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Sydney Greenstreet

1879 - 1954

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Sydney Hughes Greenstreet (December 27, 1879 – January 18, 1954) was a British and American actor. While he did not begin his career in films until the age of 61, he had a run of significant motion pictures in a Hollywood career lasting through the 1940s. He is best remembered for the three Warner Bros. films – The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), and Passage to Marseille (1944) – with both Humphrey Bogart (five films total with Greenstreet) and Peter Lorre (nine films with Greenstreet, three of which were also with Bogart). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sydney Greenstreet is the 4,780th most popular actor (down from 4,755th in 2019), the 3,925th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,640th in 2019) and the 558th most popular British Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Sydney Greenstreet ranks 4,780 out of 13,578. Before him are Elisabeth Moss, Anthony LaPaglia, Robert Carradine, Jenny Agutter, Marília Pêra, and Alice Braga. After him are Keith Michell, Will Geer, Kim Hyun-joong, André Hennicke, Li Li-hua, and Edie McClurg.

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Among people born in 1879, Sydney Greenstreet ranks 197. Before him are Jules De Bisschop, Edward Hennig, Ernst Schultz, Ruth St. Denis, Miles Franklin, and Frank Odberg. After him are Birger Sörvik, Kārlis Skalbe, Marion Jones Farquhar, Han Yong-un, Steponas Kairys, and Gabriel Miró. Among people deceased in 1954, Sydney Greenstreet ranks 131. Before him are Henri Frankfort, Kaare Klint, Julio Acosta García, Abelardo Olivier, Miles Franklin, and Charles Perrin. After him are Otto Gebühr, Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Vasily Yan, Rupert Hollaus, and Vivian Woodward.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sydney Greenstreet ranks 3,926 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry Clifton Sorby (1826), Jeremy Kemp (1935), Dennis Brain (1921), Geoff Nicholls (1948), George Raynor (1907), and Jenny Agutter (1952). After him are Victor d'Arcy (1887), David Dunbar Buick (1854), Andy Bown (1946), Bob Fitzsimmons (1863), Ian Hunter (1939), and Emma Kirkby (1949).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Sydney Greenstreet ranks 558. Before him are Patricia Routledge (1929), Roger Lloyd-Pack (1944), Clive Russell (1945), Richard Dormer (1969), Jeremy Kemp (1935), and Jenny Agutter (1952). After him are Eddie Marsan (1968), Ian Abercrombie (1934), Henry Daniell (1894), Wilfrid Hyde-White (1903), Anna Lee (1913), and Peter Mullan (1959).

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