Sidney Bracey

Known for ActingBorn 1877-12-17Died 1942-08-05Melbourne, 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.Read more

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The Airmail Mystery

Subway Express

Win That Girl

The Woman on Trial

The Mystery Club

Is Matrimony a Failure?

Morals

The March Hare

The Outside Woman

Crime and Punishment

The Strategy of Ann

I'll Fix It

Shanghaied Love

Oh Darling!

Sioux Blood

Midnight Madness

Man-Made Women

The 13th Juror

A Man Four-Square

Being Respectable

The Poor Rich

Mills of the Gods

The Woman Who Dared

Thundering Tenors

The Second Floor Mystery

His Captive Woman

My Official Wife

Her Market Value

By Divine Right

The Wild Party

The Dictator

Passion Fruit

Food for Scandal

An Amateur Devil

The Cameraman

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Freaks

Crazy to Marry

Let 'em Have It

What Every Woman Knows

Invisible Enemy

Follow Thru

Rhythm in the Clouds

The Crowd

Free Love

Painting the Town

Second Childhood

Magnificent Obsession