Sydney Hughes Greenstreet was a British and American character actor. While he did not begin his career in films until the age of 61, he had a run of significant motion pictures in a Hollywood career
Greenstreet in NBC radio's The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe (1950)
Greenstreet and Peter Lorre in The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Greenstreet in Across the Pacific (1942)
Greenstreet and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca (1942)
The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 American film noir written and directed by John Huston, marking Huston's directorial debut. It is the third film adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel, following the
Sydney Greenstreet
…he had a run of significant motion pictures in a Hollywood career lasting through the 1940s. He is best remembered for the three Warner Bros. films – The Maltese Falcon (1941, his first film role), Casablanca (1942), and Passage to Marseille (1944) – with both Humphrey Bogart (five films total with Greenstreet) and…
Theatrical release poster
Spade confronts O'Shaughnessy.
A promotional still showing O'Shaughnessy and Cairo clashing in front of the police