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词条 Sid Caesar
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

     Stage and film  Television  Style and technique  Subjects  Working with writers  Impact on television  Faded success and personal problems  Later years 

  3. Death

  4. Awards and honors

  5. Filmography

     Film  Television 

  6. See also

  7. References

  8. Further reading

  9. External links

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| death_place = Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
| occupation = Actor, comedian, writer, musician, producer
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Isaac Sidney Caesar (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2014) was an American comic actor and writer, best known for two pioneering 1950s live television series: Your Show of Shows, which was a 90-minute weekly show watched by 60 million people, and its successor, Caesar's Hour, both of which influenced later generations of comedians.[1] Your Show of Shows and its cast received seven Emmy nominations between the years 1953 and 1954 and tallied two wins. He also acted in movies; he played Coach Calhoun in Grease (1978) and its sequel Grease 2 (1982) and appeared in the films It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Silent Movie (1976), History of the World, Part I (1981), Cannonball Run II (1984), and "Vegas Vacation" (1997).

Caesar was considered a "sketch comic" and actor, as opposed to a stand-up comedian. He also relied more on body language, accents, and facial contortions than simply dialogue. Unlike the slapstick comedy which was standard on TV, his style was considered "avant garde" in the 1950s. He conjured up ideas and scene and used writers to flesh out the concept and create the dialogue. Among the writers who wrote for Caesar early in their careers were Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Larry Gelbart, Carl Reiner, Michael Stewart, Mel Tolkin, Selma Diamond, and Woody Allen. "Sid's was the show to which all comedy writers aspired. It was the place to be," said Steve Allen.

His TV shows' subjects included satires of real life events and people—and parodies of popular film genres, theater, television shows, and opera. But unlike other comedy shows at the time, the dialogue was considered sharper, funnier, and more adult-oriented. He was "...best known as one of the most intelligent and provocative innovators of television comedy," who some critics called television's Charlie Chaplin and The New York Times refers to as the "...comedian of comedians from TV's early days."[2]

Honored in numerous ways over 60 years, he was nominated for 11 Emmy Awards, winning twice. He was also a saxophonist and author of several books, including two autobiographies in which he described his career and later struggle to overcome years of alcoholism and addiction to barbiturates.

Early life

Caesar was the youngest of three sons born to Jewish immigrants living in Yonkers, New York. His father was Max Ziser (1874–1946) and his mother was Ida (née Raphael) (1887–1975). They likely were from Dąbrowa Tarnowska, Poland.[2] Reports state that the surname "Caesar" was given to Max, as a child, by an immigration official at Ellis Island.[3][4][5] This is an urban myth. According to Marian L. Smith, senior historian of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, there is no known case of a name changed at Ellis Island.[6]{{clarify|date=February 2018}} Max and Ida Caesar ran a restaurant, a 24-hour luncheonette.[7]

By waiting on tables, their son learned to mimic the patois, rhythm and accents of the diverse clientele, a technique he termed double-talk, which he used throughout his career. He first tried double-talk with a group of Italians, his head barely reaching above the table. They enjoyed it so much that they sent him over to a group of Poles to repeat his native-sounding patter in Polish, and so on with Russians, Hungarians, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Lithuanians, and Bulgarians. Sid Caesar's older brother, David, was his comic mentor and "one-man cheering section."[8] They created their earliest family sketches from movies of the day like Test Pilot and the 1927 silent film Wings.[9]

At 14, Caesar went to the Catskill Mountains as a saxophonist in the Swingtime Six band with Mike Cifichello and Andrew Galos and occasionally performed in sketches in the Borscht Belt.[2]

Career

Stage and film

After graduating from Yonkers High School in 1939,[12] Caesar left home, intent on a musical career. He arrived in Manhattan and worked as an usher and then a doorman at the Capitol Theater there.[2] He was ineligible to join the musicians' union in New York City until he established residency,[9] but he found work as a saxophonist at the Vacationland Hotel, a resort located in the Catskill Mountains of Sullivan County, New York. Mentored by Don Appel, the resort's social director, Caesar played in the dance band and learned to perform comedy, doing three shows a week.[9] He audited classes in clarinet and saxophone at the Juilliard School of Music.[10] In 1939, he enlisted in the United States Coast Guard, and was stationed in Brooklyn, New York, where he played in military revues and shows.[11] Vernon Duke, the composer of Autumn in New York, April in Paris, and Taking a Chance on Love, was at the same base and collaborated with Caesar on musical revues.[9]

During the summer of 1942, Caesar met his future wife, Florence Levy, at the Avon Lodge in the Catskills village of Woodridge, New York. They were married on July 17, 1943,[12] and had three children: Michele, Rick and Karen.[12] After joining the musicians' union, he briefly played with Shep Fields, Claude Thornhill, Charlie Spivak, Art Mooney and Benny Goodman.[13] Later in his career, he performed "Sing, Sing, Sing" with Goodman for a TV performance.[14]

Still in the service, Caesar was ordered to Palm Beach, Florida, where Vernon Duke and Howard Dietz were putting together a service revue called Tars and Spars. There he met the civilian director of the show, Max Liebman. When Caesar's comedy got bigger applause than the musical numbers, Liebman asked him to do stand-up bits between the songs. Tars and Spars toured nationally, and became Caesar's first major gig as a comedian.[23] Liebman later produced Caesar's first television series.

