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Sid Caesar

Sid Caesar (1922—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.

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Movies Starring Sid Caesar (58)

It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point (2023)

Worlds collide in this unconventional essay film, when filmmaker, film historian, and archivist Daniel Kremer seamlessly edits Michelangelo Antonioni's legendary but controversial counterculture art film Zabriskie Point (1970) into the same narrative unive ...

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Mel Brooks: Unwrapped (2018)

At the age of 91, Mel Brooks is unstoppable, with his musical "Young Frankenstein" opening to great critical acclaim in London in late 2017. Alan Yentob visits Mel at home in Hollywood, at work and at play. ...

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The Grease Story (2017)

The story behind the classic movie musical. The programme examines the original stage musical in the early 1970s, which starred a young Richard Gere, and the changes that occurred between stage and screen, including the addition of several new songs and to ...

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Mel Brooks: Make a Noise (2013)

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks' early years in the creative beginnings of live television — with Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows — to the film genres he so successfully satirized in Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, ...

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In the Beginning: The Caesar Years (2012)

New interviews with Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, footage from the reunion of Caesar's Writers (1996), and sketches from Your Show of Shows (1950) and Caesar's Hour (1954). ...

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Lunch (2012)

For the past 40 years, a group of comedy writers and directors has gathered every other Wednesday for lunch - and other nourishment. These are the fabled guys that made America funny. ...

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Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World (2009)

Documentary on the making of Mel Brooks' classic comedy "History of the World, Part 1. ...

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Comic Book: The Movie (2004)

Hugh Hefner, Stan Lee, Mark Hamill and Kevin Smith journey into the world of comic book fandom! Documentary filmmaker Donald Swan heads to the world's largest comic book convention where he encounters a culture of craziness that he's totally unprepared for ...

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

In search of fun and freedom, a trio of animal friends -- a bold monkey with a temper, a timid, bespectacled parrot and a lightning-fast cheetah -- escape from captivity. Their adventures take them around the world and, ultimately, straight into our hearts ...

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NBC 75th Anniversary Special (2002)

A celebration of NBC's 75 year history, featuring clips of special moments. ...

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Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story (2002)

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 Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV (2000)

One of the greatest comedians of early television, Sid Caesar hasn't had his work shown in perennial reruns, so it's especially gratifying to see a collection of his classic sketches released on video, with Caesar himself introducing the material. Besides ...

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The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room (2000)

The Big Daddy of televised comedy sketches, Sid Caesar had millions of Americans holding their sides and howling at his uproarious antics and those of his inspired sidekicks--Imogene Coca, Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris. These are compilati ...

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The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy (2000)

The Big Daddy of televised comedy sketches, Sid Caesar had millions of Americans holding their sides and howling at his uproarious antics and those of his inspired sidekicks--Imogene Coca, Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris. These are compilati ...

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Television: The First Fifty Years (1999)

Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclusive interviews from television greats like Walter Cronkite, Carol Burnett, and Jay Leno. ...

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The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998)

Gomez is a middle-aged man who dreams of buying a gorgeous white suit in a nearby store, but doesn't have enough cash. He finds 4 more people of same size, who each give $20 and get to wear the suit for an hour each in return. But the suit is not just a su ...

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Vegas Vacation (1997)

The Griswold family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy mecca of slots and showgirls—Las Vegas. ...

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Caesar's Writers (1996)

On January 24, 1996, at the Writers Guild Theater in Los Angeles, CA, legendary comic Sid Caesar was reunited with nine of his writers from Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour. The event was taped for release on PBS and BBC in a 1-hour cut, and later on V ...

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The Great Mom Swap (1995)

When two girls think the other has it better, they swap places to see who's right! ...

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

A star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. ...

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Side by Side (1988)

Three men who have just been forced to retire convince their bank to finance their dream: To produce a line of clothing for senior citizens. ...

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Wall of Tyranny (1988)

A U.S. soldier sees the Berlin Wall go up in 1961 and helps a group of East Germans escape to the West. ...

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Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987)

A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film. ...

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The Emperor's New Clothes (1987)

In Europe several several centuries ago, a group of prisoners about to be executed are freed as part of the celebration of the upcoming marriage of the emperor's daughter, Princess Gilda, to a very rich prince from another country. Sid Caesar composed the ...

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Christmas Snow (1986)

A shop owner who is being evicted at Christmas rescues her Scrooge-like landlord from an accident. ...

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Stoogemania (1986)

The film centers on Howard F. Howard, an overweight everyman. Engaged to Beverly, the woman of his dreams, Howard has one problem - an overactive fixation with The Three Stooges. Everywhere Howard goes, he sees Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard intru ...

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Love Is Never Silent (1985)

A young woman struggles with her own need for independence and the obligation she feels for her deaf parents in this depression-era drama. A friend sees her turmoil and tells her she must find happiness on her own. However, the initial joy she finds in mar ...

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All Star Party for Lucille Ball (1984)

A tribute to Lucille ball, with an humanitarian award for her quest to end juvenile diabetes. ...

