Sidney Bracey
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.
Filmography (223 Appearances)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Dangerously They Live
The Body Disappears
This Woman Is Mine
Bullets for O'Hara
The Great Mr. Nobody
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
No Time for Comedy
My Love Came Back
Brother Orchid
Invisible Stripes
Four Wives
A Child is Born
We Are Not Alone
Smashing the Money Ring
Fast and Furious
Espionage Agent
Dust Be My Destiny
Everybody's Hobby
The Bill of Rights
The Old Maid
Indianapolis Speedway
Naughty But Nice
The Sun Never Sets
Sweepstakes Winner
Torchy Runs for Mayor
Dark Victory
Women in the Wind
On Trial
You Can't Get Away with Murder
The Little Princess
Secret Service of the Air
King of the Underworld
Devil's Island
The Dawn Patrol
The Girl Downstairs
Comet Over Broadway
The Declaration of Independence
Hard to Get
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
My Bill
The Rage of Paris
Invisible Enemy
Merrily We Live
Arsène Lupin Returns
The Baroness and the Butler
Love Is a Headache
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
A Night at the Movies
Fight for Your Lady
The Firefly
Breakfast for Two
The Wrong Road
The Littlest Diplomat
Easy Living
The Emperor's Candlesticks
She Had to Eat
Rhythm in the Clouds
Three Smart Boys
Shall We Dance
A Star Is Born
Call It a Day
Maid of Salem
Criminal Lawyer
Sinner Take All
Isle of Fury
Sworn Enemy
Charlie Chan at the Race Track
San Francisco
Changing of the Guard
Trouble for Two
One Rainy Afternoon
Second Childhood
Sutter's Gold
The Preview Murder Mystery
Wife vs. Secretary
Murder at Glen Athol
The Voice of Bugle Ann
Magnificent Obsession
Rendezvous
Anna Karenina
Let 'em Have It
Les Misérables
The Casino Murder Case
The Winning Ticket
Forsaking All Others
Mills of the Gods
Broadway Bill
I'll Fix It
What Every Woman Knows
Our Daily Bread
Outcast Lady
The Notorious Sophie Lang
He Was Her Man
Many Happy Returns
The Vanishing Shadow
A Very Honorable Guy
Laughing Boy
The Poor Rich
The 9th Guest
Massacre
Duck Soup
Back Page
Only Yesterday
Broken Dreams
Saturday's Millions
Corruption
The Phantom of the Air
The Little Giant
The Woman Who Dared
The Intruder
What! No Beer?
Little Orphan Annie
Tangled Destinies
Speak Easily
The Washington Masquerade
Red-Headed Woman
Letty Lynton
The Airmail Mystery
The Monster Walks
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Freaks
A Dangerous Affair
Shanghaied Love
The Phantom of Paris
Sporting Blood
Subway Express
The Avenger
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
Thundering Tenors
Dance, Fools, Dance
Inspiration
Ten Cents a Dance
Reducing
The Lion and the Lamb
Along Came Youth
Free Love
Playboy of Paris
Follow Thru
Doughboys
Monte Carlo
Anybody's Woman
Wild Company
The Flirting Widow
The Second Floor Mystery
Children of Pleasure
Redemption
Oh Darling!
Queen Kelly
The Honeymoon
The Bishop Murder Case
Sioux Blood
His Captive Woman
Show People
The Haunted House
The Wedding March
Home, James
Win That Girl
The Cameraman
Man-Made Women
Midnight Madness
The Matinee Idol
The Crowd
While the City Sleeps
The 13th Juror
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
My Best Girl
The Woman on Trial
Painting the Town
Birds of Prey
My Official Wife
The Merry Widow
You Never Know Women
The Mystery Club
A Man Four-Square
The Devil's Circus
The Blackbird
A Bankrupt Honeymoon
A Slave of Fashion
Her Market Value
So This Is Marriage?
Her Night of Romance
Being Respectable
Why Men Leave Home
By Divine Right
Leap Year
The Wild Party
Ruggles of Red Gap
Merry-Go-Round
Nobody's Bride
One Wonderful Night
Manslaughter
The Dictator
Is Matrimony a Failure?
Morals
Crazy to Marry
The March Hare
The Outside Woman
Passion Fruit
An Amateur Devil
Food for Scandal
The Invisible Ray
The House of Mirth
A Man's World
My Own United States
The Long Trail
The Deemster
Crime and Punishment
The Ragged Princess
Little Miss Happiness
Temptation and the Man
Caprice of the Mountains
Elusive Isabel
A Huntress of Men
The Path of Happiness
The Man Inside
God's Witness
Zudora
The Million Dollar Mystery
Uncle's Namesakes
Robin Hood
Omens and Oracles
The Strategy of Ann