Sid Caesar

Started career as a musician; played clarinet and saxophone in small bands and later in the orchestras of Charlie Spivak, Shep Fields and Charlie Thornhill. Turned to acting while serving in the Coast Guard during WWII; first stage performance was in the military musical Tars and Spars . His signature double-talk routines were inspired by listening to customers speak foreign languages in his father's restaurant as a child. His hit variety show, Your Show of Shows, helped launch the careers of… Show more comedy writers Mel Brooks, Neil and Danny Simon, and Carl Reiner in the 1950s. Inducted into the TV Academy Hall of Fame in 1985. Has published two autobiographies: Where Have I Been? (1982) and Caesar's Hours: My Life in Comedy, With Love and Laughter  (2003). Married to wife, Florence, for 67 years; she died in March 2010. ~ Rovi

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