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Cannonball Run II (1984)

When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one person crazy enough to hit the road hard with wheels spinning fast. Legendary driver J.J. McClure enters the competition along with his friend Victor and tog ...

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Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984)

A put-upon Jewish deli owner in Brooklyn dreams of getting out from underneath the thumb of his domineering father and his haughty fashion-model girlfriend by buying his own restaurant in midtown Manhattan. ...

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Found Money (1983)

Two former bank employees, executive Dick Van Dyke, forced into early retirement by a computer, and guard Sid Caesar, unceremoniously dismissed before his pension comes due, concoct a computerized scheme to steal from the rich (i.e. the bank) and give to t ...

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Grease 2 (1982)

It's 1961, two years after the original Grease gang graduated, and there's a new crop of seniors and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington is the new kid in school - but he's been branded a brainiac. ...

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History of the World: Part I (1981)

An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition. ...

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The Munsters' Revenge (1981)

The lovable Munster family finds their placid world turned into turmoil by the diabolical Dr. Diablo, the mastermind of an art heist using monster robots, including clones of Herman and Grandpa. ...

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Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz (1980)

Dorothy is carried back to Oz by a green turkey balloon on the final Thanksgiving she is to spend with her aunt and uncle, who are moving to a retirement community. She meets Jack Pumpkinhead, The Hungry Tiger, and Tic Toc (sic), and must stop the evil Tyr ...

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The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)

Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhi ...

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Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet (1979)

With a new twist on an old holiday, Intergalatic Thanksgiving or Please Don't Eat the Planet is a delightful animated special combining space age fantasy with the old and revered traditions that make Thanksgiving a great festive holiday. ...

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America 2100 (1979)

Two everyday schlubs are inadvertently frozen for 120 years, awakening to a wacky future run by a robot named MAX. Pilot episode for unproduced series. ...

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Grease (1978)

Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends? ...

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The Cheap Detective (1978)

A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife. ...

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Curse of the Black Widow (1977)

Tony Franciosa plays a detective who's on the trail of a murderer whose mutilated and predominantly male victims are found encased in silken cocoons... ...

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Barnaby and Me (1977)

Barnaby and Me is a 1978 Australian TV movie about a girl and her talking koala who are pursued by criminals. ...

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Fire Sale (1977)

Benny and his wife Ruthie are getting set to drive down to Florida, but Benny needs someone to look after his department store while he's gone. Though he doesn't think much of him, Benny hands the responsibility over to his son, Russell. While Russell does ...

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Flight to Holocaust (1977)

A team of troubleshooters is called to a skyscraper where a plane has crashed into the 20th floor and is stuck in the side of the building. ...

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Silent Movie (1976)

Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's cred ...

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Ann-Margret Smith (1975)

Book-ending the year 1975 with two big budget TV Specials, Ann -Margret also earned her second Oscar nomination that year, for Tommy. In January, "Ann-Margret Olssen" premiered and was titled with the star's maiden name. This second special premiered lat ...

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Airport 1975 (1974)

When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and ...

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Hamburgers (1974)

Comedy special starring Charlie Callas, Charles Nelson Reilly, Bobby Vinton, and many other young comedians. ...

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Ten from Your Show of Shows (1973)

Ten comedy sketches compiled from the 1950s TV series, "Your Show of Shows. ...

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The Spirit Is Willing (1967)

When Ben and Kate Powell rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts. ...

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A Guide for the Married Man (1967)

A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught. ...

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The Busy Body (1967)

Sid Caesar is a bumbling gopher to a mob boss who must recover a fortune in cash stowed in the suit of a corpse. ...

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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself. ...

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Some of Manie's Friends (1959)

A multitude of entertainment's biggest stars come together to celebrate the life of the late Manie Sacks, recording executive for Columbia Records, and vice president of both NBC and RCA. ...

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The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947)

A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war. ...

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Tars and Spars (1946)

Howard Young is a coast guardsman who has been on shore duty for three years despite his efforts to be sent into action. His nearest approach to sea duty was on a harbor-moored life raft for 21 days as part of an experiment with a new type of vitamin gum f ...

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Movies Made By Sid Caesar (3)

Woody Allen: A Documentary (2011)

An intense portrait of the iconic filmmaker, writer, actor, comedian and musician Woody Allen: his life, family and friends; his writing and directing habits, and his relationship with performers. ...

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The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV (2000)

One of the greatest comedians of early television, Sid Caesar hasn't had his work shown in perennial reruns, so it's especially gratifying to see a collection of his classic sketches released on video, with Caesar himself introducing the material. Besides ...

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The 100 Funniest Moments of the 20th Century: The Unexpected (1995)

This hilarious collection of accidental comedy is packed with unforgettable foul-ups by an all-star comedy cast, plus wedding bloopers, sports blunders and everyday snafus that add up to a laugh-a-minute! See uproarious out-takes, from the days when televi ...

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