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Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 17, 1877
Died
August 5, 1942
Place of Birth
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Also Known As
- Sydney Bracey
- Sidney Bracy
- Sid Bracy
- Sydney Bracy
- Sidney Alfred Dunn
Sidney Bracey
0.2 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Known For
6.0
Wigged Courtier (uncredited)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1944
5.9
Sidewalk Onlooker (uncredited)
Dangerously They Live
1941
5.2
Barrett
The Body Disappears
1941
4.0
Clerk
This Woman Is Mine
1941
4.0
Lamson
Bullets for O'Hara
1941
5.3
Beggar
The Great Mr. Nobody
1941
5.5
Limey
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
1940
5.0
Waiter at Wyler's Party (uncredited)
No Time for Comedy
1940
4.6
Butler
My Love Came Back
1940
6.5
Steward Bringing Briefcase (uncredited)
Brother Orchid
1940
Credits
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
as Wigged Courtier (uncredited)
1944
6.0
Dangerously They Live
as Sidewalk Onlooker (uncredited)
1941
5.9
The Body Disappears
as Barrett
1941
5.2
This Woman Is Mine
as Clerk
1941
4.0
Bullets for O'Hara
as Lamson
1941
4.0
The Great Mr. Nobody
as Beggar
1941
5.3
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
as Limey
1940
5.5
No Time for Comedy
as Waiter at Wyler's Party (uncredited)
1940
5.0
My Love Came Back
as Butler
1940
4.6
Brother Orchid
as Steward Bringing Briefcase (uncredited)
1940
6.5
Invisible Stripes
as Bank Guard (uncredited)
1939
6.1
Four Wives
as Extra at Wedding Reception (uncredited)
1939
5.3
A Child Is Born
as Third Drugstore Clerk (uncredited)
1939
6.5
We Are Not Alone
as Ben, the Lamplighter
1939
6.1
Smashing the Money Ring
as Pop Dryden
1939
5.0
Fast and Furious
as Night Clerk (uncredited)
1939
4.7
Espionage Agent
as Ship Steward
1939
5.9
Dust Be My Destiny
as Nick's First Customer (uncredited)
1939
6.2
Everybody's Hobby
as Mr. Ferris
1939
5.7
The Bill of Rights
as Colonist
1939
6.0
The Old Maid
as Charles the Butler (uncredited)
1939
7.0
Indianapolis Speedway
as Spectator
1939
5.0
Naughty But Nice
as Professor Listening to Radio (uncredited)
1939
6.2
The Sun Never Sets
as Minister of Colonial Affairs
1939
4.8
Sweepstakes Winner
as Mr. Simpkins (as Sidney Bracy)
1939
3.7
Torchy Runs for Mayor
as Dolan's Butler (uncredited)
1939
5.7
Dark Victory
as Bartender (uncredited)
1939
7.0
Women in the Wind
as Race Official / Spectator (uncredited)
1939
6.8
On Trial
as Joe Burke
1939
5.5
You Can't Get Away with Murder
as Tourist on Boat (uncredited)
1939
5.7
The Little Princess
as Pedestrian Discussing the War
1939
6.7
Secret Service of the Air
as John 'Joe' Vicary
1939
5.8
King of the Underworld
as Bert - the Farmer (uncredited)
1939
6.4
Devil's Island
as Soupy
1939
5.4
The Dawn Patrol
as Major Brand's Orderly
1938
6.8
The Girl Downstairs
as Second Butler (uncredited)
1938
4.1
Comet Over Broadway
as English Porter (uncredited)
1938
5.0
The Declaration of Independence
as Congress Clerk (uncredited)
1938
6.3
Hard to Get
as Carl - Richards' Butler (uncredited)
1938
6.0
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
as Police Chemist (uncredited)
1938
7.1
My Bill
as Jenner
1938
6.2
The Rage of Paris
as Opera House Usher (uncredited)
1938
5.8
Invisible Enemy
as Kamarov's Butler
1938
6.0
Merrily We Live
as 2nd Butler
1938
6.9
Arsène Lupin Returns
as Squad Car Driver (uncredited)
1938
5.8
The Baroness and the Butler
as Member of Parliament
1938
5.0
Love Is a Headache
as Waiter (uncredited)
1938
5.7
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
as Steward
1937
5.8
A Night at the Movies
as Movie Patron (uncredited)
1937
5.5
Fight for Your Lady
as Densmore's Servant (uncredited)
1937
4.8
The Firefly
as Secretary (uncredited)
1937
6.4
Breakfast for Two
as Clarence - Blair's Butler (uncredited)
1937
5.6
The Wrong Road
as Waiter (Uncredited)
1937
4.4
The Littlest Diplomat
as Adjutant Potter
1937
3.0
Easy Living
as Hornsby - Mary's Chauffeur (uncredited)
1937
7.1
The Emperor's Candlesticks
as Maria's Footman (uncredited)
1937
4.7
She Had to Eat
as Waiter (uncredited)
1937
5.0
Rhythm in the Clouds
as Butler
1937
5.0
Three Smart Boys
as O.T. Hertz, the veterinary doctor
1937
6.5
Shall We Dance
