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| name = Sydney Greenstreet | image = Sydney Greenstreet headshot.jpg | caption = Greenstreet in Casablanca (1942) | birth_name = Sydney Hughes Greenstreet | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1879|12|27}} | birth_place = Sandwich, Kent, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1954|01|18|1879|12|27}} | death_place = Hollywood, California, US | resting_place = Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1902–1951 | spouse = Dorothy Marie Ogden (1918–1954; his death) | children = 1 }}Sydney Hughes Greenstreet (27 December 1879 – 18 January 1954)[1] was a British actor. While he did not work in films until the age of 61, he had a run of significant motion pictures in a Hollywood career lasting for under a decade. He is best remembered for his Warner Bros. films with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre, which include The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), and Passage to Marseille (1944). He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1925. He portrayed Nero Wolfe on radio from 1950 to 1951.[2] | align = right | direction = vertical | width = 260 | image1 = GutmanCairoMaltFalc1941Trailer.jpg | width1 = | alt1 = | caption1 = Greenstreet and Peter Lorre in The Maltese Falcon (1941) | image2 = Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet in Casablanca crop.jpg | width2 = | alt2 = | caption2 = Greenstreet and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca (1942) | image3 =Casablanca, Sydney Greenstreet.JPG | width3 = | alt3 = | caption3 =Greenstreet in Casablanca (1942) | image4 =Wolfe-Greenstreet-1950.jpg | width4 = | alt4 = | caption4 =Greenstreet in NBC radio's The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe (1950–51) }} Early lifeGreenstreet was born in Sandwich, Kent,[1] the son of Ann (née Baker) and John Jarvis Greenstreet, a tanner. He had seven siblings. He left home at the age of 18 to make his fortune as a Ceylon tea planter, but drought forced him out of business. He began managing a brewery and, to escape boredom, took acting lessons.[3] CareerGreenstreet's stage debut was as a murderer in a 1902 production of a Sherlock Holmes story at the Marina Theatre, Ramsgate, Kent.{{Citation needed|date=September 2018}} He toured Britain with Ben Greet's Shakespearean company, and in 1905, he made his New York City debut in Everyman.[4] Thereafter he appeared in such plays as a revival of As You Like It (1914).[5] Greenstreet appeared in numerous plays in Britain and America, working through most of the 1930s with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne at the Theatre Guild. Throughout his stage career, his parts ranged from musical comedy to Shakespeare, and years of such versatile acting on two continents led to many offers to appear in films. He refused until he was 61. In 1941, Greenstreet began working for Warner Bros. His debut film role was as Kasper Gutman ("The Fat Man") co-starring with Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon.[1] The film also featured Peter Lorre, as the twitchy Joel Cairo, a pairing that would prove durable. The two men appeared in some nine films altogether, including Casablanca (1942), with Greenstreet as crooked club owner Signor Ferrari (for which he received a salary of $3,750 per week for seven weeks), as well as Background to Danger (1943, with George Raft), Passage to Marseille (1944), reteaming him with Casablanca stars Bogart, Lorre, and Claude Rains, The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), The Conspirators (1944), with Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid, Hollywood Canteen (1944), Three Strangers (1946) and The Verdict (1946). In the last two in the list, and The Mask of Dimitrios, Greenstreet received top billing. The actor played roles both in dramatic films, such as William Makepeace Thackeray in Devotion (1946) and witty performances in screwball comedies, for instance Alexander Yardley in Christmas in Connecticut (1944). Near the end of his film career, Greenstreet played opposite Joan Crawford in Flamingo Road (1949). After little more than eight years, Greenstreet's film career ended with Malaya (also 1949), in which he was billed third, after Spencer Tracy and James Stewart. In those years, he worked with stars ranging from Clark Gable to Ava Gardner to Joan Crawford. Author Tennessee Williams wrote his one-act play The Last of My Solid Gold Watches with Greenstreet in mind, and dedicated it to him. During 1950–51, Greenstreet played Nero Wolfe on the NBC radio program, The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe, based loosely on the rotund detective genius created by Rex Stout. Death and legacyGreenstreet suffered from diabetes and Bright's disease, a kidney disorder.[1] Five years after leaving films, Greenstreet died in 1954 in Hollywood due to complications from both conditions.[6] He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, in the Utility Columbarium area of the Great Mausoleum, inaccessible to the public. He was survived by his only child, John Ogden Greenstreet (30 September 1920 – 4 March 2004), from his marriage to Dorothy Marie Ogden. Actor Mark Greenstreet is a distant relative.[7] Academy Award nomination
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References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite book|last1=Donnelley|first1=Paul|title=Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries|date=2003|publisher=Music Sales Group|isbn=9780711995123|page=295|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qAhtNiAl3YsC&pg=PA295&dq=%22Sydney+Hughes+Greenstreet%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjFqr-mv4PTAhWa0YMKHaf_CY4Q6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22Sydney%20Hughes%20Greenstreet%22&f=false|accessdate=1 April 2017|language=en}} 2. ^Sydney Greenstreet's Petition for Naturalization, ancestry.com; accessed 6 October 2015. 3. ^Profile {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208155239/http://www.focusfeatures.com/article/sydney_greenstreet_born |date=8 December 2015 }}, focusfeatures.com; accessed 4 December 2015. 4. ^{{cite news |title=Film Actor Sydney Greenstreet Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23381897/sydney_greenstreet/ |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=January 20, 1954 |location=California, Los Angeles |page=27|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = September 2, 2018}} {{Open access}} 5. ^{{cite web |title=Sydney Greenstreet |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/sydney-greenstreet-67672 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |accessdate=2 September 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310010127/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/sydney-greenstreet-67672|archive-date=10 March 2018}} 6. ^Obituary, Variety, 27 January 1954, page 71. 7. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.swanseasgrand.co.uk/Swansea%20Grand%20Theatre%20Pantomime%20Archive.html | title=Swansea Grand Theatre Pantomime Archive | accessdate=15 May 2017 }} 8. ^{{cite web |title=("Sydney Greenstreet" search results) |url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/search/results |website=Academy Awards Database |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |accessdate=2 September 2018 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Further reading
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