: Made in 1974, Carry On Dick, of the celebrated Carry On series of films, followed the same premise of a country vicar ( Sid James ) who is secretly an outlaw, in this case the highwayman Dick Turpin.

Sid James was soon getting as many laughs as his partner.

James also played characters named Sid in appearances outside of the Carry On films, Sid Abbot in Bless This House on television and its spin-off film, as well as Sid Jones, Sid Turner, Sid Marks, Sid Stone, and Sid Gibson in addition to four characters called just ' Sid '.

There were Carry On films in which James played characters who were not called Sid or Sidney, namely, Carry On Henry ( a parody of Henry VIII ) and Carry On Dick ( a spoof of legendary highwayman Dick Turpin ), in both of which he played the title roles, and Carry On Cleo, in which he played Mark Antony.

Sid James married three times.

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* April 26 – Sid James, South African actor ( b. 1913 )

In 2000, Adam Godley played him in the story of Sid James and Barbara Windsor's love affair, Cor, Blimey!

Sykes also made his first screen appearance at this time in the army film comedy Orders Are Orders ( 1954 ), which also featured Sid James, Tony Hancock, Peter Sellers, Bill Fraser and Donald Pleasence.

* Sid James, actor and Carry On star

* Sid James English-based South African actor and comedian

* Sid Vicious ( Sex Pistols vocalist and bassist, born in Hackney )

* Sid Caesar ( born 1922 ), American comedian and television personality

* Sid Caesar ( born 1922 ), television pioneer known for Your Show of Shows ( former resident )

Sidney K. " Sid " Meier ( born February 24, 1954 ) is a Canadian-American programmer and designer of several popular strategy video games and simulation video games, most notably Civilization.

Sid Meier was born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.

* Sid Bernstein ( born 1918 ), American music producer and promoter

Sid Vicious ( born John Simon Ritchie ; 10 May 1957 – 2 February 1979 ) was an English musician best known as the bassist of the influential punk rock group Sex Pistols.

Sid Vicious was born John Simon Ritchie in Lewisham, South East London, to John and Anne Ritchie ( née McDonald ).

Sid Krofft ( born July 30, 1929 ) and Marty Krofft ( born April 9, 1937 ), are a sibling team of television producers who were influential in children's television and variety show programs in the USA, particularly throughout the 1970s and early 1980s.

The Krofft brothers, Sid and Marty, were born in Montreal.

Isaac Sidney " Sid " Caesar ( born September 8, 1922 ) is an Emmy award winning American comic actor and writer best known for the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, and for his role as Coach Calhoun in Grease and Grease 2.

* Sid Vicious ( musician ) was born in Lewisham

* Young Sid ( born 1986 ), New Zealand rapper and member of hip-hop group Smashproof

Luft was born in Santa Monica, California to Judy Garland ( who was of English, Scottish and Irish descent ) and her third husband, Sid Luft ( who was of German Jewish descent ).

** Sid Abel, ice hockey player and coach ( born 1918 )

Peter Jurasik ( born April 25, 1950 ) is an American actor known for his television roles as Londo Mollari in the 1990s science fiction series Babylon 5 and Sid the Snitch on the 1980s series Hill Street Blues and its short-lived spinoff Beverly Hills Buntz.

Sid Krofft ( born 30 July 1929 ) is a Canadian / American puppeteer and television producer.

Cydus Yolas ( later to be known as Sid Krofft ) was born in 1929 to Peter, a clock salesman, and his wife Mary.

Deborah Spungen ( born 1937 ) is the mother of Nancy Spungen, the girlfriend of punk rocker Sid Vicious, who became known for her autobiography And I Don't Want to Live This Life which details the life with her late daughter.

* One of six players in NHL history to be born in Ireland or Northern Ireland ( Sid Finney, Bobby Kirk, Jim McFadden, Sammy McManus and Jack Riley ).

Peter " Sid " Sidebottom ( born 23 April 1951 ), Australian politician, is an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives between 1998 and 2004 and again since 2007, each time representing the Division of Braddon, Tasmania.

Sidney Raymond " Sid " Eudy ( born July 4, 1960 ) is an American professional wrestler, best known as Sid Vicious in World Championship Wrestling, and as Sid Justice and Sycho Sid in the World Wrestling Federation.

Some of the most prominent names include The Grateful Dead, Tom Waits, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Bobby " Werner " Strete, Mod Fun, Virgil Thomson, Jeff Beck, Chick Corea, Dee Dee Ramone, Johnny Thunders, Phil Lynott, Henri Chopin, John Cale, Édith Piaf, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Alice Cooper, Alejandro Escovedo, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Walker, Canned Heat, Sid Vicious, Vivian Stanshall, Richard Hell, Jobriath Boone, Little Annie, Rufus Wainwright, Lance Loud, Abdullah Ibrahim / Sathima Bea Benjamin / Jean Grae, Vasant Rai, Jacques Labouchere, and Leonard Cohen.

International stars have included Laura Pausini, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Amália Rodrigues, Björk, Abdel Halim Hafez, Dave Matthews Band, Lara Fabian, Willy DeVille, Amália Rodrigues, Lou Reed, Josephine Baker, Annie Cordy, Majida El Roumi, Linda de Suza, The Animals, Petula Clark, Bülent Ersoy, Can, Ewa Demarczyk, Celine Dion, Cher, Deep Purple, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Krall, Dir En Grey, The Doors, Elis Regina, Eric Burdon, War, Fairuz, Dave Gahan, Jeff Buckley, Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation, Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland, Kraftwerk, Nana Mouskouri, Haris Alexiou, Olivera Vuco, Mika, Wings, Paul McCartney, Oliver Dragojevic, Paul Simon, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Sarit Hadad, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Lady Gaga, The Corrs, Lola Beltrán, Luciano Pavarotti, Mariza, Maysa, Liza Minnelli, Morrissey, The Shadows, My Bloody Valentine, Nelly Furtado, New Order, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Phil Collins, Pet Shop Boys, Roger Hodgson, Primal Scream, Stevie Nicks, KISS, Sabah, Scorpions, Simple Minds, Frank Sinatra, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tereza Kesovija, The Beatles, The Cure, The Jackson 5, Barry Manilow, The Mars Volta, Stephen Stills, Yolandita Monge, Otis Redding, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, Tin Machine, Mika, Björk, Umm Kulthum, Zohar Argov, Dionne Warwick, Violetta Villas, The Velvet Underground, Leon Redbone, Leonard Cohen, Manu Dibango, Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, Sid Vicious, James Brown, Alla Pugacheva, Lili Ivanova, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane and Arcade Fire, Zdravko Čolić & Tangerine Dream among many others.

During the early 1960s Rivers lived in the Hotel Chelsea, notable for its artistic residents such as Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Arthur C. Clarke, Dylan Thomas, Sid Vicious and multiple people associated with Andy Warhol's Factory.