Sidney Bracey
Biography
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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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1877-12-17
Place of birth
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Cast
Passion Fruit
1921
0.00
The Cameraman
1928
7.85
Easy Living
1937
7.00
The Invisible Ray
1920
5.00
Free Love
1930
8.00
Morals
1921
0.00
Charlie Chan at the Race Track
1936
7.10
Subway Express
1931
0.00
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938
7.20
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932
5.09
Queen Kelly
1932
6.53
Crazy to Marry
1921
8.50
The House of Mirth
1918
0.00
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
1931
5.22
Being Respectable
1924
0.00
The Dawn Patrol
1938
6.80
Sioux Blood
1929
0.00
A Man Four-Square
1926
0.00
Three Smart Boys
1937
6.50
Broadway Bill
1934
5.98
The Haunted House
1928
0.00
Rendezvous
1935
4.80
Inspiration
1931
6.10
Manslaughter
1922
5.40
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1944
6.00
Criminal Lawyer
1937
5.90
The Firefly
1937
6.40
The Emperor's Candlesticks
1937
5.20
Ruggles of Red Gap
1923
0.00
The Vanishing Shadow
1934
6.50
Win That Girl
1928
0.00
Fight for Your Lady
1937
4.30
Rhythm in the Clouds
1937
5.00
The Second Floor Mystery
1930
0.00
One Rainy Afternoon
1936
4.82
He Was Her Man
1934
6.70
The Poor Rich
1934
0.00
The Wedding March
1928
7.00
The Girl Downstairs
1938
4.50
The 9th Guest
1934
5.75
Back Page
1933
6.40
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
1940
5.50
A Bankrupt Honeymoon
1926
6.00
My Love Came Back
1940
5.20
Broken Dreams
1933
6.00
The Strategy of Ann
1911
0.00
Oh Darling!
1930
0.00
Merrily We Live
1938
7.08
By Divine Right
1924
0.00
Let 'em Have It
1935
7.00
The Baroness and the Butler
1938
5.20
Breakfast for Two
1937
5.90
Reducing
1931
4.33
The Ragged Princess
1916
0.00
Magnificent Obsession
1935
7.40
His Captive Woman
1929
6.00
Midnight Madness
1928
0.00
The Avenger
1931
5.80
Follow Thru
1930
7.40
The Bishop Murder Case
1929
5.20
The Intruder
1933
4.20
Leap Year
1924
4.80
Wild Company
1930
5.00
Sweepstakes Winner
1939
3.70
Her Night of Romance
1924
6.40
Isle of Fury
1936
5.30
The Flirting Widow
1930
4.00
Love Is a Headache
1938
5.70
While the City Sleeps
1928
5.90
A Very Honorable Guy
1934
2.00
Sutter's Gold
1936
0.00
My Bill
1938
6.20
Naughty But Nice
1939
6.20
Secret Service of the Air
1939
5.80
What! No Beer?
