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Sydney Hughes Greenstreet (December 27, 1879 – January 18, 1954)[1] was a British-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 his Warner Bros. films with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre, including The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), and Passage to Marseille (1944). He portrayed Nero Wolfe on radio during 1950 and 1951. He became a United States citizen in 1925.[2]

Sydney Greenstreet
Greenstreet in NBC radio's The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe (1950)
Born	Sydney Hughes Greenstreet (1879-12-27)December 27, 1879 Eastry, Kent, England, U.K.
Died	January 18, 1954(1954-01-18) (aged 74) Hollywood, California, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1902–1951
Spouse	Dorothy Marie Ogden ​ (m. 1918)​
Children	1

Early life

Sidney Hughes Greenstreet was born on December 27, 1879, 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]

Career

Greenstreet's stage debut was as a murderer in a 1902 production of a Sherlock Holmes story at the Marina Theatre, Ramsgate, Kent.^{[citation needed]} He toured Britain with Ben Greet's Shakespearean company, and in 1905 made his New York City debut in Everyman.[4] He appeared in such plays as a revival of As You Like It (1914).[5] He appeared in numerous plays in Britain and America, working through most of the 1930s with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne at the Theatre Guild. His stage roles 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] In Casablanca (1942), Greenstreet played crooked club owner Signor Ferrari (for which he received a salary of $3,750 per week—equivalent to $60,179.91 in 2020 dollars—for seven weeks' work). He also appeared in Background to Danger (1943), with George Raft; Passage to Marseille (1944), reuniting with Casablanca stars Bogart, Peter Lorre and Claude Rains; The Mask of Dimitrios (1944); The Conspirators (1944) with Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid; Hollywood Canteen (1944); Conflict (1945), again with Bogart; Three Strangers (1946); and The Verdict (1946). In the last two, and The Mask of Dimitrios, he received top billing. He had dramatic roles, such as William Makepeace Thackeray in Devotion (1946), and witty performances in screwball comedies, such as Alexander Yardley in Christmas in Connecticut (1944). Near the end of his film career, he 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 1950–1951, Greenstreet played Nero Wolfe on the radio program The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe, based loosely on the rotund detective genius created by Rex Stout.

Death and legacy

Greenstreet suffered from diabetes and Bright's disease, a kidney disorder.[1] Five years after leaving films, he died in 1954 in Hollywood owing 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 (1920–2004), from his marriage to Dorothy Marie Ogden. Actor Mark Greenstreet is his great-nephew.^{[citation needed]}

Academy Award nomination

Year	Film	Category	Result
1941[7]	The Maltese Falcon	Best Supporting Actor	Nominated

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1941	The Maltese Falcon	Kasper Gutman	Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1941	They Died with Their Boots On	Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott
1942	Across the Pacific	Dr. Lorenz
1942	Casablanca	Signor Ferrari
1943	Background to Danger	Col. Robinson
1944	Passage to Marseille	Major Duval
1944	Between Two Worlds	Rev. Tim Thompson
1944	The Mask of Dimitrios	Mr. Peters
1944	The Conspirators	Ricardo Quintanilla
1944	Hollywood Canteen	Himself
1945	Pillow to Post	Col. Michael Otley
1945	Conflict	Dr. Mark Hamilton
1945	Christmas in Connecticut	Alexander Yardley
1946	Three Strangers	Jerome K. Arbutny
1946	Devotion	William Makepeace Thackeray
1946	The Verdict	Supt. George Edward Grodman
1947	That Way with Women	James P. Alden
1947	The Hucksters	Evan Llewellyn Evans
1948	Ruthless	Buck Mansfield
1948	The Woman in White	Count Alessandro Fosco
1948	The Velvet Touch	Capt. Danbury
1949	Flamingo Road	Sheriff Titus Semple
1949	It's a Great Feeling	Himself	Uncredited
1949	Malaya	The Dutchman	final film role

References

Further reading

• Alistair, Rupert (2018). "Sydney Greenstreet". The Name Below the Title : 65 Classic Movie Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age (softcover) (First ed.). Great Britain: Independently published. pp. 107–110. ISBN 978-1-7200-3837-5.
• Sculthorpe, Derek (2018). The Life and Times of Sydney Greenstreet. Bear Manor Media. ISBN 978-1-62933-308-3.
• Youngkin, Stephen D. (2005). The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2360-7. – Contains a chapter on the professional friendship between Greenstreet and Peter Lorre.

External links

• Sydney Greenstreet at IMDb 
• Sydney Greenstreet at AllMovie
• Sydney Greenstreet at the TCM Movie Database
• Sydney Greenstreet at the British Film Institute
• Sydney Greenstreet at the Internet Broadway Database
• Sydney Greenstreet at Find a Grave

На других языках

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[de] Sydney Greenstreet

Sydney Hughes Greenstreet (* 27. Dezember 1879 in Sandwich, England; † 18. Januar 1954 in Hollywood, Kalifornien) war ein britischer Schauspieler.[1] Berühmt wurde er vor allem durch seine Rollen neben Humphrey Bogart und Peter Lorre in Die Spur des Falken und Casablanca.

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- [en] Sydney Greenstreet

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[es] Sydney Greenstreet

Sydney Hughes Greenstreet (Kent, 27 de diciembre de 1879-Hollywood, 18 de enero de 1954) fue un polifacético actor británico de cine, especializado en películas de cine negro en los años 40. Posiblemente su papel más destacado fue en la película Casablanca, interpretando al capo de los contrabandistas de la ciudad africana, el signor Ferrari. George Lucas se inspiró en él para el personaje de Jabba the Hutt en Star Wars

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[ru] Гринстрит, Сидни

Сидни Хьюз Гринстрит (англ. Sydney Hughes Greenstreet, 27 декабря 1879 года — 18 января 1954 года) — английский характерный актёр театра и кино, более всего известный ролями остроумных и обаятельных негодяев и мошенников в серии голливудских фильмов 1940-х годов.

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