Believe it or not, Sydney Greenstreet does not have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The only picture in which Peter Lorre was billed above Sydney Greenstreet was the first one in which they appeared together--The Maltese Falcon.
Sydney and frequent co-star Peter Lorre both suffered from diabetes.
Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre appeared in eight movies together.
In an interview, Sydney once stated that he took up acting in order to relieve the boredom of his everyday life.
Greenstreet co-starred with Errol Flynn in They Died with Their Boots On which was based on the life of General George Armstrong Custer.
Greenstreet is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetary in Glendale, CA.
During the 1930's, Greenstreet worked mainly at the Theatre Guild with famed stage actors Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne.
His father was a leather merchant.
Greenstreet's final film was Malaya, made in 1949. He co-starred with Spencer Tracy and James Stewart.
Greenstreet played a police detective in the 1948 film The Velvet Touch in which he co-starred with Rosiland Russell and Claire Trevor.
Greenstreet appeared with Humphrey Bogart in five movies: The Maltese Falcon, Across the Pacific, Casablanca, Passage to Marseilles, and Conflict.
He was married to Dorothy Marie Ogden. They had one son--Jon Ogden Greenstreet.
Played Nero Wolfe on NBC's The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe from 1950-1 on the radio.
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