After the war, the Caesars moved to Hollywood. In 1946, Columbia Pictures produced a film version of Tars and Spars in which Caesar reprised his role. The next year, he acted in The Guilt of Janet Ames. He turned down the lead of The Jolson Story as he did not want to be known as an impersonator, and turned down several other offers to play sidekick roles.[9] He soon returned to New York, where he became the opening act for Joe E. Lewis at the Copacabana nightclub. He reunited with Liebman, who guided his stage material and presentation. That job led to a contract with the William Morris Agency and a nationwide tour. Caesar also performed in a Broadway revue, Make Mine Manhattan, which featured The Five Dollar Date—one of his first original pieces, in which he sang, acted, double-talked, pantomimed, and wrote the music.[25] He won a 1948 Donaldson Award for his contributions to the musical.[9][15]

Television

Caesar's television career began with an appearance on Milton Berle's Texaco Star Theater[16] in the fall of 1948.[17] In early 1949, Caesar and Liebman met with Pat Weaver, vice president of television at NBC, which led to Caesar's first series, Admiral Broadway Revue with Imogene Coca. The Friday show was simultaneously broadcast on NBC and the DuMont network, and was an immediate success. However, its sponsor, Admiral, an appliance company, could not keep up with the demand for its new television sets, so the show was cancelled after 26 weeks—ironically, on account of its runaway success.[25]

On February 25, 1950, Caesar appeared in the first episode of Your Show of Shows, initially the second half of the two-hour umbrella show, Saturday Night Review; at the end of the 1950–51 season, Your Show of Shows became its own, 90-minute program from the International Theatre at 5 Columbus Circle and later The Center Theatre at Sixth Avenue and 49th Street.[18] Burgess Meredith hosted the first two shows,[18] and the premiere featured musical guests Gertrude Lawrence, Lily Pons and Robert Merrill.[9] The show was a mix of sketch comedy, movie and television satires, Caesar's monologues, musical guests, and large production numbers. Guests included: Jackie Cooper, Robert Preston, Rex Harrison, Eddie Albert, Michael Redgrave, Basil Rathbone, Charlton Heston, Geraldine Page, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Pearl Bailey, Fred Allen, Benny Goodman, Lena Horne and many other stars of the time. It was also responsible for bringing together the comedy team of Caesar, Coca, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris. Many writers also got their break creating the show's sketches, including Lucille Kallen, Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Michael Stewart, Mel Tolkin and Sheldon Keller. Sid Caesar won his first Emmy in 1952. In 1951 and 1952, he was voted the United States' Best Comedian in Motion Picture Daily{{'}}s TV poll. The show ended after almost 160 episodes[9] on June 5, 1954.[18]

A few months later, Caesar returned with Caesar's Hour, a one-hour sketch/variety show with Morris, Reiner, Bea Arthur and other members of his former crew. Nanette Fabray replaced Coca, who had left to star in her own short-lived series. Ultimate creative and technical control was now in Caesar's hands, originating from the Century Theater[9] and the weekly budget doubled to $125,000.[9] The premiere on September 27, 1954, featured Gina Lollobrigida.[9] Everything was performed live, including the commercials.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}}

Caesar's Hour was followed by ABC's short-lived Sid Caesar Invites You from January 26 to May 25, 1958. It briefly reunited Caesar, Coca, and Reiner, with Simon and Brooks among the writers.[19]

In 1963, Caesar appeared on television, on stage, and in the movies. Several As Caesar Sees It specials evolved into the 1963–64 Sid Caesar Show (which alternated with Edie Adams in Here's Edie).[20] He starred with Virginia Martin in the Broadway musical Little Me, with book by Simon, choreography by Bob Fosse, and music by Cy Coleman. Playing eight parts with 32 costume changes, he was nominated in 1963 for a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical.[21] On film, Caesar and Adams played a husband and wife drawn into a mad race to find buried loot in the 1963 comedy extravaganza It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

Style and technique

Caesar was not a stand-up comedian but a "sketch comic, and actor," wrote one historian. "He conjured up ideas and enhanced scenes, but never wrote a word," and thereby depended on his writers for dialogue.[22] Caesar was skilled at pantomime, dialects, monologues, foreign language double-talk and general comic acting.[23]

His sketches were often long, sometimes 10 or 15 minutes, with numerous close-ups showing the expressions on the faces of Caesar and other actors. Caesar relied more on body language, accents, and facial contortions than simply spoken dialogue. Unlike the slapstick comedy, which was standard on TV, his style was considered avant garde.[22] Caesar "...was born with the ability to write physical poetry," notes comedian Steve Allen,[22] a technique like that used for a silent film comedian.[22] An example of this "silent film" style is a live sketch with Nanette Fabray, where they both pantomime with careful choreography, having an argument with music by Beethoven in the background.[24]

Writer Mel Tolkin stated that Caesar "didn't like one-line jokes in sketches because he felt that if the joke was a good one, anybody could do it. One-liners would take him away from what drove his personal approach to comedy."[22] Larry Gelbart called Caesar's style theatrical, and called him "...a pure TV comedian."[22] In describing his control during the live performances, actress Nanette Fabray recalled that unlike most comedians, such as Red Skelton, Bob Hope or Milton Berle, Caesar always stayed in character: "He was so totally into the scene he never lost it."[22]

