AKA: Sydney H Greenstreet
Nationality: English
Birthdate: 12/27/1879
Birthplace: Sandwich, England, United Kingdom
Death Date: 01/18/1954
Portly English actor with a uniqely insinuating style of line delivery who made a sensational screen debut as the cunning Kaspar Guttman in John Huston's "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) at age 61. Greenstreet subsequently appeared in numerous films as a brilliant schemer and shrewd architect of villainy, memorably opposite Peter Lorre, with change-of-pace sympathetic roles (e.g. "Christmas in Connecticut" 1945) cropping up occasionally.
1897
Left family to seek fortune as a tea planter in Ceylon
1902
Returned home to pursue acting career after drought brought him to ruin
1902
London stage debut "Sherlock Holmes"
Appeared on stage mostly with the Lunts
1941
Made screen debut at age 61 in "The Maltese Falcon"
