Sidney Easton
View on IMDb ↗Sidney Easton (October 2, 1885 – December 24, 1971) was an African-American actor, stage performer, playwright, composer, vocalist, and pianist. He worked as a performer in minstrel shows, carnivals, burlesque, and vaudeville. Starting in the 1930s he appeared in films.
Known for
Sunday Sinners
What Goes Up
Fight That Ghost
I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
Wayward
A Rhapsody in Black and Blue
Ouanga
Boarding House Blues
Killer DillerFilmography (17)
- 1948
Boarding House BluesBoo Boo (as Sid Easton) - 1948
Killer DillerPoliceman (as Sid Easton) - 1947The Story of Mr. HobbsBen - Winston's Butler
- 1946
Fight That GhostSpooky Lightning - 1941
Murder on Lenox AvenueSpeed Simmons - 1940
Sunday SinnersBootsie - 1939
What Goes Up - 1939
Paradise in HarlemSneeze Ancrum (as Sydney Easton) - 1935
OuangaJackson - 1934
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-HoSam, train porter - 1933
I Know Everybody and Everybody's RacketDoorman (uncredited) - 1932The Musical DoctorPatient on gurney (uncredited)
- 1932
WaywardGeorge - 1932
A Rhapsody in Black and BlueHusband (uncredited) - 1931Be Like MeGeorge (uncredited)
- 1931
His WomanMark - 1926The Conjure Woman