Caesar was able to pantomime a wide variety of things: a tire, a gumball machine, a lion, a dog, a punching bag, a telephone, an infant, an elevator, a railroad train, a herd of horses, a piano, a rattlesnake and a bottle of seltzer.[22] On the Dick Clark show in 1978, he played a chewing gum machine and a slot machine.[25] He was also able to create imaginary characters. Alfred Hitchcock compared him to Charlie Chaplin, and critic John Crosby felt "he could wrench laughter out of you with the violence of his great eyes and the sheer immensity of his parody."[22] In an article in The Saturday Evening Post in 1953, show business biographer Maurice Zolotow noted that "Caesar relies upon grunts and grimaces to express a vast range of emotions."[22]

Of his double-talk routines, Carl Reiner said, "His ability to doubletalk every language known to man was impeccable,"[26] and during one performance Caesar imitated four different languages but with almost no real words.[27] Despite his apparent fluency in many languages, Caesar could actually speak only English and Yiddish. In 2008, Caesar told a USA Today reporter, "Every language has its own music ... If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song."[28] Having developed this mimicry skill, he could create entire monologues using gibberish in numerous languages, as he did in a skit in which he played a German general.[29]

Subjects

Among his primary subjects were parodies and spoofs of various film genres, including gangster films, westerns, newspaper dramas, spy movies and other TV shows. Unlike other comedy shows at the time, the dialogue on his shows were considered sharper, funnier and more adult oriented.[22] In his sketches for Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, he would also typically "skewer the minutiae of domestic life" along with lampooning popular or classic movies.[30]

Contemporary movies, foreign movies, theater, television shows and opera were targets of satire by the writing team. Often the publicity generated by the sketches boosted the box office of the original productions. Some notable sketches included: "From Here to Obscurity" (From Here to Eternity), "Aggravation Boulevard" (Sunset Boulevard), "Hat Basterson" (Bat Masterson), and "No West for the Wicked" (Stagecoach).

They also performed some recurring sketches. "The Hickenloopers", television's first bickering-couple sketch, predated The Honeymooners. As "The Professor", Caesar was the daffy expert who bluffed his way through his interviews with earnest roving reporter Carl Reiner. In its various incarnations, "The Professor" could be Gut von Fraidykat (mountain-climbing expert), Ludwig von Spacebrain (space expert), or Ludwig von Henpecked (marriage expert). Later, "The Professor" was inspiration for Mel Brooks' "The Two Thousand Year Old Man".{{citation needed|date=September 2016}} The most prominent recurring sketch on the show was "The Commuters", which featured Caesar, Reiner, and Morris involved with everyday working and suburban life situations. Years later, the sketch "Sneaking through the Sound Barrier", a parody of the British film The Sound Barrier, ran continuously as part of a display on supersonic flight at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Working with writers

Steve Allen claimed, "Sid's was the show to which all comedy writers aspired. It was the place to be."[22] While Caesar did not write his dialogue, he made all final decisions. His writers, such as Mel Brooks, felt they "had a great instrument in Caesar that we could all play, and we played it very well."[22] As for Caesar, Nachman describes him basically as an "inspired idea man who allowed the writers to take more risks" than other TV shows.[22] Woody Allen remembers that "...you wrote situations," instead of jokes, as in "This Is Your Story" with Carl Reiner, a parody of the popular TV show This is Your Life.[31][32] It was said to be "Caesar's personal favorite" sketch.[22]

In many cases, sketch dialogue was not even written down, but simply indicated by describing a scene, as in, "Sid does man coming home from business mad."[22] Sometimes, said Larry Gelbart, it was "organized chaos," and when watching the writers create from offstage, felt, "...it was a religious experience."[22] To Mel Brooks, "it was a zoo. Everyone pitched lines at Sid. Jokes would be changed fifty times."[22] Naturally there were some explosive episodes: "Mr. Caesar once dangled a terrified Mr. Brooks from an 18th-story window until colleagues restrained him. With one punch, he knocked out a horse that had thrown his wife off its back, a scene that Mr. Brooks replayed in his movie Blazing Saddles."[22]

Neil Simon recalled that after writing out a sketch and giving it to Caesar, "Sid would make it ten times funnier than what we wrote. Sid acted everything out, so the sketches we did were like little plays."[22] Simon also remembered the impact that working for Caesar had on him: "The first time I saw Caesar it was like seeing a new country. All other comics were basically doing situations with farcical characters. Caesar was doing life."[22]

Some of his writers, like Woody Allen, initially didn't like being among the large team of writers coming up with routines for Caesar, feeling it was too competitive and contributed to hostility among writers. An Allen biographer wrote that Allen "...chafed under the atmosphere of inspired spontaneity", although Allen did say that, "Writing for Caesar was the highest thing you could aspire to—at least as a TV comedy writer. Only the presidency was above that."[22] Neil Simon noted that "we were competitive the way a family is competitive to get dad's attention. We all wanted to be Sid's favorite."[22] As part of the competitive atmosphere in The Writer's Room, as it was called, friendship was also critical. Larry Gelbart explained:

{{quote|We were able to be urbane. Between us we read every book. Between us we saw every movie. Between us we saw every play on Broadway. You could make jokes about Kafka or Tennessee Williams. We also had dinner together. We went to movies together. We were all friends. And that was very important. We appreciated each other a lot.[33]}}

Impact on television

Nachman concludes that "the Caesar shows were the crème de la crème of fifties television," as they were "studded with satire, and their sketches sharper, edgier, more sophisticated than the other variety shows."[22] Likewise, historian Susan Murray notes that Caesar was "...best known as one of the most intelligent and provocative innovators of television comedy."[34]

