutter, and a 1924 sequel called In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter. In Partners Again the two are in the automobile industry -- This is a lost Film.
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In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
Title: In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
Character: Abe Potash
Released: September 28, 1924
Type: Movie
A sequel of sorts, the Jewish ethnic comedy characters of Potash and Perlmutter return from their 1923 debut film, also produced by Goldwyn, but with a different actor for Potash.