United Kingdom, Actor
December 27,
1879 – January, 18, 1954.
Sydney Hughes Greenstreet was a British actor. While he did not work in films until the age of 61, he had a run of significant motion pictures in a Hollywood career lasting for under a decade. He is best remembered for his Warner Bros. films with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre, which include The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), and Passage to Marseille (1944). He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1925. He portrayed Nero Wolfe on radio from 1950 to 1951.
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