According to actress Nanette Fabray, who acted alongside Caesar, "He was the first original TV comedy creation."[22] His early shows were the "...gold standard for TV sketch comedy."[22] In 1951, Newsweek noted that according to "the opinion of lots of smart people, Caesar is the best that TV has to offer,"[22] while Zolotow, in his 1953 profile for The Saturday Evening Post, wrote that "in temperament, physique, and technique of operation, Caesar represents a new species of comedian."[22]

However, his positive impact on television became a negative one for Broadway. Caesar fans preferred to stay home on Saturday nights to watch his show instead of seeing live plays. "The Caesar show became such a Saturday-night must-see habit—the Saturday Night Live of its day," states Nachman, that "...Broadway producers begged NBC to switch the show to midweek."[22] Comedy star Carol Burnett, who later had her own hit TV show, remembers winning tickets to see My Fair Lady on Broadway: "I gave the tickets to my roommate because I said, Fair Lady's gonna be running for a hundred years, but Sid Caesar is live and I'll never see that again."[33]

Faded success and personal problems

After nearly 10 years as a prime-time star of television comedy with Your Show of Shows followed by Caesar's Hour, his stardom ended rapidly and he nearly disappeared from the spotlight. Nachman describes this period:

{{quote|Caesar slid into a personal and career abyss ... [he] had no interest in movies ... He would live and die by the tube. His career was short-circuited by alcohol and pills ... The pressures of sudden stardom, of headlining and co-producing a weekly hit show, crushed him.[22]}}

Caesar himself felt, "It had all come too fast, was too easy, and he didn't deserve the acclaim."[22] Writer Mel Brooks, who also became his close friend, said, "I know of no other comedian, including Chaplin, who could have done nearly ten years of live television. Nobody's talent was ever more used up than Sid's. He was one of the greatest artists ever born. But over a period of years, television ground him into sausages."[22]

In 1977, after blacking out during a stage performance of Neil Simon's The Last of the Red Hot Lovers in Regina, Saskatchewan, Caesar gave up alcohol "cold turkey". In his 1982 autobiography, Where Have I Been?, and his second book, Caesar's Hours, he chronicled his struggle to overcome his alcoholism and addiction to sleeping pills.

Later years

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Caesar continued to make occasional television and theatrical appearances and starred in several movies including Silent Movie and History of the World, Part I (both reuniting him with Mel Brooks), Airport 1975, and as Coach Calhoun in Grease and its sequel Grease 2 in 1982. In 1971, he starred opposite Carol Channing and a young Tommy Lee Jones in the Broadway show Four on a Garden.

In 1973, Caesar reunited with Imogene Coca for the stage play, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, written in 1971 by Neil Simon. Their play opened in Chicago in August 1973.[35] That same year, Caesar and Max Liebman mined their own personal kinescopes from Your Show of Shows (NBC had "lost" the studio copies) and they produced a feature film Ten From Your Show of Shows, a compilation of some of their best sketches. In 1974, Caesar said, "I'd like to be back every week" on TV and appeared in the NBC skit-based comedy television pilot called Hamburgers.[36]

In 1980, he appeared as a double talking Japanese father for Mei and Kei's Pink Lady and opposite Jeff Altman in the Pink Lady and Jeff show.

In 1983, Caesar hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live, where he received a standing ovation at the start of the show and was awarded a plaque at the conclusion of the show declaring him an honorary cast member.[37] He released an exercise video, Sid Caesar's Shape Up!, in 1985.[38] In 1987–89, Caesar appeared as Frosch the Jailer in Die Fledermaus at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.[39] In 1987, Caesar starred in the David Irving film The Emperor's New Clothes with Robert Morse as the Tailor. Caesar remained active by appearing in movies, television and award shows, including the movie The Great Mom Swap in 1995.

In 1996, the Writers Guild of America, West reunited Caesar with nine of his writers from Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour for a two-hour panel discussion featuring head writer Mel Tolkin, Caesar, Carl Reiner, Aaron Ruben, Larry Gelbart, Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Danny Simon, Sheldon Keller, and Gary Belkin. The event was taped, broadcast on PBS in the United States and the BBC in the UK, and later released as a DVD titled Caesar's Writers.[40]

In 1997, he made a guest appearance in Vegas Vacation and, the following year, in The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit in 1998 based on a Ray Bradbury novel. Also that year, Caesar joined fellow television icons Bob Hope and Milton Berle at the 50th anniversary of the Primetime Emmy Awards. Billy Crystal also paid tribute to Caesar that night when he won an Emmy for hosting that year's Oscar telecast, recalling seeing Caesar doing a parody of Yul Brynner in The King & I on Your Show of Shows. Caesar performed his double-talk in a "foreign dub" skit on the November 21, 2001 episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway?

