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    Sydney Greenstreet

    British-American actor

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  2. Weight. 129 kg. Date of Birth. December 27, 1879. Zodiac Sign. Capricorn. Date of Death. January 18, 1954. Sydney Greenstreet was a British-American actor who was particularly known for his work with Warner Bros.

    • December 27, 1879
    • 129 kg
    • 5 ft 9 in
    • Capricorn
  3. Sydney Hughes Greenstreet (December 27, 1879 – January 18, 1954) [1] 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. He is best remembered for the three Warner Bros. films - The Maltese Falcon (1941 ...

  4. His film debut, occurring when he was 62 years old and weighing nearly 300 pounds, was as Kasper Guttman in the classic The Maltese Falcon (1941), with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre. He teamed with Lorre in eight more movies after that. In eight years he made 24 films, all while beset by diabetes and Bright's disease.

    • December 27, 1879
    • January 18, 1954
  5. Jun 13, 2019 · After nearly 40 years on the stage, 35 of them on Broadway, the versatile actor made his screen debut at close to 300 pounds at the age of 61 playing Kasper Gutman, one of three eccentric criminals after the priceless statuette of the title.

  6. His film debut, occurring when he was 62 years old and weighing nearly 300 pounds, was as Kasper Guttman in the classic The Maltese Falcon (1941), with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre. He teamed with Lorre in eight more movies after that. In eight years he made 24 films, all while beset by diabetes and Bright's disease.

    • January 1, 1
    • Sandwich, Kent, England, UK
    • January 1, 1
    • Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
  7. Biography by AllMovie [+] Sydney Greenstreet ranked among Hollywood's consummate character actors, a classic rogue whose villainous turns in motion pictures like Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon remain among the most memorable and enigmatic depictions of evil ever captured on film. Born December 27, 1879, in Sandwich, England, Greenstreet's ...

  8. Oct 18, 2021 · Oversized in both talent and physique (weighing in at his heaviest at over 350 pounds), Greenstreet enjoyed a singular career. Beginning as a stage actor, he did not make his film debut until age 61. Not counting a couple of cameo appearances in which he played himself, he made 22 movies during the one decade he was active onscreen, the 1940s.

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