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person_profile-Andy Sidaris

Andy Sidaris Died at age: 76

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Andy Sidaris

Date of Birth:

Feb 20, 1931

Country of birth:

U.S.

Died:

Mar 07, 2007

Biography of

Andy Sidaris

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Andrew W. "Andy" Sidaris (February 20, 1931 – March 7, 2007) was an American television and film director, film producer, actor, and screenwriter.

    Sidaris was best known for his Bullets, Bombs, and Babes or Bullets, Bombs, and Boobs (BBB for short) series of B-movies produced between 1985 and 1998. These films featured a rotating "stock company" of actors mostly made up of Playboy Playmates and Penthouse "Pets", including Julie Strain, Dona Speir, Hope Marie Carlton, Cynthia Brimhall, Roberta Vasquez, Julie K. Smith, Shae Marks, and Wendy Hamilton. Several of his films were done wholly or largely in Shreveport using many local actors or actors with local ties.

    Before the B-movies, Sidaris was a pioneer in sports television. He directed coverage of hundreds of football and basketball games, Olympic events, and special programs and won seven Emmy awards for his work in the field. His best known work was with ABC's Wide World of Sports; he was the show's first director, and continued in that post for 25 years.

    Sidaris pioneered what he called the "honey shot", close-ups of cheerleaders and pretty girls in the stands at sporting events. He won an Emmy Award in 1969 for directing the Summer Olympics. He expanded into dramatic television in the 1970s, directing episodes of programs like Gemini Man (1976), CBS's Kojak (mid-1970s), ABC's The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (late-1970s) and ABC's Monday Night Football.

    He expanded into film, specializing in action flicks featuring buxom gun-toting Playboy Playmates and Penthouse Pets with titles like Fit to Kill and Savage Beach. Most of Sidaris' "Triple B" series (later given the title L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies) focused on the adventures of a team of secret agents and were mostly filmed in Hawaii. Several entries in the series were merely produced by him and were written and directed by others. Although the series featured recurring characters, continuity between films was not a priority and it was common for an actress who played a villain (and was killed off) in one film to re-appear in a subsequent film as a hero.

    With his wife, Arlene T. Sidaris (born ca. 1942) as his production partner, Sidaris made twelve films. After Sidaris' death, she runs the official websites of his twelve films.

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Andy Sidaris

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Filmography of

Andy Sidaris

Found 13 Movies in total

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Andy Sidaris ( Actor )

... 2009

... 2002

... 2001

The Bare Wench Project

Dick Bigdickian ( Actor )

... 2000

Some Nudity Required

Himself ( Actor )

... 1998

The Dallas Connection

Forensics Investigator in Locker Room (uncredited) ( Actor )

Executive Producer

... 1994

Do or Die

Restaurant owner wearing apron (uncredited) ( Actor )

Writer

... 1991

Savage Beach

Honolulu CB radio operator (uncredited) ( Actor )

Writer

... 1989

Picasso Trigger

Whitey (uncredited) ( Actor )

Writer

... 1988

Hard Ticket to Hawaii

Whitey the TV director (uncredited) ( Actor )

Writer

... 1987

Malibu Express

Winnebago Driver (uncredited) ( Actor )

Writer

... 1985

Two-Minute Warning

TV Director ( Actor )

... 1976

Bullets, Bombs and Babes - Making of

Self / Archive Footage (uncredited) ( Actor )

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