On September 7, 2001, Caesar, Carl Reiner and Nanette Fabray appeared on CNN's live interview program Larry King Live along with actor, comedian and improvisationist Drew Carey.[41]

In 2003, he joined Edie Adams and Marvin Kaplan at a 40th anniversary celebration for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.[42] In 2004, Caesar's second autobiography, Caesar's Hours, was published, and in 2006, Billy Crystal presented Caesar with the TV Land Awards' Pioneer Award.[43] In what TV Land called "...a hilarious, heartfelt, multilingual, uncut acceptance speech,"[43] Caesar performed his double-talk for over five minutes.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}}

In a November 2009 article in the Toluca Lake, California, Tolucan Times, columnist Greg Crosby described a visit with Caesar and his wife Florence at their home. Of the couple's meeting, Florence said, "Well, I thought he was nice for the summer ... I thought he would be just a nice boyfriend for the summer. He was cute-looking and tall, over six feet.... I was in my last year at Hunter College; we were still dating when Sid went into the service, the Coast Guard. Luckily he was stationed in New York so we were able to continue seeing each other, even though my parents weren't too happy about it. They never thought he would amount to anything, that he'd never have a real career or make any money. But we were married one year after we met, in July of 1943." She also pointed out, "You know, he's not funny all the time. He can be very serious." At the time of the interview, the couple had been married for 66 years.[44] Florence Caesar died on March 3, 2010, aged 88.[30][45]

Death

Caesar died on February 12, 2014 at his home in Beverly Hills, California, at the age of 91, after a short illness.[46]

On Caesar's death, Carl Reiner said, "He was the ultimate, he was the very best sketch artist and comedian that ever existed." Mel Brooks commented, "Sid Caesar was a giant, maybe the best comedian who ever practiced the trade. And I was privileged to be one of his writers and one of his friends."[26] Jon Stewart and The Daily Show paid tribute to Caesar at the show's close on February 12, 2014.[47] Vanity Fair republished a brief tribute written by Billy Crystal in August 2005, in which he said of Caesar and his contemporaries:

{{quote|I get nervous when I am with these giants. I always feel like I want to say, Thank you. I am blessed to have grown up in their time of perfection, to have witnessed the utter force of Sid. Live, uncut, daring but not risqué. Never stooping beneath themselves, Sid and this team of icons put forth a raucous, hilarious, and truthful brand of comedy that, 50 years later, is still funny and inspiring, and makes me think ... What kind of comedy would I be doing if I hadn't seen Sid Caesar? Would I be a comedian at all?[48]}}

He was predeceased by his wife, Florence (2010) and survived by his children Karen, Michelle, and Rick, and two grandsons. His interment was at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery. He had 3 children: Karen, Michelle and Dr Richard (Rick) Caesar (died 2014).[49]

Awards and honors

Year Award Result
1948 Donaldson Award for Male Debut in a Musical[15] {{won}}
1951 Emmy Award, Most Outstanding Personality[50] {{nom}}
Emmy Award, Best Actor[50] {{nom}}
Look magazine Best Comedian on TV[13] {{won}}
1952 Emmy Award, Best Actor[50] {{won}}
Emmy Award, Best Comedian or Comedienne[50] {{nom}}
1953 Emmy Award, Best Comedian[50] {{nom}}
1954 Emmy Award, Best Male Star of Regular Series[50] {{nom}}
1956 Emmy Award, Best Comedian[50] {{nom}}
Look magazine Best Comedian on TV[13] {{won}}
1957 Emmy Award, Best Continuing Performance by a Comedian in a Series[50] {{won}}
1958 Emmy Award, Best Continuing Performance (Male) in a Series[50] {{nom}}
1960 Hollywood Walk of Fame[51]Inducted}}
1963 Tony Award, Best Leading Actor in a Musical[21] {{nom}}
1985 Television Academy Hall of Fame[52]Inducted}}
1987 British Comedy Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award in ComedyHonored}}
1995 Emmy Award, Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series[50] {{nom}}
1997 Emmy Award, Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series[50] {{nom}}
2001 Television Critics Association Career Achievement Award[53]Honored}}
2005 DVD Exclusive Award, Best Supporting Actor in a DVD Premiere Movie[54] {{won}}
2006 TV Land Pioneer Award [55]Honored}}
2011 Television Critics Association Lifetime Achievement Award[56]Honored}}

In 2005, the Humane Society of the United States honored Caesar by establishing the "Sid Caesar Award for Television Comedy" among the Genesis Awards given annually to individuals in major news and entertainment media who produce outstanding works that raise public awareness of animal issues.[57] In announcing the 2014 Genesis Award winners on February 14, 2014, the Society paid special homage to Caesar, whom the Society credited as one of its most dedicated supporters.[58]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1946Tars and SparsChuck Enders
1947The Guilt of Janet AmesSammy Weaver
1963It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad WorldMelville Crump
1966The Mouse That RoaredDuchess / Mountjoy / TullyTelevision film
1967The Busy BodyGeorge Norton
1967A Guide for the Married ManMan at Romanoff's
1967The Spirit Is WillingBen Powell-1968The Lucy Show. Lucy and Sid Caesar
1973Ten from Your Show of Shows{{unknown}}Also writer
1974Airport 1975Barney
1976Silent MovieStudio Chief
1977Flight to HolocaustGeorge BeamTelevision film
1977Fire SaleSherman
1977Curse of the Black WidowLazlo CozartTelevision film
1978The Cheap DetectiveEzra Dezire
1978GreaseCoach Calhoun
1978Barnaby and MeLeo FiskTelevision film
1980The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu ManchuJoe Capone
1980Dorothy in the Land of OzWizard / Mince PieVoice
1981The Munsters' RevengeDr. Dustin DiabloTelevision film
1981Part IChief Caveman
1982Grease 2Coach Calhoun
1984Over the Brooklyn BridgeUncle Benjamin
1984Cannonball Run IIFisherman #2
1985Love Is Never SilentMr. PetrakisTelevision film
1985Alice In WonderlandThe GryphonTelevision film
1986StoogemaniaDoctor Fixyer Mindyer
1986Christmas SnowSnyderTelevision film
1987The Emperor's New ClothesThe Emperor
1988Freedom FighterMaxTelevision film
1988Side by SideLouis HammersteinTelevision film
1995The Great Mom SwapPapa Tognetti
1997Vegas VacationMr. Ellis
1998The Wonderful Ice Cream SuitSid Zellman
2000GlobehuntersJacobVoice
2004The MovieOld Army Buddy(final film role)

