Sid CaesarFilmography

The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room

Actors: Sid Caesar

Synopsis: As the producer and star of two of the most popular television comedy shows of the 1950's -- Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour -- Sid Caesar gave some of the great men of American comedy their start as writers, including Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Larry Gelbart. The Sid Caesar Read More

The Sid Caesar Collection: Magic of Live TV

Actors: Sid Caesar

Synopsis: Sid Caesar was one of the great comedy stars of television's golden age, and his two hit series, Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, are still remembered as giving a stage to some of the finest and most inventive comedy of the 1950's. The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic Of Live TV features 90 Read More

The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy

Actors: Sid Caesar

Synopsis: Sid Caesar was the star and producer of two of the landmark television comedy series of the 1950's, Your Show Of Shows and Caesar's Hour, but a large part of Caesar's gift was his eye for talent -- his cast featured Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Nannette Fabray, and Howard Morris, and his writing Read More

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Esai Morales, Edward James Olmos, Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: Fantasist Ray Bradbury wrote the screenplay for this adaptation of his 1957 Saturday Evening Post short story, "The Magic White Suit," previously adapted as a TV drama, a stage musical, and a play. Middle-aged Gomez (Joe Mantegna) hopes to own the beautiful white suit he spots in a store window. Read More

Mad About You: Citizen Buchman

Synopsis: While being interviewed on film by Paul (Paul Reiser), great-uncle Marty (Shecky Green) ruins the shot by dropping dead. Marty's garbled final words ("Hummus?" "Cow Moos?" "Hey Miss?") touches off yet another crisis in the Buchman family. Amidst a veritable smorgasbord of famous guest stars Read More

Vegas Vacation

Actors: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Ethan Embry, Wayne Newton, Marisol Nichols

Synopsis: This is the fourth in a series of movies that began with National Lampoon's Vacation in 1983 and feature the family headed by Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) going on wacky vacations. This time, the Griswolds visit Las Vegas. Clark immediately goes to the blackjack table and starts blowing all his Read More

The Great Mom Swap

Actors: Valerie Harper, Shelley Fabares, Sid Caesar, Hillary Tuck, Mary Kate Schellhardt

Synopsis: A pair of teenage girls decide to switch families for a while to prove that each of their own clans likes the other girl better. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Side by Side

Synopsis: Three giants of early television--Milton Berle, Sid Caesar and Danny Thomas--combine their talents in the made-for-TV Side by Side. Berle and Caesar play a couple of 65-year-olds who've just been forcibly retired; Thomas portrays a widower, who's been aimless and lethargic since the death of his Read More

Freedom Fighter

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Freedom Fighter is set in the divided Berlin of 1961. Tony Danza plays an idealistic American GI whose sweetheart is among those stranded in East Berlin by the erection of the Wall; he vows to help as many Easterners as possible escape to the freedom of the West. Other cast members Read More

The Emperor's New Clothes

Actors: Sid Caesar, Clive Revill, Robert Morse, Lysette Anthony, Julian Joy-Chagrin

Synopsis: This witty version of Hans Christian Anderson's moral tale of a king whose vanity makes him an easy mark for con artists, features Sid Caesar and Art Carney. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Best of Comic Relief

Love is Never Silent

Actors: Sid Caesar, Phyllis Frelich, Mare Winningham

Synopsis: In its own mild, unobtrusive manner, the made-for-TV Love is Never Silent managed to knock an all-star adaptation of Alice in Wonderland out of the ratings box when it was first telecast on December 9, 1985. Based on the Joanne Greenberg novel In This Sign, the film stars Mare Winningham as a Read More

Stoogemania

Actors: Josh Mostel, Melanie Chartoff, Mark Holton, Sid Caesar, Patrick de Santis

Synopsis: This comedy fuses Three Stooges clips with a storyline about a "Stooge Maniac" who is so obsessed with the comedians his sanity comes into question. Josh Mostel plays Stooge devotee Howard F. Howard, and Melanie Chartoff is Beverly, the woman of his dreams. Howard's condition is analyzed by Dr. Read More

Amazing Stories: Mr. Magic

Actors: Sid Caesar

Over the Brooklyn Bridge

Actors: Elliott Gould, Margaux Hemingway, Sid Caesar, Burt Young, Shelley Winters

Synopsis: A man is torn between true love and the lure of fine dining in this romantic comedy. Alby Sherman (Elliott Gould) was born and raised in Brooklyn, where he runs a coffee shop. Alby has dreams of doing bigger and better things, and he works up the courage to ask his rich Uncle Benjamin (Sid Caesar) Read More

Cannonball Run II

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Shirley MacLaine, Marilu Henner, Dean Martin

Synopsis: (Burt Reynolds) as J.J. McClure takes off across the country again in this rickety sequel to Cannonball Run. A sheik has offered $1,000,000 to the first driver to reach a destination in Connecticut from Redondo Beach, California, inspiring J.J. and others to go for the gold. With cameos from more Read More

