Director

George Sidney

Directing

Career Snapshot

Explained

These indicators come from TMDB. They are relative signals, not review ratings.

Directed credits

Prolific

Very extensive directing filmography.

TMDB popularity

0.9

Low visibility

TMDB internal trend index. Higher usually means more searches and page activity now.

Directed movies: 44Directed series: 0All crew credits: 47

TMDB ID: 21506

IMDb ID: nm0796645

Known for: Directing

Born: October 4, 1916

Died: May 5, 2002

Age: 85

Place of birth: Long Island City, New York, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1936 - 2006

Years active: 71

Average TMDB rating: 6.43

Wikidata: Q630981

Also known as

Джордж Сидни

Frequent jobs

Director (44)Producer (3)

TMDB TMDB IMDb IMDb W Wikidata

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Sidney (October 4, 1916 – May 5, 2002) was an American film director and film producer who worked primarily at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Sidney was assigned to direct the Our Gang comedies in 1938. After a year of working on these shorts, he moved on to the Crime Does Not Pay series and popular Pete Smith specialties. He graduated to directing features in 1941. He then worked his way into directing large scale musicals such as The Harvey Girls (1946), The Three Musketeers (1948), Annie Get Your Gun (1950), and Kiss Me Kate (1953). Sidney left MGM to make The Eddy Duchin Story (1956) at Columbia Pictures, where he made his base for the next decade for such films as Jeanne Eagels (1957), Pal Joey (1957), Who Was That Lady? (1960), Pepe (1960), and Bye Bye Birdie (1963). He would return to MGM to film A Ticklish Affair (1963) and Elvis Presley's Viva Las Vegas (1964). His last film was Half a Sixpence (1967). Sidney was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award four times, starting with the lush Technicolor remake of Show Boat. 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, George Sidney was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Movies