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1950–54Your Show of ShowsHimself (Regular Performer)139 episodes
1954Producers' ShowcaseNapoleon Bonaparte / HimselfEpisode: "Dateline"
1954–57Caesar's HourHimself (Host)Also composer
1958Sid Caesar Invites YouHimself13 episodes
1958The All-Star Christmas ShowHimselfTelevision special
1959Some of Manie's FriendsHimselfTelevision special
1959The United States Steel Hour{{unknown}}2 episodes
1961General Electric TheaterNick LuciferEpisode: "The Devil You Say"
1961CheckmateJohnny WilderEpisode: "Kill the Sound"
1962As Caesar Sees ItHimselfTelevision special
1963–64The Sid Caesar ShowHimself (Host)
1966–70The Hollywood Palace'Himself (Host)
1966–70The Dean Martin Show'HimselfAlso composer
1967The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris SpecialHimselfTelevision special
1967The Danny Thomas HourGregoryEpisode: "Instant Money"
1968That GirlMarty NickelsEpisode: "The Drunkard"
1969–71Love, American StyleBert / John Smith2 episodes
1975When Things Were RottenMarquis de la SalleEpisode: "The French Dis-connection"
1976Good HeavensHerman MeltzerEpisode: "Herman Meltzer"
1978Vega$The GeneralEpisode: "Mother Mishkin"
1978–84The Love BoatBert Multon / Michael Harmon2 episodes
1979Intergalactic ThanksgivingKing GoochiVoice; television special
1981The Misadventures of Sheriff LoboThe BomberEpisode: "Another Day, Another Bomb"
1982Matt HoustonPrince Sergei PolanskyEpisode: "Recipe for Murder"
1985Amazing StoriesAmazing Stories (TV series)Episode: "Mr. Magic"
1986Sesame StreetLove & War (TV series)Episode: "#18.19"
1995Love & WarMr. Stein2 episodes
1997Life with LouieMarty KazooVoice
1997Mad About YouUncle HaroldEpisode: "Citizen Buchman"
2001Whose Line Is It Anyway?HimselfSeason 4 Episode 15

