Sidney Easton
Sidney Easton (October 2, 1885 – December 24, 1971) was an African-American actor, stage performer, playwright, composer, vocalist, and pianist. He worked as a performer in minstrel shows, carnivals, burlesque, and vaudeville. Starting in the 1930s he appeared in films.
Killer Diller
as Policeman (as Sid Easton)An all-Black comedy and dance revue with stars of stage and screen.
Movie pageHis Woman
as MarkTough Caribbean freighter Captain Sam Whelan engages Sally Clark, a tramp masquerading as a...
Movie pageA Rhapsody in Black and Blue
as Husband (uncredited)A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he...
Movie pageCab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
as Sam, train porterThis jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway...
Movie pageWayward
as GeorgeStory of a mother's antagonism to her son's wife. Based on the novel "Wild Beauty" by Mateel...
Movie pageParadise in Harlem
as Sneeze Ancrum (as Sydney Easton)It is the story of a comedian Lem Anderson who dreams of playing in Shakespeare scenes but he is...
Movie pageOuanga
as JacksonIn Haiti, a black female plantation owner enacts a voodoo curse, and revives zombies for revenge...
Movie pageBoarding House Blues
as Boo Boo (as Sid Easton)In order to save their home, tenants of a boarding house put on a show.
Movie pageMurder on Lenox Avenue
as Speed SimmonsDramatic events in a Harlem apartment house center around Pa Wilkins, chosen by the Better...
Movie pageFight That Ghost
as Spooky LightningPigmeat and Shorty, who own "Pigmeat and Shorty's Bootery", are told by their landlord to either...
Movie pageI Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket
as Doorman (uncredited)Walter Winchell meets a budding country journalist and shows her around the Biltmore Hotel.
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