Acting

Sidney Bracey

Born December 17, 1877 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Died August 5, 1942 · aged 64

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…

Known For

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans · 1927

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

MovieDramaRomance

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

Freaks

MovieDramaHorror

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born · 1937

MovieDramaRomance

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.

The Cameraman

The Cameraman · 1928

MovieComedyRomance

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

The Little Princess

The Little Princess · 1939

The Little Princess

MovieFamilyDrama

A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.

Duck Soup

Duck Soup · 1933

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

The Baroness and the Butler

The Baroness and the Butler · 1938

The Baroness and the Butler

MovieComedyDrama

A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.

Dark Victory

Dark Victory · 1939

MovieDramaRomance

Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.

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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans · 1927

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

MovieDramaRomance

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

Dance Hall Manager (uncredited)

Freaks

MovieDramaHorror

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

Hans' Butler (uncredited)

A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born · 1937

MovieDramaRomance

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.

Burke's Butler (uncredited)

The Cameraman

The Cameraman · 1928

MovieComedyRomance

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

Editor

The Little Princess

The Little Princess · 1939

The Little Princess

MovieFamilyDrama

A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.

Pedestrian Discussing War (uncredited)

Duck Soup

Duck Soup · 1933

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

Mrs. Teasdale's Butler (uncredited)

The Baroness and the Butler

The Baroness and the Butler · 1938

The Baroness and the Butler

MovieComedyDrama

A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.

Member of Parliament

Dark Victory

Dark Victory · 1939

MovieDramaRomance

Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.

Bartender (uncredited)

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina · 1935

MovieHistoryDrama

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Vronsky's Valet

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse · 1938

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

MovieCrimeDrama

A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from its extremely resentful leader.

Police Chemist (uncredited)

The Crowd

The Crowd · 1928

MovieDramaRomance

John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.

John's Supervisor (uncredited)

Broadway Bill

Broadway Bill · 1934

MovieComedyDrama

Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin and the luck is against him. He is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planned fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...

Higgins' 2nd Butler (uncredited)

Invisible Stripes

Invisible Stripes · 1939

Invisible Stripes

MovieCrimeDrama

A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.

Bank Guard (uncredited)

San Francisco

San Francisco · 1936

MovieDramaRomance

A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.

Burley's Butler Allen (uncredited)

Dust Be My Destiny

Dust Be My Destiny · 1939

Dust Be My Destiny

MovieCrimeDrama

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.

Nick's First Customer (uncredited)

Les Misérables

Les Misérables · 1935

Les Misérables

MovieDramaHistory

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

Mayor's Clerk

Smashing the Money Ring

Smashing the Money Ring · 1939

Smashing the Money Ring

MovieActionAdventure

T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.

Pop Dryden

Charlie Chan at the Race Track

Charlie Chan at the Race Track · 1936

Charlie Chan at the Race Track

MovieMysteryComedy

When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.

Waiter on ship

Sworn Enemy

Sworn Enemy · 1936

MovieRomanceCrime

A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.

Waiter (uncredited)

Love Is a Headache

Love Is a Headache · 1938

Love Is a Headache

MovieComedyRomance

A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.

Waiter (uncredited)

Wife vs. Secretary

Wife vs. Secretary · 1936

Wife vs. Secretary

MovieDramaComedy

Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.

Butler at Club (uncredited)

I'll Fix It

I'll Fix It · 1934

MovieComedyRomance

A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in which ever way is best for his needs. But when he tries to fix his adored kid brother's place on the school football team, he meets his match in school-teacher Anne Barry.

Reporter

Dance, Fools, Dance

Dance, Fools, Dance · 1931

Dance, Fools, Dance

MovieDramaCrime

When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, her naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people.

Albert (uncredited)

Red-Headed Woman

Red-Headed Woman · 1932

Red-Headed Woman

MovieComedyRomance

Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her.

Man Wanting to Use Phone Booth (uncredited)