See also

  • Wayne Lamb, dancer in the revue Make Mine Manhattan

References

1. ^{{YouTube|78KZl_j8YiM|"Sid Caesar remembered as one of TV s early kings of comedy"}}, CBS This Morning, Feb. 13, 2014
2. ^cite web|url=http://jgsgw.org/SidCaeserArticle.pdf
3. ^U.S. Census 1920, Yonkers, NY, enumerator's district 205, page 15A, and U.S. Census 1930, Yonkers, NY, enumerator's district 60-3, p. 6A
4. ^{{cite book | work=St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture |title=Sid Caesar | first=Susan| last=Murray | editor1 = Tom Pendergast |editor2=Sara Pendergast | publisher= St.James Press | year=2013 | isbn= 978-1558628472}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/70/Sid-Caesar.html |title=Sid Caesar Biography (1922–) |publisher=Filmreference.com |accessdate=2013-12-26}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ilw.com/articles/2005,0808-smith.shtm#bio|title=American Names: Declaring Independence|author=Marian L. Smith|work=Immigration Daily}}
7. ^{{cite news |url=http://forward.com/articles/192680/sid-caesar-brought-jewish-humor-to-middle-america/ |title=Sid Caesar, Brought Jewish Humor to Middle America, Dies at 91|work=The Jewish Daily Forward |date=2014-02-12 |accessdate=2014-02-13 | archivedate=February 16, 2014| deadurl = no | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20140216004421/http://forward.com/articles/192680/sid-caesar-brought-jewish-humor-to-middle-america/}}
8. ^{{cite news |first=Patricia |last=Brennan |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/sid-caesar-dies-pathbreaking-comedian/2014/02/12/f2e37274-9423-11e3-b46a-5a3d0d2130da_story.html |title=Sid Caesar dies; pathbreaking comedian |work=The Washington Post |date=February 12, 2014 |accessdate=2014-02-13 |archivedate=February 16, 2014 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6NPwtIJkQ?url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/sid-caesar-dies-pathbreaking-comedian/2014/02/12/f2e37274-9423-11e3-b46a-5a3d0d2130da_story.html |df= }}
9. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 {{cite book|title=Caesar's Hours: My Life in Comedy, with Love and Laughter|year=2004|author=Sid Caesar|author2=Eddy Friedfeld |isbn=9781586481520}}
10. ^{{cite news |last=Gennis |first=Sadie |url=http://www.tvguide.com/News/Sid-Caesar-Dies-1077640.aspx |title=Comedian Sid Caesar Dies at 91 |work=TV Guide |accessdate=2014-02-13 |archivedate=February 16, 2014 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6NPxPzvRb?url=http://www.tvguide.com/News/Sid-Caesar-Dies-1077640.aspx |df= }}
11. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.uscg.mil/history/faqs/sidcaesar.asp |title=Frequently Asked Questions: Sid Caesar |publisher=United States Coast Guard |accessdate=2013-12-26 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6NPxXrHo8?url=http://www.uscg.mil/history/faqs/sidcaesar.asp |archivedate=February 16, 2014 |deadurl=no |df= }}
12. ^{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5jr9L--C4tMC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=sid+caesar+married+July+17,+1943&source=bl&ots=ZR1TtYw7h8&sig=nZSrQlYGG5_N9kgQhFr196k9zos&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2er8Up2FKZG7oQSk0oGQBQ&ved=0CF8Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=sid%20caesar%20married%20July%2017%2C%201943&f=false | title= The Great Clowns of American Television| first= Karin | last= Adir | publisher = McFarland & Company | year = 2001 | page=64| isbn=978-0786413034}}
13. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web |url=http://www.museum.tv/eotv/caesarsid.htm |quote=|accessdate=2014-02-12 |title=Sid Caesar |publisher=Museum of Broadcast Communications | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20140216005056/http://www.museum.tv/eotv/caesarsid.htm | archivedate=February 16, 2014| deadurl = no}}
14. ^video: {{YouTube|UkMl3-Rmjt8|Sid Caesar performing "Sing, Sing, Sing" with Benny Goodman and his orchestra}}
15. ^1 {{cite news|author=Richard Natale |url=https://variety.com/2014/tv/news/sid-caesar-master-of-tv-comedy-dies-at-91-1201100019/ |title=Sid Caesar Dead, Iconic Comedian Dies At 91 |publisher=Variety |date=2014-02-12 |accessdate=2014-02-13}}
16. ^1 Day, Patrick Kevin. "Sid Caesar: Five TV clips that demonstrate his comic genius" Los Angeles Times, February 12, 2014
17. ^{{cite book|last = Brooks|first = Tim|authorlink = Tim Brooks (television historian)|author2=Marsh, Earle |title = The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present Eighth Edition|publisher = Ballantine Books|year = 2003|page = 13|isbn = 0-345-45542-8}}
18. ^1 2 Brooks, Marsh, p. 1344.
19. ^Brooks, Marsh, pp. 1068–69.
20. ^{{cite news |title=A.B.C.-TV TO DROP '77 SUNSET STRIP' / Also Discontinuing 3 Other Series Before April|work=The New York Times, p.41|author=Adams, Val|date=January 1, 1964|accessdate=November 18, 2018| url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1964/01/01/106930685.html?pageNumber=41}}
21. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www2.broadwayworld.com/tonyawardsyear.cfm?year=1963# |title=1963 Tony Award Winners |publisher=BroadwayWorld.com |accessdate=2014-02-12}}
22. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 {{cite book |last1= Nachman |first1=Gerald |author-link1= Gerald Nachman (journalist) |title=Seriously Funny |script-title=The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s|url=http://geraldnachman.com/about.html |location=New York, NY |publisher=Pantheon Books |publication-date=2003 | pages= 99–122 |isbn= 9780375410307 |oclc=50339527 |trans-title= |author-mask1= |date= |year= |orig-year= |editor1-last= |editor1-first= |editor1-link= |editor1-mask= |display-editors= |type= |language= |edition= |page= |access-date= |quote= |postscript= |ref= }}
23. ^Newcomb, Horace, editor. Encyclopedia of Television volume 1, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers (1997) pp. 272–274
24. ^{{YouTube|9QSvGnDd4m4|"Sid Caesar & Nannette Fabry - Argument to Beethoven's 5th"}}, video clip
25. ^{{YouTube|zAfphVDJems|"Sid Caesar on Dick Clark's Life Wednesday show"}}, 1978
26. ^1 {{cite news |last=Dobuzinskis |first=Alex |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/12/us-sidcaesar-idUSBREA1B20H20140212 |title=Comic legend Sid Caesar dies at 91 |publisher=Reuters |accessdate=2014-02-13}}
27. ^{{YouTube|2SqEmkwADmY|"Sid Caesar performing in four different languages"}}, video clip