Saturday Night Live: Sid Caesar

Actors: Sid Caesar, Joe Cocker, Jennifer

Synopsis: This 1983 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Sid Caesar and features musical guest Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

My Secret Angel

Synopsis: This comedy focuses on a bank executive and a former bank guard who access funds from inactive accounts to give to good people. (AKA Found Money) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Found Money

Actors: Sid Caesar, Richard Sanders, Dick Van Dyke

Synopsis: Two giants of American TV comedy--Dick Van Dyke and Sid Caesar--were teamed for the first (and thus far last) time in Found Money. Forced into early retirement, bank executive Max Shepherd (Van Dyke) befriends bank guard Sam Green (Caesar) who likewise has been given the sack. Since both men have Read More

Alice in Wonderland

Actors: Donald O'Connor

Synopsis: This 1982 made-for-TV version of the Lewis Carroll classic Alice in Wonderland features an all-star cast. Such celebrities as Donald O'Connor, Maureen Stapleton and Eve Arden struggle to perform while buried under mounds of makeup and tons of eccentric costuming as Carroll's alternate-world Read More

Grease 2

Actors: Maxwell Caulfield, Michelle Pfeiffer, Adrian Zmed, Christopher McDonald, Peter Frechette

Synopsis: Given the runaway success of Grease, which became the biggest-grossing movie musical of all time, it was all but inevitable that there would be a sequel, and four years later this follow-up brought a new group of kids back to Rydell High. It's 1961, and Stephanie Zinone (Michelle Pfeiffer) is the Read More

The Munsters' Revenge

Synopsis: This early-'80s made-for-TV movie includes most of the cast of the original Munsters TV series. An evil scientist creates android replicas of the Munster family in order to frame them for the robbery of an art-gallery. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

History of the World -- Part I

Actors: Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: Mel Brooks produced, directed, wrote, and starred in this episodic comedy in the spirit of Monty Python and the 1957 studio travesty The Story of Mankind. The film is divided into five sequences that play like blue-toned Eddie Cantor vaudeville sketches -- "The Dawn of Man," "The Stone Age," The Read More

Dorothy in the Land of Oz

Synopsis: The first four entries in L. Frank Baum's Oz series have in recent years fallen into public domain, which explains the plethora of animated "Wizard of Oz" productions on TV and on videocassette. Miller-Rosen Productions was the guiding force behind 1981's Dorothy in the Land of Oz. Most of the Read More

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

Actors: Peter Sellers, Helen Mirren, David Tomlinson, Sid Caesar, Simon Williams

Synopsis: Peter Sellers gets to play both hero and bad guy at the same time in this comedy variation on Sax Rohmer's infamous stories of Asian super-villian Fu Manchu. The 168-year-old Fu Manchu (Sellers) is starting to run out of the youth-preserving formula that has kept him alive and kicking for the past Read More

Pink Lady and Jeff: Episode 2

The Cheap Detective

Actors: Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan, Sid Caesar, Stockard Channing, Dom DeLuise, Louise Fletcher, John Houseman, Madeline Kahn, Scatman Crothers

Synopsis: Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre, and his own performances as a bumbling private detective, Peter Falk plays Lou Pekinpaugh, a San Francisco private detective accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress, the partner's wife, Georgia Merkle (Marsha Mason). Police Read More

Grease

Actors: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Didi Conn, Eve Arden

Synopsis: "Grease," said the poster and the Barry Gibb song, "is the word." Transferring its setting from Chicago to sunny California, and adding a dash of disco to the ersatz '50s score, producer Allan Carr and director Randal Kleiser turned this long-running Jim Jacobs - Warren Casey Broadway smash into Read More

Fire Sale

Actors: Alan Arkin, Rob Reiner, Sid Caesar, Vincent Gardenia, Anjanette Comer, Kay Medford

Synopsis: Alan Arkin directed and starred in this anarchic comedy. Benny Fikus (Vincent Gardenia) is the owner of a department store that's on its last legs, with his nebbishy son Russell (Rob Reiner) serving as his second-in-command. Benny's bother Ezra (Arkin) used to work with him at the store, but he Read More

Flight to Holocaust

Actors: Paul Williams

Synopsis: Though not readily apparent, Flight to Holocaust is the feature-length pilot film for a potential TV series. Crashing into the side of a high-rise building, an airplane is precariously wedged in the structure's 20th floor. Dispatched to rescue the survivors are a team of acrobatic troubleshooters Read More

Barnaby and Me

Actors: Juliet Mills

Synopsis: Norman Panama's penultimate directorial effort, Barnaby and Me was originally filmed for Australian television. The title character is a talented Koala Bear, who is to Australian fans what Benji is to Americans. Pausing in his escape from a vengeful mobster, American con artist Caesar falls in Read More

Curse of the Black Widow

Actors: Donna Mills, Anthony Franciosa, Patty Duke

Synopsis: This wonderfully cheesy TV movie-of-the-week stars Tony Franciosa as a detective hot on the trail of a murderer whose mutilated and predominantly male victims are found encased in silken cocoons. He eventually tracks the killer's path to Los Angeles, where he discovers her true identity -- a woman Read More

