Sidney Bracey
Acting
Born 1877-12-17
Died 1942-08-05
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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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.
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59 credits
Freaks
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Duck Soup
Show People
A Star Is Born
Easy Living
Anna Karenina
Dark Victory
The Little Princess
San Francisco
Wife vs. Secretary
Shall We Dance
The 9th Guest
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
The Crowd
Zudora
Broadway Bill
The Baroness and the Butler
Les Misérables
Invisible Stripes
Brother Orchid
Our Daily Bread
Isle of Fury
The Old Maid
Red-Headed Woman
The Deemster
Devil's Island
Only Yesterday
What! No Beer?
Everybody's Hobby
Sinner Take All
The Washington Masquerade
Merrily We Live
Rendezvous
The Merry Widow
He Was Her Man
Charlie Chan at the Race Track
Hard to Get
Mills of the Gods
The Dawn Patrol
Dance, Fools, Dance
The Emperor's Candlesticks
Secret Service of the Air
Forsaking All Others
The Sun Never Sets
The Little Giant
Indianapolis Speedway
Women in the Wind
Dangerously They Live
Naughty but Nice
Maid of Salem
A Child is Born
Letty Lynton
What Every Woman Knows
Monte Carlo
The Mystery Club
Dust Be My Destiny
Sutter's Gold
Ten Cents a Dance
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