---
name: "Sydney Boehm"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sydney-boehm"
fi1m_id: "sydney-boehm"
imdb_id: "nm0091213"
tmdb_id: 82862
wikidata_id: "Q3506805"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "4 April 1908"
died: "25 June 1990"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T06:36:39.935077+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Sydney Boehm

## Identity

Sydney Boehm

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sydney-boehm
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sydney-boehm
- **IMDb ID:** nm0091213
- **TMDB ID:** 82862
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3506805
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Boehm, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3506805, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0091213/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82862

Writer. Born 4 April 1908 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Died 25 June 1990.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 4 April 1908, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Died:** 25 June 1990
- **Also known as:** Sidney Boehm
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Boehm, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3506805, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0091213/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82862

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Big Heat*](https://film.one/film/the-big-heat.md) (86)

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## Biography

Sydney Boehm (also credited as Sidney Boehm) was an American screenwriter and producer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began his career as a journalist and newswriter for wire services and newspapers before turning to screenwriting in the late 1940s.

His screenplays include *High Wall* (1947), *Side Street* (1950), *Mystery Street* (1950), *Union Station* (1950), *When Worlds Collide* (1951), *The Atomic City* (1952), *The Big Heat* (1953), *Secret of the Incas* (1954), *Violent Saturday* (1955), *The Tall Men* (1955) and *Rough Night in Jericho* (1967). He also produced several films, including *Woman Obsessed* (1959) and *Seven Thieves* (1960). Boehm received a 1954 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay for *The Big Heat*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Big Heat* (1953), Fi1m 86, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-heat.md)

## Complete filmography (29)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Rough Night in Jericho* (1967), Screenplay
- *Sylvia* (1965), Screenplay
- *Shock Treatment* (1964), Screenplay
- *One Foot in Hell* (1960), Producer, Writer
- *Seven Thieves* (1960), Producer, Screenplay
- *Woman Obsessed* (1959), Writer
- *A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed* (1958), Writer
- *Harry Black and the Tiger* (1958), Writer
- *The Revolt of Mamie Stover* (1956), Screenplay
- *The Bottom of the Bottle* (1956), Writer
- *Hell on Frisco Bay* (1955), Screenplay
- *The Tall Men* (1955), Screenplay
- *Violent Saturday* (1955), Screenplay
- *Six Bridges to Cross* (1955), Screenplay
- *Black Tuesday* (1954), Screenplay, Story
- *The Raid* (1954), Screenplay
- *Secret of the Incas* (1954), Screenplay, Story
- *The Siege at Red River* (1954), Screenplay
- *The Big Heat* (1953), Screenplay — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-heat.md)
- *Second Chance* (1953), Writer
- *The Savage* (1952), Screenplay
- *The Atomic City* (1952), Writer
- *When Worlds Collide* (1951), Screenplay
- *Branded* (1950), Screenplay
- *Union Station* (1950), Screenplay
- *Mystery Street* (1950), Screenplay
- *Side Street* (1950), Screenplay
- *The Undercover Man* (1949), Screenplay
- *High Wall* (1947), Screenplay

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1953: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *The Atomic City*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Edgar Awards 1954: Edgar Awards (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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