Sidney Bracey
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If longevity counts for anything, Sidney Bracey is an Australian actor with a body of work built one job at a time. Ask a viewer to place Sidney Bracey and the answer usually comes back 'The Cameraman'. 'Anna Karenina' is close behind in visibility. The filmography runs to some 210 credits between film and television.
Sidney Bracey
210 Movies
If longevity counts for anything, Sidney Bracey is an Australian actor with a body of work built one job at a time. Ask a viewer to place Sidney Bracey and the answer usually comes back 'The Cameraman'. 'Anna Karenina' is close behind in visibility. The filmography runs to some 210 credits between film and television.
Movies
Plays Editor
The Cameraman
1928
Plays Member of Parliament
The Baroness and the Butler
1938
Plays Hawkins
The 9th Guest
1934
Plays Dramatic Director
Show People
1928
Plays Mr. Ferris
Everybody's Hobby
1939
Plays Vronsky's Valet
Anna Karenina
1935
Plays Rent Collector
Our Daily Bread
1934
Plays Wilson, Carlton's Butler
Ten Cents a Dance
1931
Plays Denny
The Vanishing Shadow
1934
Plays Beggar
The Great Mr. Nobody
1941
Plays Mayor's Clerk
Les Misérables
1935
Plays Sam
Isle of Fury
1936
Plays Soupy
Devil's Island
1939
Plays Waiter on ship
Charlie Chan at the Race Track
1936
Plays Butler
Anybody's Woman
1930
Plays Butler
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
1931
Plays 2nd Butler
Merrily We Live
1938
Plays Butler at Spencer Home
Let 'em Have It
1935
Plays Gisella's Groom
Merry-Go-Round
1923
Plays John 'Joe' Vicary
Secret Service of the Air
1939
Plays Limey
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
1940
Plays Spectator
Indianapolis Speedway
1939
Plays Ben, the Lamplighter
We Are Not Alone
1939
Plays Benedict
The Washington Masquerade
1932
Plays Pop Dryden
Smashing the Money Ring
1939
Plays Major Brand's Orderly
The Dawn Patrol
1938
Plays Jenner
My Bill
1938
Plays Herbert Wilkes
The Monster Walks
1932
Plays Beasley's Butler
Reducing
1931
Plays Waiter
He Was Her Man
1934
Plays Butler
The Little Giant
1933
Plays The Waiter
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932
Plays Carlo - Valet
The Intruder
1933
Plays Steward
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
1937
Plays Minister of Colonial Affairs
The Sun Never Sets
1939
Plays Bank Employee
The Winning Ticket
1935
Plays Barrett
The Body Disappears
1941
Plays Waiter
Redemption
1930
Plays James Munson
The Phantom of the Air
1933
Plays Butler
My Love Came Back
1940
Plays Dr. Robbins
Corruption
1933
Plays Ship Steward
Espionage Agent
1939
Plays Edgar Ashe
Back Page
1933
Plays Windy
The Avenger
1931
Plays Butler
Magnificent Obsession
1935
Plays Bertie's No. 1 Man
The Blackbird
1926
Plays White Father
Laughing Boy
1934
Plays Manager
You Never Know Women
1926
Plays Colonist
The Bill of Rights
1939
Plays Butler (as Sidney Bracy)
Little Orphan Annie
1932
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The Great Mr. Nobody
Full Filmography
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Wigged Courtier (uncredited)
1944
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Dangerously They Live
Sidewalk Onlooker (uncredited)
1941
Film
The Body Disappears
Barrett
1941
Film
This Woman Is Mine
Clerk
1941
Film
Bullets for O'Hara
Lamson
1941
Film
The Great Mr. Nobody
Beggar
1941
Film
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Limey
1940
Film
No Time for Comedy
Waiter at Wyler's Party (uncredited)
1940
Film
My Love Came Back
Butler
1940
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Sidney Bracey still alive?
Sidney Bracey passed away on August 5, 1942 at age 64.
What are the most famous roles of Sidney Bracey?
Sidney Bracey is best known for roles in Freaks, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Duck Soup.
How many movies has Sidney Bracey been in?
Over a 31-year career (since 1911), Sidney Bracey has appeared in 210 movies and 0 TV shows.
What was Sidney Bracey's first movie?
The career of Sidney Bracey began with The Strategy of Ann (1911).
What is Sidney Bracey's most recent movie or series?
Sidney Bracey's most recent release is The Bridge of San Luis Rey, which premiered on February 11, 1944.
Sidney Bracey
1877-12-17 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Sidney Bracey (18 December 1877 – 5 August 1942) was an Australian-born American actor. After a stage career in Australia, on Broadway and in Britain, he appeared in 321 films between 1909 and 1942.
Bracey was born in Melbourne, Victoria, with the name Sidney Bracy, later changing the spelling of his last name. He was the son of Welsh tenor Henry Bracy and English actress Clara T. Bracy. His aunt was actress and dancer Lydia Thompson.
He began his stage career in Australia in the 1890s, with J. C. Williamson's comic opera companies. On Broadway, in 1900, he appeared as the tenor lead, Yussuf, in the first American production of The Rose of Persia at Daly's Theatre in New York. He then moved to England, appearing as Moreno in the Edwardian musical comedy hit The Toreador at the Gaiety Theatre, London in June 1901. He next joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company on tour in Britain, playing Terence O'Brian in The Emerald Isle from September 1901 to May 1902. He then left the D'Oyly Carte, continuing his stage career in Britain. He appeared in Amorelle at London's Comedy Theatre in 1904, The Winter's Tale in 1904–05, and A Persian Princess at Queen's Theatre in 1909.
Back on Broadway, in 1912, he played as Sir Guy of Gisborne in a revival of Reginald de Koven's Robin Hood at the New Amsterdam Theatre, followed by Rob Roy at the Liberty Theatre in 1913. He then moved into film acting, making first silent films and then "talkies", until his death in 1942. Early in his film career, he wrote and directed a silent movie called Sid Nee's Finish, (Thanhouser Company (1914), in which he played the title character. In 1916, he changed the spelling of his last name to "Bracey". Silent film authority Diane MacIntyre gave this description of him: "Bracey, a stately looking character man, was in big demand for authority like roles; such as movie directors, bosses and, most of the time, the most respectable and poised butler in all of Hollywood. He was thin, dark haired and had an earnest, yet sober, face that could break into a look of wide-eyed exasperation."
Bracy died in Hollywood, California on 5 August 1942, aged 64.