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George Sidney

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

George Sidney
Born October 4, 1916 (1916-10-04)
Long Island City, New York, United States
Died May 5, 2002 (aged 85)
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

George Sidney (October 4, 1916 - May 5, 2002) was an American film director and film producer who worked primarily at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

[edit] Biography

Born in Long Island City, New York, Sidney began his career as an assistant at MGM until being assigned to direct the Our Gang comedies, which MGM had just acquired from Hal Roach, in 1938. Sidney, then age 21, was the youngest Our Gang senior director ever, and was only nine years older than the eldest Our Gang kid, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer's brother Harold.

After a year of working on Our Gang shorts, Sidney moved on to the Crime Does Not Pay series. He soon graduated to features, including The Harvey Girls (1946), The Three Musketeers (1948), Annie Get Your Gun (1950), Kiss Me, Kate (1953), Jupiter's Darling (1955), The Eddy Duchin Story (1956), Pal Joey (1957), Jeanne Eagels (1957), Bye Bye Birdie (1963), and Elvis Presley's Viva Las Vegas (1964). His last film was Half a Sixpence (1967).

Sidney had helped MGM colleagues William Hanna and Joseph Barbera bankroll their side company Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1944 and was associated with them for ten years. Hanna and Barbera's Jerry Mouse appeared alongside Gene Kelly in Sidney's film Anchors Aweigh (1945); he later featured Fred Flintstone and Huckleberry Hound in Bye Bye Birdie, when the animators had moved to Screen Gems, the television division of Columbia Pictures.

Sidney was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award four times. In 1958 he was presented with a Golden Globe Award for Best World Entertainment Through Musical Films. For his work in the art of cinema, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He died of complications from lymphoma in Las Vegas, Nevada at the age of 85.

Motion picture actor George Sidney (1876-1945, born Samuel Greenfield) was his uncle.

[edit] Awards and nominations

Year Group Award Film Result
1952 Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Show Boat Nominated
1953 Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Scaramouche Nominated
1954 Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Young Bess Nominated
1957 Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures The Eddy Duchin Story Nominated
1959 Directors Guild of America DGA Honorary Life Member Award
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Won
1986 Directors Guild of America Robert B. Aldrich Achievement Award
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Won
1998 Directors Guild of America President's Award
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Won
1995 Golden Apple Award Louella Parsons Award
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Won
1958 Golden Globe Award Best World Entertainment Through Musical Films
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Won
1993 San Luis Obispo International Film Festival King Vidor Memorial Award
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Won

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Persondata
NAME Sidney, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Film director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Long Island City, New York, United States
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 2002
PLACE OF DEATH Las Vegas, Nevada, United States


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