Biography
Sid Caesar (born Isaac Sidney Caesar) was an American comic actor and writer. He rose to prominence in the early 1950s as the star of the live television variety series Your Show of Shows (1950–54) and its successor Caesar’s Hour (1954–57).
He appeared in numerous films, including It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Silent Movie (1976), Grease (1978) as Coach Calhoun, History of the World: Part I (1981), Grease 2 (1982), and The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980) as Joe Capone. Caesar was born on 8 September 1922 in Yonkers, New York, and died on 12 February 2014.
