George Sidney

George Sidney

Birth : 1876-03-18, Nagynichal, Hungary

Death : 1945-04-29

Profile

George Sidney

Movies

The Good Old Soak
Kennedy
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
Diamond Jim
Pawnbroker
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
Back to the Soil
Two friends decide to become gold prospectors, and wind up discovering an outlaw's buried treasure.
Plumbing for Gold
George and Charlie get jobs as plumbers assistants; on their first assignment, they reduce a house to shambles in search of a lost ring.
Fishing for Trouble
George and Charlie go fishing - but things don't turn out exactly as planned.
Manhattan Melodrama
Poppa Rosen
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Stable Mates
Two bankers, thrown out of work by the Depression, find jobs on a western ranch.
Radio Dough
Mr. Sidney
Two partners in a clothing store decide they want to become radio performers.
Ten Baby Fingers
Two men find a baby they think is abandoned.
Rafter Romance
Eckbaum
A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.
The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
Nathan Cohen
Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.
Hollywood on Parade No. A-8
Himself
In the Hollywood Hall of Fame - a wax museum - the figure of Eddie Borden comes to life and introduces us to various stars in effigy. Pining over the effigy of Clara Bow, her husband Rex Bell suggests that Eddie get on with Betty Boop. Betty asks Eddie to accompany her in a rendition of "My Silent Love."
The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
Nathan Cohen
The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.
The Heart of New York
Mendel Marantz
A poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side neighborhood after he sells his new invention.
Running Hollywood
Street Cleaner
Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
The Stolen Jools
Cohen
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
Caught Cheating
Sam Harris
Joe Cabrone vows to kill Sam after believing him to be having an affair with his wife.
The Cohens and the Kellys in Africa
Cohen
Cohen and Kelly families go to Africa to buy elephant tusks.
Rolling Along
Two incompetent bus drivers attempt to exact revenge on their no nonsense boss. Hilarity ensues.
Around the Corner
Kaplan
18-year-old Rosie Kaplan O'Grady was found as an abandoned baby by O'Grady, an Irish policeman, and Kaplan, a Jewish pawnbroker, and raised by them as their own. She is being courted by two men; prizefighter Terry Callahan and a rich socialite, Tommy Sinclair and has to choose between them.
Give and Take
Plant Foreman
The owner of a fruit cannery is facing financial ruin as a result of a strike. Unbeknownst to him, his son is the person who is organizing it.
We Americans
Mr. Levine
We Americans was based on the Broadway play of the same name. Returning to the "melting pot" themes that he handled so well, director Edward H. Sloman concentrates on the trials and tribulations of three first-generation American families: The Jewish Levines, the German Schmidts and the Italian Albertinis.
The Latest from Paris
Sol Blogg
The Latest from Paris takes place in New York's garment district, where business rivals Blogg and Littauer have been carrying on a feud for years. In the tradition of Romeo and Juliet, heroine Ann Dolan works for Blogg, while her sweetheart Joe Adams is employed by Littauer.
The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
The Life of Riley
Otto Meyer - Police Chief
Silent comedy film directed by William Beaudine..
For the Love of Mike
Abraham Katz
Three men join forces to raise an adopted son.
The Auctioneer
Simon Levi
Simon, a young Jewish man emigrating to the US, adopts the daughter of a dying woman on the ship. After he settles in the US, he eventually builds up a successful business as a pawnbroker and auctioneer. His adopted daughter Ruth falls in love with a young Wall Street broker, and her father invests his fortune in the young man's firm. However, a crooked broker at the firm causes Simon to lose all his money, and he must start all over again. He sets out to track down the crooked broker and get his money back.
Millionaires
Meyer Rubens
Meyer Rubens and his wife, Esther, own a pressing-shop in New York's Lower East Side. Esther wants to move on up to the Upper West Side. She has a rich sister, Reba, who persuades Meyer to invest in the worthless oil stock sold by her husband. The stock proves to be not worthless and Meyer and Esther become overnight millionaires. But Reba thinks Meyer, who has no taste for high society, is holding her sister back socially, so she devises some schemes that involve catching Meyer in a compromising situation with other women, so her sister can file for a divorce.
Sweet Daddies
Abie Finklebaum
Stage comedian Patrick O'Brien is fired from his job because of his drinking celebration of his son, Jimmy, graduating from college. After the show he meets his son on a cabaret and there meets Abel Finklestein and his daughter, Miriam, and the two fathers form a business alliance, suspected of being bootlegging. They are arrested but are released after it is found they were importing molasses - but Miriam has to promise to marry Sam Berkowitz to secure the release. Jimmy and both fathers are unhappy with this turn of events.
The Cohens and Kellys
Jacob Cohen
Jacob Cohen, who owns a dry goods store, and Patrick Kelly, an Irish cop, are constantly at loggerheads, feuding over anything and everything. Kelly's son, Tim, and Cohen's daughter, Nannie, fall in love despite the bickering of their parents; when they cannot get parental consent for their marriage, they secretly wed.
Partners Again
Abe Potash
Goldwyn produced a 1923 film adaptation of Potash and Perlmutter, and a 1924 sequel called In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter. In Partners Again the two are in the automobile industry -- This is a lost Film.
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
Abe Potash
A sequel of sorts, the Jewish ethnic comedy characters of Potash and Perlmutter return from their 1923 debut film, also produced by Goldwyn, but with a different actor for Potash.