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Also Known As: Sydney H Greenstreet Died: January 18, 1954
Born: December 27, 1879 Cause of Death: complications from diabetes and Bright's disease
Birth Place: Sandwich, England, GB Profession: actor, tea planter, brewery manager
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Portly English actor with a uniqely insinuating style of line delivery who made a sensational screen debut as the cunning Kaspar Guttman in John Huston's "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) at age 61. Greenstreet subsequently appeared in numerous films as a brilliant schemer and shrewd architect of villainy, memorably opposite Peter Lorre, with change-of-pace sympathetic roles (e.g. "Christmas in Connecticut" 1945) cropping up occasionally.

Portly English actor with a uniqely insinuating style of line delivery who made a sensational screen debut as the cunning Kaspar Guttman in John Huston's "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) at age 61. Greenstreet subsequently appeared in numerous films as a brilliant schemer and shrewd architect of villainy, memorably opposite Peter Lorre, with change-of-pace sympathetic roles (e.g. "Christmas in Connecticut" 1945) cropping up occasionally.

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CAST: (feature film)

1.
 Malaya (1950) The Dutchman
2.
 It's a Great Feeling (1949) Himself
3.
 Flamingo Road (1949) Sheriff Titus Semple
4.
 The Velvet Touch (1948) Captain Danbury
5.
 Ruthless (1948) Buck Mansfield
6.
 The Woman in White (1948) Count [Alesandro] Fosco
7.
 That Way with Women (1947) Jas. P. Alden
8.
 The Hucksters (1947) Evan Llewellyn Evans
9.
 Three Strangers (1946) Jerome K. Arbutny
10.
 Devotion (1946) William Makepeace Thackeray
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1897:
Left family to seek fortune as a tea planter in Ceylon
1902:
Returned home to pursue acting career after drought brought him to ruin
1902:
London stage debut "Sherlock Holmes"
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Appeared on stage mostly with the Lunts
1941:
Made screen debut at age 61 in "The Maltese Falcon"
1950:
Suffering from diabetes and Bright's disease, retired from the screen; last film, "Malaya"
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