Silent Movie

Actors: Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Bernadette Peters, Sid Caesar

Synopsis: Silent Movie is just that: a totally nonverbal comedy, save for one single line. Director Mel Brooks stars as a once-famous comedy director, who with his faithful assistants Dom DeLuise and Marty Feldman return to Hollywood with plans for a comeback. Brooks wants to return to the good old days by Read More

When Things Were Rotten

Synopsis: Taken from the television series "When Things Were Rotten," this collection includes three episodes from the Mel Brooks Robin Hood spoof. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Airport 1975

Actors: Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Susan Clark

Synopsis: In the wake of the 45-million-dollar gross of the original Airport (1970), Universal was all but required by an act of Congress to produce Airport '75. Charlton Heston heads the all-star cast as Alan Murdock, the former test pilot who must keep a disabled 747 from crashing in flames. The crisis Read More

Ten From Your Show of Shows

The Lucy Show: Lucy and Sid Caesar

Actors: Sid Caesar, Jack Collins, Carole Cook, Irwin Charone

Synopsis: Sid Caesar pulls double duty in this episode, playing "himself" and his lookalike, Frankie the Forger. Upset that Frankie is going around time forging checks with his name, Sid conspires with Lucy (Lucille Ball) to catch the crook in the act. Alas, Lucy is so confused by the plethora of Caesars Read More

The Spirit Is Willing

Actors: Sid Caesar, Vera Miles, Barry J. Gordon, John McGiver, Cass Daley

Synopsis: In this spooky comedy, a couple and their adolescent son move into a quiet New England summer cottage. Soon their arrival, a series of strange and increasingly destructive occurrences begin to happen. Not believing in poltergeists, the puzzled parents immediately suspect their son. The real Read More

The Busybody

Actors: Sid Caesar, Robert Ryan, Anne Baxter, Kay Medford, Jan Murray

Synopsis: A nosey housewife (Marguerite Viby) takes on extra responsibilities when her husband (Buster Larsen) hurts his back while reading the Sunday paper. When she finds a dead body in the upstairs office, she calls the police. The detective (Ole Monty) is summoned, and he discovers the woman is his old Read More

A Guide for the Married Man

Actors: Walter Matthau, Robert Morse, Inger Stevens, Sue Ane Langdon, Claire Kelly

Synopsis: Ed Stander (Robert Morse), with the help of an all-star cast, teaches Paul Manning (Walter Matthau) the fine art of philandering in A Guide for the Married Man. Paul, happily married to sexy Ruth (Inger Stevens), has no burning desire to cheat, but Ed makes the prospect sound very attractive. Read More

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers, Dick Shawn, Jimmy Durante, Buster Keaton

Synopsis: With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies." The story begins during a massive traffic jam, caused by reckless driver Smiler Grogan (Jimmy Durante), who, before (literally) kicking the bucket, cryptically tells the Read More

The All-Star Christmas Show

Actors: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, George Burns, Milton Berle, Jack Benny

Synopsis: Produced for the Armed Forces overseas, this is a holiday spectacular created for Christmas. Fifty of the top stars of Hollywood in the 1950s turned out to be a part of this special. Some of these included: Bob Hope, George Burns, Bing Crosby, Danny Thomas, Dinah Shore, Shirley MacLaine, and Jane Russell Read More

Caesar's Hour: Season 03

Actors: Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Shirl Conway, Pat Carroll, Janet Blair

Caesar's Hour: Season 02

Actors: Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Nanette Fabray, Sandra Deel, Ellen Parker

Caesar's Hour: Season 01

Actors: Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Nanette Fabray, Virginia Curtis, Ellen Parker

Dateline

Actors: John Daly, H.V. Kaltenborn, Sid Caesar, Ben Grauer, Martha Raye

Your Show of Shows, Vol. 4

Your Show of Shows, Vol. 5

Your Show of Shows, Vol. 2

Your Show of Shows, Vol. 3

Your Show of Shows, Vol. 6

Your Show of Shows, Vol. 1

Your Show of Shows, Vol. 8

Your Show of Shows, Vol. 7

Admiral Broadway Revue

The Guilt of Janet Ames

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Melvyn Douglas, Sid Caesar, Betsy Blair, Nina Foch

Synopsis: In this drama, a soldier's widow, whose husband died a hero in WW II, begins a quest to find the five men whose lives were saved when her husband sacrificed his own life by taking the brunt of a hand grenade blast. Her search begins two years after the war's end, and is an attempt to see if the Read More

Tars and Spars

Actors: Janet Blair, Alfred Drake, Marc Platt, Jeff Donnell, Sid Caesar

Synopsis: The watery world of the Coast Guard provides the setting for this musical that is loosely based on the famed Guard show Tars and Spars and makes fun of war movies. The story centers on the exploits of a heroic sailor who has never been to sea. Look for former Coast Guard sailor Sid Caesar in his Read More