Sydney Greenstreet

Sydney Greenstreet was born on Dec 27, 1879 in UK. Sydney Greenstreet's big-screen debut came with The Maltese Falcon directed by John Huston in 1941, strarring Kasper Gutman. Sydney Greenstreet is known for Flamingo Road directed by Michael Curtiz, Joan Crawford stars as Lane Bellamy and Zachary Scott as Fielding Carlisle. Sydney Greenstreet has got 2 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Sydney Greenstreet achieved is National Board of Review, USA. The upcoming new movie Sydney Greenstreet plays is Malaya which will be released on Apr 24, 1950.

Sydney Greenstreet's father was a leather merchant with eight children. 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. He managed a brewery and, to escape boredom, took acting lessons. His stage debut was as a murderer in a 1902 production of "Sherlock Holmes". From then on he appeared in numerous plays in England and the US, working through most of the 1930s with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne at the Theatre Guild. His parts ranged from musical comedy to Shakespeare. His film debut, occurring when he was 62 years old and weighing nearly 300 pounds, was as Kasper Guttman in the classic Le faucon maltais (1941), with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre. He teamed with Lorre in eight more movies after that. In eight years he made 24 films, all while beset by diabetes and Bright's disease. In 1949 he retired from films, and died four years later. He was 75.