1. Sydney Hughes Greenstreet was a British and American actor.
16 Facts About Sydney Greenstreet
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Sydney Greenstreet is best remembered for the three Warner Bros.
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Sydney Greenstreet portrayed Nero Wolfe on radio during 1950 and 1951.
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Sydney Hughes Greenstreet was born on December 27,1879, in Eastry, Kent, the son of Ann and John Jarvis Greenstreet, a tanner.
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Sydney Greenstreet left home at the age of 18 to make his fortune as a Ceylon tea planter, but drought forced him out of business.
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Sydney Greenstreet began managing a brewery and, to escape boredom, took acting lessons.
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Sydney Greenstreet toured Britain with Ben Greet's Shakespearean company, and in 1905 made his New York City debut in Everyman.
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Sydney Greenstreet appeared in such plays as a revival of As You Like It.
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Sydney Greenstreet appeared in numerous plays in Britain and America, working through most of the 1930s with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne at the Theatre Guild.
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In Casablanca, Sydney Greenstreet played crooked club owner Signor Ferrari.
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Sydney Greenstreet appeared in Background to Danger, with George Raft; Passage to Marseille, reuniting with Casablanca stars Bogart, Peter Lorre and Claude Rains; The Mask of Dimitrios ; The Conspirators with Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid; Hollywood Canteen ; Conflict, again with Bogart; Three Strangers ; and The Verdict.
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Sydney Greenstreet had dramatic roles, such as William Makepeace Thackeray in Devotion, and witty performances in screwball comedies, such as Alexander Yardley in Christmas in Connecticut.
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Sydney Greenstreet suffered from diabetes and Bright's disease, a kidney disorder.
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Sydney Greenstreet's death was caused by complications from both conditions.
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Sydney Greenstreet is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, in the Utility Columbarium area of the Great Mausoleum, inaccessible to the public.
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Sydney Greenstreet was survived by his only child, John Ogden Greenstreet, from his marriage to Dorothy Marie Ogden.