Comedic Great Sid Caesar Dies at 91

Contributed by Melissa Thompson and Michelle McCue

One of the all-time giants of comedy, in both film and TV, has sadly passed away. Actor Sid Caesar has died at the age of 91. Larry King announced the news via Twitter, according to Variety.

While he was a TV pioneer with Your Show Of Shows (1950–1954) and Caesar’s Hour (1954–1957), most of us came to know him as ‘Melville Crump’ from director Stanley Kramer’s IT’S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD co-staring Milton Berle, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney and Jonathan Winters, ‘Barney’ in the ensemble disaster movie AIRPORT 1975 and as ‘Coach Calhoun’ in GREASE alongside Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta.

“I don’t take myself too seriously,” he told PEOPLE in 1989. “I just laugh at myself a lot and call myself a dummy.”

Read the full report at Variety HERE.

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