Sidney Bracey

Acting · 0.3 popularity

Age

148

Movies

224

Born: December 17, 1877 – August 5, 1942
From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Biography

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.

Works

224 films

Freaks

19327.8

Show People

19287.2

Duck Soup

19337.3

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

19277.8

The Cameraman

19287.8

A Star Is Born

19377.2

The 9th Guest

19346.0

Anna Karenina

19356.6

Dark Victory

19396.9

The Baroness and the Butler

19385.3

Zudora

1914

Wife vs. Secretary

19366.7

San Francisco

19366.6

The Little Princess

19396.7

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

19387.0

Shall We Dance

19377.3

Our Daily Bread

19346.7

Everybody's Hobby

19396.3

The Emperor's Candlesticks

19374.9

What! No Beer?

19335.7

Easy Living

19377.2

The Deemster

1917

Broadway Bill

19346.0

Les Misérables

19357.1

Devil's Island

19395.7

Only Yesterday

19337.1

Forsaking All Others

19346.0

Letty Lynton

19327.0

So This Is Marriage?

19247.0

The Crowd

19287.6

The Vanishing Shadow

19347.1

The Old Maid

19397.1

Hard to Get

19386.3

Isle of Fury

19365.5

Red-Headed Woman

19326.6

Ten Cents a Dance

19316.8

My Official Wife

19268.0

The Washington Masquerade

19326.8

Invisible Stripes

19396.2

Dance, Fools, Dance

19316.4

Merry-Go-Round

19236.3

Dangerously They Live

19416.3

Fight for Your Lady

19375.6

Indianapolis Speedway

19395.6

Brother Orchid

19406.6

The Girl Downstairs

19384.7

The Matinee Idol

19286.6

Rendezvous

19354.9

Dust Be My Destiny

19396.5

Merrily We Live

19386.9

You Can't Get Away with Murder

19395.8

Maid of Salem

19376.2

The Great Mr. Nobody

19416.0

King of the Underworld

19396.4

Home, James

19287.0

Naughty but Nice

19396.8

Four Wives

19395.5

The Lion and the Lamb

19317.0

The Woman Who Dared

19338.0

Charlie Chan at the Race Track

19367.1

A Child is Born

19397.1

Murder at Glen Athol

19367.0

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath

19315.3

The Dawn Patrol

19386.8

Mills of the Gods

19348.0

A Slave of Fashion

19256.0

The Intruder

19334.6

What Every Woman Knows

19347.6

Queen Kelly

19296.5

Sutter's Gold

19367.0

Manslaughter

19225.5

The Notorious Sophie Lang

19346.7

Redemption

19305.7

Smashing the Money Ring

19395.8

The Avenger

19316.0

Anybody's Woman

19306.6

Arsène Lupin Returns

19386.3

The Merry Widow

19266.7

No Time for Comedy

19405.3

The Preview Murder Mystery

19365.8

The Body Disappears

19416.1

The Firefly

19376.5

The Rage of Paris

19385.8

We Are Not Alone

19396.9

Secret Service of the Air

19396.1

Breakfast for Two

19375.9

Bulldog Drummond's Revenge

19376.0

Fast and Furious

19395.2

Is Matrimony a Failure?

192210.0

The Mystery Club

192610.0

Massacre

19345.5

Doughboys

19306.1

The Phantom of the Air

19337.0

Tugboat Annie Sails Again

19406.0

I'll Fix It

19349.0

Women in the Wind

19396.8

One Rainy Afternoon

19365.0

My Best Girl

19277.1

Sporting Blood

19315.4

Birds of Prey

19276.5

Comet Over Broadway

19385.7

He Was Her Man

19346.5

Sinner Take All

19364.9

The Phantom of Paris

19316.0

Monte Carlo

19306.5

Let 'em Have It

19357.6

The Blackbird

19266.4

Criminal Lawyer

19376.5

The Winning Ticket

19354.3

Magnificent Obsession

19357.4

Sworn Enemy

19365.8

Wild Company

19307.0

Follow Thru

19307.6

Torchy Runs for Mayor

19395.9

One Wonderful Night

19227.0

My Bill

19386.6

Playboy of Paris

19307.0

The Bill of Rights

19396.5

This Woman Is Mine

19414.5

Children of Pleasure

19305.5

The Little Giant

19337.0

The Wrong Road

19374.8

Espionage Agent

19396.3

The Casino Murder Case

19356.8

Broken Dreams

19336.5

A Dangerous Affair

19317.0

The Airmail Mystery

193210.0

The Voice of Bugle Ann

19365.5

Reducing

19315.1

Inspiration

19315.9

You Never Know Women

19266.1

The Sun Never Sets

19395.5

Back Page

19337.0

She Had to Eat

19375.6

The Wild Party

19238.0

The Poor Rich

19348.0

The Greeks Had a Word for Them

19325.6

Bullets for O'Hara

19415.0

Sweepstakes Winner

19395.3

The Monster Walks

19324.2

Outcast Lady

19347.3

Shanghaied Love

19319.0

Nobody's Bride

19237.0

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

19446.3

Many Happy Returns

19345.3

A Very Honorable Guy

19346.0

The Social Buccaneer

19237.0

A Night at the Movies

19375.9

Call It a Day

19377.0

The Second Floor Mystery

19308.0

Laughing Boy

19343.7

Subway Express

193110.0

Little Orphan Annie

19326.4

Free Love

19307.5

My Love Came Back

19404.9

Midnight Madness

19289.0

His Captive Woman

19298.0

The Littlest Diplomat

19374.4

While the City Sleeps

19286.3

Invisible Enemy

19387.5

Saturday's Millions

19337.0

Along Came Youth

19307.3

The Wedding March

19287.1

Love Is a Headache

19386.5

Leap Year

19245.2

The House of Mirth

1918

The Haunted House

19287.0

Thundering Tenors

19318.0

Corruption

19336.0

Robin Hood

19136.0

Food for Scandal

19208.0

The Declaration of Independence

19386.7

Rhythm in the Clouds

19377.5

Win That Girl

192810.0

Caprice of the Mountains

1916

The Bishop Murder Case

19295.4

Speak Easily

19325.7

Her Market Value

19258.0

Trouble for Two

19366.5

Second Childhood

19367.3

The Honeymoon

19297.0

Little Miss Happiness

1916

The Dictator

19228.0

On Trial

19396.1

The Devil's Circus

19266.8

Crazy to Marry

19217.8

Man-Made Women

19289.0

The March Hare

192110.0

A Bankrupt Honeymoon

19266.5

Her Night of Romance

19246.8

Elusive Isabel

1916

Being Respectable

19249.0

Why Men Leave Home

19243.0

The Flirting Widow

19305.7

Crime and Punishment

191710.0

An Amateur Devil

19208.0

The Invisible Ray

19206.0

The Million Dollar Mystery

1914

Morals

192110.0

The 13th Juror

19279.0

A Man Four-Square

19269.0

The Ragged Princess

1916

Tangled Destinies

19325.8

Passion Fruit

19218.0

Sioux Blood

19299.0

By Divine Right

19248.0

The Woman on Trial

192710.0

Changing of the Guard

19365.7

The Outside Woman

192110.0

Painting the Town

19277.5

Oh Darling!

19309.0

My Own United States

1918

Three Smart Boys

19376.8

The Strategy of Ann

191110.0

The Path of Happiness

1916

A Huntress of Men

1916

A Man's World

1918

Ruggles of Red Gap

19237.0

God's Witness

1915

Temptation and the Man

1916

The Long Trail

1917

Omens and Oracles

1913

Uncle's Namesakes

19136.5

The Man Inside

1916