as First Steward (uncredited)
1937
7.2
A Star Is Born
as Burke's Butler (uncredited)
1937
7.2
Call It a Day
as Flower Shop Owner (uncredited)
1937
5.0
Maid of Salem
as Townsman (Uncredited)
1937
5.9
Criminal Lawyer
as Wilson - Walker's Butler (uncredited)
1937
5.9
Sinner Take All
as Lampier's Butler (uncredited)
1936
4.3
Isle of Fury
as Sam
1936
5.3
Sworn Enemy
as Waiter (uncredited)
1936
5.3
Charlie Chan at the Race Track
as Waiter on ship
1936
7.1
San Francisco
as Burley's Butler Allen (uncredited)
1936
6.5
🎬
Changing of the Guard
as Grayson, the Butler
1936
1.0
Trouble for Two
as Noel's Henchman (Uncredited)
1936
6.0
One Rainy Afternoon
as George, Butler (Uncredited)
1936
4.8
Second Childhood
as Hobson
1936
7.0
Sutter's Gold
as Smythe - Sutter's Accountant
1936
0.0
The Preview Murder Mystery
as Du Beck's Valet (Uncredited)
1936
5.6
Murder at Glen Athol
as Jenkins - Butler (uncredited)
1936
6.5
The Voice of Bugle Ann
as Court Clerk (uncredited)
1936
5.0
Magnificent Obsession
as Butler
1935
7.3
Rendezvous
as Jackson's Assistant (uncredited)
1935
4.3
Anna Karenina
as Vronsky's Valet
1935
6.5
Let 'em Have It
as Butler at Spencer Home
1935
7.0
Les Misérables
as Mayor's Clerk
1935
7.2
The Casino Murder Case
as Waiter (unconfirmed) (uncredited)
1935
6.5
The Winning Ticket
as Bank Employee
1935
3.3
Forsaking All Others
as Paula's Chauffeur (Uncredited)
1934
5.9
Mills of the Gods
as Chauffeur
1934
0.0
Broadway Bill
as Higgins' 2nd Butler (uncredited)
1934
6.0
I'll Fix It
as Reporter
1934
0.0
What Every Woman Knows
as Constituent Shouting 'Three Cheers' (uncredited)
1934
7.0
Our Daily Bread
as Rent Collector
1934
6.7
Outcast Lady
as Napier's Butler
1934
6.3
The Notorious Sophie Lang
as Waiter (uncredited)
1934
6.0
He Was Her Man
as Waiter
1934
6.2
Many Happy Returns
as Movie Butler (uncredited)
1934
5.3
The Vanishing Shadow
as Denny
1934
6.5
A Very Honorable Guy
as Waiter
1934
2.0
Laughing Boy
as White Father
1934
3.2
The Poor Rich
as Arbuthnot
1934
0.0
The 9th Guest
as Hawkins
1934
5.9
Massacre
as Norma's Butler (uncredited)
1934
5.4
Duck Soup
as Mrs. Teasdale's Butler (uncredited)
1933
7.3
Back Page
as Edgar Ashe
1933
6.4
Only Yesterday
as Second Butler (Uncredited)
1933
6.8
Broken Dreams
as Hopkins
1933
6.0
Saturday's Millions
as Butler
1933
5.0
Corruption
as Dr. Robbins
1933
5.3
The Phantom of the Air
as James Munson
1933
6.0
The Little Giant
as Butler
1933
6.8
The Intruder
as Carlo - Valet
1933
4.0
What! No Beer?
as Dr. Smith (uncredited)
1933
5.5
Little Orphan Annie
as Butler (as Sidney Bracy)
1932
5.8
Queen Kelly
as Prince Wolfram's Lackey (uncredited)
1932
6.5
Tangled Destinies
as McGinnis, posing as Professor Marmont
1932
5.6
Speak Easily
as Jenkins
1932
5.6
The Washington Masquerade
as Benedict
1932
6.5
Red-Headed Woman
as Man Wanting to Use Phone Booth (uncredited)
1932
6.5
Letty Lynton
as Waiter (Uncredited)
1932
6.8
The Airmail Mystery
as Driscoll
1932
0.0
The Monster Walks
as Herbert Wilkes
1932
4.1
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
as The Waiter
1932
5.2
Freaks
as Hans' Butler (uncredited)
1932
7.8
A Dangerous Affair
as Plunkett
1931
0.0
Shanghaied Love
as The Rat
1931
0.0
The Phantom of Paris
as Volunteer from Audience (uncredited)
1931
5.9
Sporting Blood
as The Tout (uncredited)
1931
5.1
Subway Express
as Herman Stevens
1931
0.0
The Avenger
as Windy
1931
5.8
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
as Butler
1931
5.2
Dance, Fools, Dance
as Albert (uncredited)
1931
6.4
Thundering Tenors
as The Butler
1931
6.0
Inspiration
as Waiter (uncredited)
1931
5.5
Ten Cents a Dance
as Wilson, Carlton's Butler
1931
6.8
Reducing
as Beasley's Butler
1931
4.3
The Lion and the Lamb
as Stanton
1931
0.0
Along Came Youth
as Bit Role (uncredited)
1930
7.0
Free Love
as Butler
1930
8.0
Playboy of Paris
as Irate Customer (uncredited)
1930
7.0
Follow Thru
as Doctor (uncredited)
1930
7.4
Doughboys
as Recruiter (uncredited)
1930
6.0
Monte Carlo
as Hunchback at Casino (uncredited)
1930
6.5
Anybody's Woman
as Butler
1930
5.9
Wild Company
as Waiter
1930
5.0
The Flirting Widow
as The Second Butler (uncredited)
1930
4.0
Children of Pleasure
as Miles the Butler (uncredited)
1930
4.7
The Second Floor Mystery
as Alfred
1930
0.0
Redemption
as Waiter
1930
4.5
🎬
Oh Darling!
