Sid Caesar (born September 8, 1922) is an Emmy-winning American comic actor and writer, best known as the leading man on the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows, and to younger generations as Coach Calhoun in Grease and Grease 2.
<p>Isaac Sidney Caesar was born in Yonkers, New York where his father, Max, and mother, Ida, ran a twenty-four-hour luncheonette. Sid would help his parents by waiting on tables and it was during this time that Sid learned to mimic many of the accents he would use throughout his long career. He first tried his double-speak with a group of Italians, his head barely reaching above the table. They enjoyed it so much, they sent him over to a group of Poles to repeat it in Polish, and so on with Russians, Hungarians, Frenchman, Spaniards, Lithuanians, and Bulgarians. Despite his apparent fluency in many languages, in reality Sid can only speak English and Yiddish.
<p>After graduating from high school in 1939, Sid's family was still reeling from the Depression and...
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