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Sydney Hughes Greenstreet (December 27, 1879 – January 18, 1954) was a British and American actor. While he did not begin his career in films until the age of 61, he had a run of significant motion pictures in a Hollywood career lasting through the 1940s.
Sydney Greenstreet. Actor: The Maltese Falcon. Sydney Greenstreet's father was a leather merchant with eight children. Sydney left home at age 18 to make his fortune as a Ceylon tea planter, but drought forced him out of business and back to England.
Sydney Greenstreet. Actor: The Maltese Falcon. Sydney Greenstreet's father was a leather merchant with eight children. Sydney left home at age 18 to make his fortune as a Ceylon tea planter, but drought forced him out of business and back to England. He managed a brewery and, to escape boredom, took acting lessons.
Sydney Hughes Greenstreet (27 December 1879 – 18 January 1954) was an English actor. He is best known for his Warner Bros. films with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre, which include The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Casablanca (1942).
Jun 13, 2019 · Born December 27, 1879 in Sandwich, Kent, England, Sydney Greenstreet was one of seven children of Ann (née Baker) and John Jarvis Greenstreet, a tanner. He left home at the age of 18 to make his fortune as a tea planter in Ceylon, but drought forced him out of business.
Apr 30, 2021 · Greenstreet is the superintendent of Scotland Yard and takes responsibility when an innocent man is convicted of murder and hanged. He loses the job he loved and was good at. But the disgraced superintendent, with the quiet assistance of Lorre as his friend, sets out to make his successor as superintendent look bad by—spoiler alert for a ...
Nov 19, 2015 · Sydney Greenstreet, who battled kidney disease and diabetes, died in 1954 at age 74. Despite a brief acting career, he created a pantheon of memorable characters.
Sydney Greenstreet was one of Hollywood's most brilliant character actors, able to play rogues whose villainy in movies like 'Casablanca' and 'The Maltese Falcon' remain among the cleverest and most memorable depictions of innate menace ever captured on film.
Portly English actor with a uniqely insinuating style of line delivery who made a sensational screen debut as the cunning Kaspar Guttman in John Huston's "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) at age 61.
Oct 18, 2021 · Sydney Greenstreet, making his debut as TCM Star of the Month this November, belongs to that rare breed – the character actor who became a star. He joined such players as Claude Rains, Thelma Ritter, and Greenstreet cohort Peter Lorre in moving from background figures to box-office attractions in their own rights.
