Director
George Sidney
110 years · Long Island City, New York, USA · 48 films
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Sidney (October 4, 1916 – May 5, 2002) was an American film director and film producer who worked primarily at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Sidney was assigned to direct the Our Gang comedies in 1938. After a year of working on these shorts, he moved on to the Crime Does Not Pay series and popular Pete Smith specialties. He graduated to directing features in 1941. He then worked his way into directing large scale musicals such as The Harvey Girls (1946), The Three Musketeers (1948), Annie Get Your Gun (1950), and Kiss Me Kate (1953). Sidney left MGM to make The Eddy Duchin Story (1956) at Columbia Pictures, where he made his base for the next decade for such films as Jeanne Eagels (1957), Pal Joey (1957), Who Was That Lady? (1960), Pepe (1960), and Bye Bye Birdie (1963). He would return to MGM to film A Ticklish Affair (1963) and Elvis Presley's Viva Las Vegas (1964). His last film was Half a Sixpence (1967). Sidney was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award four times, starting with the lush Technicolor remake of Show Boat. In 1958 he was presented with a Golden Globe Award for Best World Entertainment through Musical Films. For his work in the art of cinema, George Sidney was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Best known for
Filmography 48
Filmmakers in Action
2006 · Self (archive footage)
Rita
2003 · Self
The Republic Pictures Story
1991 · Self
Half a Sixpence
1967 · Director, Producer
On Hoopla
The Swinger
1966 · Director, Producer
Viva Las Vegas
1964 · Director, Producer
On Hoopla
A Ticklish Affair
1963 · Director
Bye Bye Birdie
1963 · Director, Producer
On Howdy Amazon Channel
Pepe
1960 · Director, Producer
Who Was That Lady?
1960 · Director
Pal Joey
1957 · Director
On YouTube TV
Jeanne Eagels
1957 · Director, Producer
The Eddy Duchin Story
1956 · Director
On YouTube Free
Jupiter's Darling
1955 · Director
On TCM
Kiss Me Kate
1953 · Director
On Plex
Young Bess
1953 · Director
On HBO Max
Scaramouche
1952 · Director
Show Boat
1951 · Director
On Public Domain Movies
Annie Get Your Gun
1950 · Director
On YouTube Free
Key to the City
1950 · Director
On TCM
The Red Danube
1949 · Director
The Three Musketeers
1948 · Director
Cass Timberlane
1947 · Director
Holiday in Mexico
1946 · Director