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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:"OhCrap [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons I certainly shouldn't have said it was illegal. Ah, it's too hot today]]..."]] |
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4 | Sydney Hughes Greenstreet (27 December 1879 – 18 January 1954) was a British-American actor. While he did not begin his career in films until the age of 61, he had a run of significant motion pictures in a Hollywood career lasting through the 1940s. Greenstreet is best remembered for his Warner Bros. films with Creator/HumphreyBogart and Creator/PeterLorre, which include ''The Maltese Falcon'', ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' (1942), and ''Film/PassageToMarseille'' (1944). Greenstreet portrayed Literature/NeroWolfe on radio during 1950 and 1951. |
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6 | Greenstreet suffered from diabetes and a kidney disorder known as Bright's disease. He eventually died in 1954 in Hollywood due to complications from both conditions. |
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8 | Expect a character based on Greenstreet to turn up in any FilmNoir parody. He also provided inspiration for Marvel's [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin Wilson Fisk a.k.a. the Kingpin]], as well as Jabba the Hutt of ''Franchise/StarWars'' fame. |
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10 | !!Sydney Greenstreet on TV Tropes: |
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12 | * ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon|1941}}'' (1941) as Kasper Gutman |
13 | * ''Film/TheyDiedWithTheirBootsOn'' (1941) as Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott |
14 | * ''Film/AcrossThePacific'' (1942) as Dr. Lorenz |
15 | * ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' (1942) as Signor Ferrari |
16 | * ''Film/PassageToMarseille'' (1944) as Major Duval |
17 | * ''[[Literature/ACoffinForDimitrios The Mask of Dimitrios]]'' (1944) as Mr. Peters |
18 | * ''Film/ChristmasInConnecticut'' (1945) as Alexander Yardley |
19 | * ''Film/TheHucksters'' (1947) as Evan |
20 | * ''Film/TheVelvetTouch'' (1948) as Capt. Danbury |
21 | * ''Literature/TheWomanInWhite'' (1948) as Count Alessandro Fosco |
22 | * ''Film/{{Ruthless}}'' (1948) as Buck Mansfield |
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