
Sydney Greenstreet
Highest Rated: 100% Ruthless (1948)
Lowest Rated: 60% Conflict (1945)
Birthday: Dec 27, 1879
Birthplace: Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
Portly English actor with a uniqely insinuating style of line delivery who made a sensational screen debut as the cunning Kaspar Guttman in John Huston's "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) at age 61. Greenstreet subsequently appeared in numerous films as a brilliant schemer and shrewd architect of villainy, memorably opposite Peter Lorre, with change-of-pace sympathetic roles (e.g. "Christmas in Connecticut" 1945) cropping up occasionally.
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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | 43% | Malaya | The Dutchman (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | 30% | It's a Great Feeling | Self | - | 1949 |
83% | 73% | Flamingo Road | Sheriff Titus Semple (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | 62% | The Woman in White | Count Fosco (Character) | - | 1948 |
100% | 44% | Ruthless | Buck Mansfield (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | 71% | The Velvet Touch | Captain Danbury (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | 56% | The Hucksters | Evan Llewellyn Evans (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | That Way With Women | James P. Alden (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | 56% | Devotion | William Makepeace Thackeray (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | 53% | Three Strangers | Jerome K. Arbutny (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | 74% | The Verdict | Supt. George Edward Grodman (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pillow to Post | Michael Otley (Character) | - | 1945 |
89% | 75% | Christmas in Connecticut | Alexander Yardley (Character) | - | 1945 |
60% | 76% | Conflict | Dr. Mark Hamilton (Character) | - | 1945 |
83% | 79% | The Mask of Dimitrios | Mr. Peters (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | 68% | Between Two Worlds | Reverend Tim Thompson (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | 58% | The Conspirators | Ricardo Quintanilla (Character) | - | 1944 |
60% | 57% | Passage to Marseille | Maj. Duval (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | 48% | Background to Danger | Colonel Robinson (Character) | - | 1943 |
99% | 95% | Casablanca | Signor Ferrari (Character) | - | 1942 |
80% | 60% | Across the Pacific | Dr. Lorenz (Character) | - | 1942 |
82% | 74% | They Died With Their Boots On | Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott (Character) | - | 1941 |
99% | 91% | The Maltese Falcon | Kasper Gutman (Character) | - | 1941 |