Acting

Sidney Easton

Born October 2, 1885 · Savannah, Georgia, USA

Died December 24, 1971 · aged 86

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.

Known For

Killer DillerKiller Diller · 1948
Killer Diller
5.31948
MovieComedyDrama
An all-Black comedy and dance revue with stars of stage and screen.
His WomanHis Woman · 1931
His Woman
4.31931
MovieDramaRomance
Tough Caribbean freighter Captain Sam Whelan engages Sally Clark, a tramp masquerading as a missionary's daughter, to care for an abandoned baby on board his ship. En route to New York, ships mate Gatson sexually attacks her. The Captain knocks Gatson overboard in an ensuing scuffle. A romance developing between the Captain and Miss Clark is put to the test in New York after an assault investigation uncovers the girl's questionable past.
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-HoCab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho · 1934
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
6.41934
MovieComedyMusic
This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington) of a train porter who is frequently absent from home. Calloway and his Orchestra perform "Zaz-zuh-zaz" and "The Lady with the Fan" at the Cotton Club in Harlem.
WaywardWayward · 1932
Wayward
6.31932
MovieDrama
Story of a mother's antagonism to her son's wife. Based on the novel "Wild Beauty" by Mateel Howe Farnham.
Paradise in HarlemParadise in Harlem · 1939
Paradise in Harlem
5.01939
MovieComedyDrama
It is the story of a comedian Lem Anderson who dreams of playing in Shakespeare scenes but he is applied only role in Harlem Vaudeville. One day he is the witness of a crime and the mobster strongly advised him to leave the town...
A Rhapsody in Black and BlueA Rhapsody in Black and Blue · 1932
A Rhapsody in Black and Blue
6.21932
MovieMusic
A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dreams he's King of Jazzmania, a land of soapsuds where Louis Armstrong performs 'I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You' and 'Shine'.
Fight That GhostFight That Ghost · 1946
Fight That Ghost
8.01946
MovieComedyHorror
Pigmeat and Shorty, who own "Pigmeat and Shorty's Bootery", are told by their landlord to either pay up or get out. They get caught trying to short-count him, and he threatens to have them arrested. After a series of disasters--they ruin a customer's suit, their store blows up--they get a telegram notifying them that a man they once did a kindness for has left them quite a bit of money and a house, but in order to get the inheritance, they have to spend a night in the bedroom of the man's house. When they arrive there, they notice two things--the place is kind of creepy and a series of spooky incidents leaves them to believe the house is haunted.
I Know Everybody and Everybody's RacketI Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket · 1933
I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket
7.01933
MovieMusicComedy
Walter Winchell meets a budding country journalist and shows her around the Biltmore Hotel.

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