28. ^{{cite news |last=Keveney |first=Bill |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/2008-01-08-sid-caesar_N.htm |title=Sid Caesar is the showman of showmen who keeps on laughing |publisher=USA Today |date=2008-01-09 |accessdate=2014-02-13}}
29. ^{{YouTube|5m6Czgl1acU|"Sid Caesar as "The German General"}}, video clip
30. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/13/arts/television/sid-caesar-comic-who-blazed-tv-trail-dies-at-91.html | title = Sid Caesar, Comedian of Comedians From TV’s Early Days, Dies at 91| work = The New York Times | first= Mervyn | last= Rothstein | first2=Peter | last2=Keepnews | date= February 12, 2014 | accessdate= 2014-02-13}}
31. ^{{YouTube|N-gOQp1Iddc|"Sid Caesar in "This Is Your Story"}}, video clip
32. ^{{cite news |last=Margolick |first=David |url=http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/02/sid-caesars-finest-sketch.html |title=Sid Caesar's Finest 'Your Show of Shows' Sketch |publisher=The New Yorker |accessdate=2014-02-14}}
33. ^1 Maslon, Laurence. Make'em Laugh, Hachette Book Group (2008) pp. 75–79
34. ^Murray, pp. 408–409
35. ^Chicago Daily News, July 23, 1973
36. ^"Sid Caesar, Once Shining TV Star Makes Rare Appearance Tonight," Nashua Telegraph, 2 April 1974, p. 17
37. ^{{cite web | url = http://snltranscripts.jt.org/82/82l.phtml | title = Air Date: February 5th, 1983 — Host: Sid Caesar | publisher= SNL Transcripts | accessdate= 2014-02-12}}
38. ^Vettel, Phil. "Et Tu, Sid Caesar (exercise Guru, Too)." 09 Aug 1985: The Chicago Tribune.  
39. ^Metropolitan Opera Archives. Accessed May 15, 2013.
40. ^{{cite web|url=http://caesarswriters.com/about/ |title=Caesar's Writers | About |publisher=Caesarswriters.com |date=1996-01-24 |accessdate=2013-12-26}}
41. ^{{cite news |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/07/lkl.00.html |title=Larry King Live Transcript: "Hail Sid Caesar" |publisher=CNN |date=2001-09-07 |accessdate=2014-02-16}}
42. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.in70mm.com/news/2003/mad_world/index.htm |title="It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" 40th anniversary |publisher=In70mm.com |date=2003-10-19 |accessdate=2013-12-26}}
43. ^1 {{cite web | url = http://www.tvland.com/sitemap/video/awards.jhtml| title= TV Land Awards | publisher= TV Land | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070911165202/http://www.tvland.com/sitemap/video/awards.jhtml | archivedate= September 11, 2007}}
44. ^{{cite news |url=http://tolucantimes.info/section/inside-this-issue/florence-caesar/ |title=Florence Caesar |publisher=The Tolucan Times |date=2009-11-11 |accessdate=2014-02-14 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222212436/http://tolucantimes.info/section/inside-this-issue/florence-caesar/ |archivedate=2014-02-22 |df= }}
45. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.tributes.com/show/Florence-L.-Caesar-88156927 |title=Florence Caesar Obituary - Beverly Hills, California |publisher=Tributes.com |accessdate=2014-02-14}}
46. ^1 2 {{cite news |last=McLellan |first=Dennis |url=http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-et-st-sid-caesar-pioneer-of-live-television-comedy-dies-at-91-20140212,0,5712035.story#axzz2t8zjLAHB |title=Sid Caesar, pioneer of live television comedy, dies at 91 |work=Los Angeles Times |date= February 12, 2014 |accessdate=2014-02-12}}
47. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-february-12-2014/moment-of-zen---sid-caesar-tribute |title=Sid Caesar Tribute - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 02/12/14 (Video Clip) |publisher=TheDailyShow.com |date=2014-02-12 |accessdate=2014-02-14}}
48. ^{{cite news |last=Crystal |first=Billy |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/sid-caesar-billy-crystal |title=All Hail Caesar |work=Vanity Fair |date=August 2005 |accessdate=2014-02-13}}
49. ^Friend
50. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 {{cite web | url = http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominations/award-search?search_api_views_fulltext=Sid+Caesar&submit=Search&search_api_views_fulltext_1=&search_api_views_fulltext_3=&search_api_views_fulltext_2=&search_api_views_fulltext_4=&field_nominations_year=1949-01-01+00%3A00%3A00&field_nominations_year_1=2014-01-01+00%3A00%3A00&field_nomination_category=All | title = Sid Caesar [Awards and Nominations] | publisher = Academy of Television Arts & Sciences | accessdate=2014-02-12}}
51. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.walkoffame.com/sid-caesar |title=Sid Caesar: Hollywood Walk of Fame |publisher=Hollywood Chamber of Commerce |accessdate=2014-02-13}}
52. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/hall-of-fame-honorees |title=Hall of Fame Honorees: Complete List |publisher=Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |date=2013-11-13 |accessdate=2014-02-13}}
53. ^{{cite web |url=http://tvcritics.org/2001/07/21/2001-tca-awards-announcement/ |title=2001 TCA Awards announcement |publisher=Television Critics Association |date=2001-07-21 |accessdate=2014-02-13 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6HVLbFXGQ?url=http://tvcritics.org/2001/07/21/2001-tca-awards-announcement/ |archivedate=2013-06-20 |df= }}
54. ^{{cite web |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050306192743/http://www.dvdexclusive.com/awards_home.asp |url=http://www.dvdexclusive.com/awards_home.asp |title=Nominees and Winners of the 2005 DVD Exclusive Awards|publisher=DVDExclusive.com |date=2005-02-08 |accessdate=2014-02-14 |archivedate=2005-03-06}}
55. ^[https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0001221/2006 TV Land Awards 2006 – Pioneer Award]
56. ^{{cite news |last=Rhodan |first=Maya |url=http://entertainment.time.com/2014/02/12/comedian-sid-caesar-dies-at-91/ |title=Sid Caesar Dies at 91 |work=Time |date=2014-01-31 |accessdate=2014-02-13}}
57. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.humanesociety.org/about/departments/hollywood/genesis/ |title=The Genesis Awards |publisher=The Humane Society of the United States |date=2013-03-23 |accessdate=2014-02-16}}
58. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.humanesociety.org/about/events/genesis_awards/2014-winners.html |title=Winners of the 2014 Genesis Awards |publisher=The Humane Society of the United States |date=2014-02-14 |accessdate=2014-02-16}}

Further reading

  • Sid Caesar and Eddy Friedfeld: Caesar's Hours: My Life in Comedy, with Love and Laughter, January 30, 2005. {{ISBN|978-1586481520}}

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  • Sid Caesar at the Comedy Hall of Fame
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