In 1980, Caesar played FBI agent Giuseppe “Joe” Capone in Peter Sellers' last film, THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANCHU. Sellers died two weeks before the film's release.
1986 brought a real oddity to Caesar's filmography. STOOGEMANIA was about a man (Josh Mostel) who was obsessed with The Three Stooges, and saw them everywhere he went. Mostel, Caesar, and Melanie Chartoff basically appeared in short film segments that connected clips from some public domain Three Stooges shorts. (The film was not sanctioned by Columbia, the Stooges' home studio).
In 1987, Caesar starred as the title character in a live action version of the fairy tale THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES. This was one of nine films in the "Cannon Movie-Tales" series produced by Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan in 1987 and 1988.
In 1998, Caesar, along with his old pal Howard Morris from "Your Show of Shows," had bit parts in the fantasy THE WONDERFUL ICE CREAM SUIT, adapted from a story by Ray Bradbury.
Sid Caesar's last two feature film appearances were in documentaries.
2012's LUNCH looked at a group of comic writers, actors, and directors who had gathered together for a bi-weekly lunch and conversation in New York City for 40 years. Caesar was part of that group.
WHEN COMEDY WENT TO SCHOOL was a 2013 documentary that addressed how modern stand-up comedy began in the Catskill Mountains - a boot camp for the greatest generation of Jewish-American comedians.
R.I.P. Sid. You were great in "Your Show Of Shows" and "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World". You have given us so much laughter in the past seven decades. first Shirley Temple, then Sid Caesar. What's the world coming to?
