Sidney Easton
Date of birth: 1885-10-02
Place of birth: Savannah, Georgia, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Sid Easton, Sydney Easton
Biography
Sidney Easton (October 2, 1885 – December 24, 1971) was an African-American actor, stage performer, playwright, composer, vocalist, and pianist. He worked as a performer in minstrel shows, carnivals, burlesque, and vaudeville. Starting in the 1930s he appeared in films.
Movie Credits
His Woman
1931-11-20
Tough Caribbean freighter Captain Sam Whelan engages Sally Clark, a tramp masquerading as a missiona
Fight That Ghost
1946-01-01
Pigmeat and Shorty, who own "Pigmeat and Shorty's Bootery", are told by their landlord to either pay
Ouanga
1935-12-03
In Haiti, a black female plantation owner enacts a voodoo curse, and revives zombies for revenge on
Paradise in Harlem
1939-01-01
It is the story of a comedian Lem Anderson who dreams of playing in Shakespeare scenes but he is app
Killer Diller
1948-01-01
An all-Black comedy and dance revue with stars of stage and screen.
The Story of Mr. Hobbs
1947-01-01
Crad Hobbs, a Virginia waterman, is depressed over the decline in the shellfish trade and the gradua
Wayward
1932-02-19
Story of a mother's antagonism to her son's wife. Based on the novel "Wild Beauty" by Mateel Howe Fa
The Conjure Woman
1926-07-24
Screenplay adapted from Charles Chestnutt's novel.
What Goes Up
1939-04-13
An all-black cast feature comedy film written, directed by, and starring Eddie Green. Co-star Babe M
Be Like Me
1931-10-24
Ethel runs a run down saloon in Nicaragua. Word arrives that the soldiers are pulling out, and most
Murder on Lenox Avenue
1941-01-01
Dramatic events in a Harlem apartment house center around Pa Wilkins, chosen by the Better Business
A Rhapsody in Black and Blue
1932-03-20
A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dre
Boarding House Blues
1948-09-01
In order to save their home, tenants of a boarding house put on a show.
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
1934-08-24
This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a
Sunday Sinners
1940-02-01
Reverend Jesse Hampton has a bone to pick with the management of Club Harlem, a wildly popular night
I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket
1933-01-23
Walter Winchell meets a budding country journalist and shows her around the Biltmore Hotel.
The Musical Doctor
1932-10-28
Rudy Vallee cures patients at Dr. Vallee's Musical Hospital by means of music.