Syd Saylor

Syd Saylor

actor, soundtrack

Syd Saylor was born on Mar 24, 1895 in USA. Syd Saylor's big-screen debut came with Cat, Dog & Co. directed by Robert A. McGowan in 1929, strarring Pedestrian (uncredited). Syd Saylor is known for The Abbott and Costello Show directed by Jean Yarbrough, Bud Abbott stars as Bud Abbott and Lou Costello as Lou Costello. The upcoming new movie Syd Saylor plays is The Crawling Hand which will be released on Feb 24, 1966.

Leo Sailor, a.k.a. Syd Saylor, was born into a very notable family. His father, George Sailor, was a renowned engineer, and was often called out to various locations for consultation and evaluation. In 1906 he was called to San Francisco on a job, and he had no sooner checked into his hotel than the city was devastated by the notorious 1906 earthquake. Mr. Sailor was never seen again, and was presumed to have been one of many to have died in the quake. That left Syd and his brother without a father, and to remedy that situation his mother's brother Ed moved in with the family.Syd decided to follow his uncle Ed's advice; he studied hard and had the help of his uncle as a tutor. Syd soon joined several local actors groups. While appearing in a variety of plays put on by the troupe, Syd discovered that he had a talent for making people laugh, and his other uncle--a captain in the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department who was a former member of Mack Sennett's comedy troupe The Keystone Kops--encouraged him to go to Los Angeles to break into the film industry. Syd did just that, and his uncle used the connections he had in the film industry to get Syd's foot in the door. Syd became a prolific character actor, recognizable by his bulging eyes, stuttering speech and a protruding Adam's apple that bobbed up and down like a pogo stick. He appeared in everything from comedies (in the 1920s he had his own series of two-reel shorts) to westerns, usually as the hero's sidekick. He wasn't just a one-note comic, though. He had a small but touching role as a lonely patient in a psychiatric hospital in La fosse aux serpents (1948), who goes to the facility's annual dance and desperately and sadly looks for a woman to dance with him.He appeared in more than 170 films, and died of a heart attack in Hollywood in 1962.

  • Birthday

    Mar 24, 1895

  • Place of Birth

    Chicago, Illinois, USA

Known For

The Abbott and Costello Show
TV
The Abbott and Costello Show

19578.1

The Spirit of St. Louis
Movie
The Spirit of St. Louis

19577.1

High Noon
Movie
High Noon

19528.0

Woman on the Run
Movie
Woman on the Run

19517.2

The Stratton Story
Movie
The Stratton Story

19497.1

The Snake Pit
Movie
The Snake Pit

19487.6

Sitting Pretty
Movie
Sitting Pretty

19487.4

Dead Reckoning
Movie
Dead Reckoning

19477.1

Scarlet Street
Movie
Scarlet Street

19457.8

Gaslight
Movie
Gaslight

19447.8

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