1930
0.0
The Honeymoon
as Navratil
1929
0.0
The Bishop Murder Case
as Pyne (as Sydney Bracey)
1929
5.2
Sioux Blood
as Cheyenne Jones
1929
0.0
His Captive Woman
1929
6.0
Show People
as Dramatic Director
1928
7.1
The Haunted House
as Tully
1928
0.0
The Wedding March
as Navratil
1928
7.0
Home, James
as Haskins (the butler)
1928
0.0
Win That Girl
as Larry Brawn I
1928
0.0
The Cameraman
as Editor
1928
7.8
Man-Made Women
as Owens
1928
0.0
Midnight Madness
as Bream's Valet
1928
0.0
The Matinee Idol
as Don's Valet (uncredited)
1928
6.4
The Crowd
as John's Supervisor (uncredited)
1928
7.6
While the City Sleeps
as Short Order Cook
1928
5.9
The 13th Juror
as The Butler
1927
0.0
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
as Dance Hall Manager (uncredited)
1927
7.8
My Best Girl
as Butler Serving Dinner (uncredited)
1927
7.0
The Woman on Trial
as Brideaux
1927
0.0
🎬
Painting the Town
as Secretary
1927
7.0
Birds of Prey
as Gaston
1927
4.0
My Official Wife
as Valet to Sascha
1926
0.0
The Merry Widow
as Danilo's Footman (uncredited)
1926
6.7
You Never Know Women
as Manager
1926
6.0
The Mystery Club
as Detective
1926
0.0
A Man Four-Square
as Homer Webb
1926
0.0
The Devil's Circus
1926
7.1
The Blackbird
as Bertie's No. 1 Man
1926
6.3
🎬
A Bankrupt Honeymoon
as The Butler
1926
6.0
A Slave of Fashion
as Hobson (as Sidney Bracy)
1925
2.0
Her Market Value
as Banks
1925
0.0
So This Is Marriage?
as Hawkins
1924
0.0
Her Night of Romance
as Butler
1924
6.5
Being Respectable
as Philip Deaby
1924
0.0
Why Men Leave Home
as Sam Neilson
1924
1.0
By Divine Right
as The Hireling
1924
0.0
Leap Year
as Loris Keene's Press Agent (uncredited)
1924
4.8
The Wild Party
as Jasper Johnston
1923
0.0
Ruggles of Red Gap
as Sam Henshaw
1923
0.0
Merry-Go-Round
as Gisella's Groom
1923
6.0
Nobody's Bride
as Smithy
1923
0.0
Manslaughter
as Member of the Jury (uncredited)
1922
5.2
The Dictator
as Henry Bolton
1922
0.0
Is Matrimony a Failure?
as Bank President
1922
0.0
Morals
as Stinson
1921
0.0
Crazy to Marry
as Col. Landis
1921
8.5
The March Hare
as Meadows
1921
0.0
The Outside Woman
as Mr. Cambridge
1921
0.0
Passion Fruit
as The Ancient
1921
0.0
An Amateur Devil
as Hopkins
1920
0.0
Food for Scandal
as Padre
1920
0.0
The Invisible Ray
as Jean Deaux
1920
5.0
The House of Mirth
as Percy Gryce
1918
0.0
A Man's World
as Emile Grimeaux
1918
0.0
My Own United States
as Capt. Rene Gautier
1918
0.0
The Long Trail
as Paul Graham
1917
0.0
Crime and Punishment
as Andreas Valeskoff
1917
0.0
The Ragged Princess
as Toby Rice
1916
0.0
Little Miss Happiness
as Jim Butterfield
1916
0.0
Temptation and the Man
as Jim Crosby
1916
0.0
🎬
Caprice of the Mountains
1916
0.0
Elusive Isabel
as Luiigi
1916
0.0
A Huntress of Men
as Ned Ashley
1916
0.0
The Path of Happiness
as Grekko
1916
0.0
The Man Inside
as Winthrop
1916
0.0
🎬
God's Witness
as Leo Darcy
1915
0.0
Zudora
as Tom Hunt
1914
0.0
The Million Dollar Mystery
as Jones - Hargreave's Butler / Stanley Hargreave
1914
0.0
Uncle's Namesakes
as Uncle John
1913
5.0
Robin Hood
as The Baron
1913
6.0
🎬
Omens and Oracles
1913
0.0
🎬
The Strategy of Ann
1911
0.0