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Sid Caesar
Biographical Information

Sex:M
Age:101
Birth Date:September 8, 1922
Astrology Sign:Virgo
Chinese Sign:Dog - Yin
Birth Name:Isaac Sidney Caesar
Birth Place:Yonkers, NY
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Occupation:Actor/Comic

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SID CAESAR
Sid Caesar

Biography:Sid Caesar (born Isaac Sidney Caesar on September 8, 1922) is an Emmy-winning comic actor and writer, best known as the leading man on the 1950s television sketch comedy series Your Show of Shows.

Caesar was born to Eastern European Jewish immigrants in Yonkers, New York where his father ran a lunch counter where immigrant workers would gather. From them Sid learned to mimic many of the accents that he would use throughout his career. After graduating high school, he planned on a career in music, playing the saxophone. While he earned a reputation as a talented musician in the "Borscht Belt" in the Catskills, he also began performing comedy sketches, and became a sensation.

Caesar served in the Coast Guard during World War II, organizing entertainment for the enlisted men. This took him to Los Angeles, where he got a part in two films, Tars and Spars, based on a wartime comedy routine he did, and The Guilt of Janet Ames. By 1949 he entered the new medium of television, hosting The Admiral Broadway Review.

Television was a natural medium for Caesar. Over the next few years he hosted such hits as Your Show of Shows (1950-1954), Caesar's Hour (1954-1957) and Sid Caesar Invites You (1958). These shows, particularly Your Show of Shows, brought together some of the greatest comic talent of the day, including Imogene Coca, Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris. Many prominent writers got their start writing the skits, including Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Mel Tolkin, and Larry Gelbart. Caesar is also responsible for starting the career of Jim Perry in the early 1960s, who went on to become a popular television host, producer and singer.

Caesar's life took a turn when his show Sid Caesar Invites You was cancelled in 1958. In his autobiography he confesses that he turned to alcohol and drugs to overcome the insecurity of having a successful career unravel. He did make several appearances on Broadway, starring in Little Me, on television (The Sid Caesar Show, 1963-1964) and in the movies, Stanley Kramer's star-studded comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Mel Brooks's Silent Movie (1976), and as "Coach Calhoun" in 1978's Grease, but even though he continues to work, he has never recaptured the glory of the Golden Age of Television.

He has been married to Florence Levy since July 17, 1943. He can speak several foreign languages, including German, French, Russian, Italian, and Japanese. He demonstrated these talents on an episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway, despite being in his 80s.

Further reading F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, Sid Caesar's Broadway debut, New York Daily News, October 18, 2004.

Achievements: (Filmography)
Cannonball Run II (1984)
My Favorite Year (1982)
History of the World: Part 1 (1981)
Silent Movie (1976)
Airport 1975 (1974)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1964)

Chinese Horoscope for Sid Caesar
Includes characteristics and Vices
Sid Caesar's Chinese Horoscope
Chinese Year: January 28, 1922 - February 15, 1923
Birthday: September 8, 1922

The Dog is a Yin,
and is the Eleventh sign of the Chinese horoscope.

Characteristics:    
Constancy
Heroism
Respectability
Duty
Intelligence
Morality
Vices:
Uneasiness
Criticism
Self-Righeousness
Cynicism
Unsociability
Tactlessness


Personality and Character Cards:
Personality and character cards are identical!

Sid Caesar's Personality Tarot Card The Emperor - Personality Card

Birthday: September 8, 1922

Material success, stability, authority and ambition.


This year's Growth Tarot Card
Based on this year's birthday

Sid Caesar's Growth Tarot Card The Lovers

Birthday: September 8, 2023

A relationship or love affair with a trial or choice involved.

 

 

 

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