1933
5.40
Smashing the Money Ring
1939
5.00
Sworn Enemy
1936
5.30
The Airmail Mystery
1932
0.00
Call It a Day
1937
5.00
Redemption
1930
4.50
Devil's Island
1939
5.40
King of the Underworld
1939
6.40
Playboy of Paris
1930
7.00
The Little Princess
1939
6.64
Dark Victory
1939
6.96
Women in the Wind
1939
6.80
The Sun Never Sets
1939
4.80
A Child Is Born
1939
6.50
We Are Not Alone
1939
6.10
Indianapolis Speedway
1939
5.00
The Old Maid
1939
7.10
A Night at the Movies
1937
5.50
Laughing Boy
1934
3.60
Four Wives
1939
5.30
Murder at Glen Athol
1936
6.50
Espionage Agent
1939
5.90
Dust Be My Destiny
1939
6.20
Fast and Furious
1939
5.10
Arsène Lupin Returns
1938
5.80
The Preview Murder Mystery
1936
5.60
The Winning Ticket
1935
3.50
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927
7.83
Ten Cents a Dance
1931
6.80
Torchy Runs for Mayor
1939
5.80
Duck Soup
1933
7.29
Brother Orchid
1940
6.50
The Body Disappears
1941
5.20
A Dangerous Affair
1931
0.00
The Woman on Trial
1927
0.00
The Blackbird
1926
6.33
Show People
1928
7.10
Shanghaied Love
1931
0.00
The Matinee Idol
1928
6.31
Birds of Prey
1927
4.00
Invisible Enemy
1938
6.00
No Time for Comedy
1940
5.40
The Honeymoon
1929
0.00
The March Hare
1921
0.00
The Outside Woman
1921
0.00
Anybody's Woman
1930
5.90
Massacre
1934
5.80
Sporting Blood
1931
5.50
Tangled Destinies
1932
5.80
Corruption
1933
5.33
Shall We Dance
1937
7.20
Our Daily Bread
1934
6.84
Outcast Lady
1934
6.30
Sinner Take All
1936
4.80
Changing of the Guard
1936
1.00
Painting the Town
1927
7.00
This Woman Is Mine
1941
3.67
Thundering Tenors
1931
0.00
The Monster Walks
1932
4.09
The Phantom of the Air
1933
6.00
My Best Girl
1927
7.00
Dangerously They Live
1941
5.90
A Star Is Born
1937
7.12
The Washington Masquerade
1932
6.50
Zudora
1914
0.00
Uncle's Namesakes
1913
5.00
The Crowd
1928
7.60
Merry-Go-Round
1923
6.00
Little Orphan Annie
1932
5.80
Why Men Leave Home
1924
1.00
Children of Pleasure
1930
4.70
A Slave of Fashion
1925
2.00
Saturday's Millions
1933
5.00
The Merry Widow
1926
6.80
The Phantom of Paris
1931
5.90
The Great Mr. Nobody
1941
5.30
The Little Giant
1933
6.80
Her Market Value
1925
0.00
Home, James
1928
0.00
The Littlest Diplomat
1937
3.00
On Trial
1939
5.50
My Official Wife
1926
0.00
Elusive Isabel
1916
0.00
The Bill of Rights
1939
6.00
Red-Headed Woman
1932
6.70
The Declaration of Independence
1938
6.50
What Every Woman Knows
1934
7.00
The Rage of Paris
1938
5.78
A Huntress of Men
1916
0.00
Hard to Get
1938
6.00
Along Came Youth
1930
7.00
Only Yesterday
1933
6.80
Letty Lynton
1932
6.80
The Voice of Bugle Ann
1936
5.80
Doughboys
1930
6.00
The Wrong Road
1937
4.43
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
1937
5.80
Anna Karenina
1935
6.60
She Had to Eat
1937
5.00
You Never Know Women
1926
6.00
The 13th Juror
1927
0.00
Freaks
1932
7.79
Bullets for O'Hara
1941
4.00
Everybody's Hobby
1939
5.70
The Dictator
1922
0.00
The Million Dollar Mystery
1914
0.00
Maid of Salem
1937
5.90
Trouble for Two
1936
6.00
Crime and Punishment
1917
0.00
Forsaking All Others
1934
6.10
Invisible Stripes
1939
6.30
San Francisco
1936
6.60
Many Happy Returns
1934
5.30
Temptation and the Man
1916
0.00
So This Is Marriage?
1924
0.00
Man-Made Women
1928
0.00
Comet Over Broadway
1938
5.00
The Path of Happiness
1916
0.00
Robin Hood
1913
6.00
Second Childhood
1936
7.00
Les Misérables
1935
7.17
The Long Trail
1917
0.00
My Own United States
1918
0.00
The Man Inside
1916
0.00
Mills of the Gods
1934
0.00
I'll Fix It
1934
0.00
Little Miss Happiness
1916
0.00
Caprice of the Mountains
1916
0.00
The Notorious Sophie Lang
1934
6.00
God's Witness
1915
0.00
Dance, Fools, Dance
1931
6.40
A Man's World
1918
0.00
You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939
5.60
Speak Easily
1932
5.81
Omens and Oracles
1913
0.00
Food for Scandal
1920
0.00
Monte Carlo
1930
6.50