Sydney greenstreet biography
Seven Things to Know About Sydney Greenstreet
Michael Curtiz
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Michael Curtiz
Sydney Greenstreet
English film actor Date of Birth: 27.12.1879 Country: Great Britain |
Content:
- Early Life
- Theatre Career: 1902-1940
- Film Career: 1941-1949
- Later Life and Death
Early Life
Sidney Greenstreet was born in Sandwich, Kent, England, into a leather merchant family. At 18, he ventured to Ceylon, intending to become a tea planter. However, a drought forced him to return to his homeland. Back in England, Greenstreet worked odd jobs while studying acting in the evenings under renowned actor Ben Greet.
Theatre Career: 1902-1940
Greenstreet made his British stage debut in 1902, playing a murderer in a Sherlock Holmes play. Two years later, he toured the US with Greet's Shakespearean company.
From 1907 onward, Greenstreet became a Broadway mainstay, performing in more than 30 plays, "moving easily from musical comedy to Shakespeare." For three decades, Greenstreet remained an exclusively theatrical actor, appearing in numerous stage productions in both
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- Sydney left home at age 18 to make his fortune as a Ceylon tea planter, but drought forced him out of business and back to England.
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- Sydney Greenstreet, who battled kidney disease and diabetes, died in 1954 at age 74.