Scott Sidney on AllMovie

Although hardly remembered today, American silent-screen director Scott Sidney helmed several well-appointed comedies in the 1920s, including a version of Charley's Aunt (1925), starring Charles Chaplin's talented brother Sydney Chaplin, and The Nervous Wreck (1926), which later metamorphosed into Whoopee, a Broadway and screen hit for Eddie Cantor. Having begun his screen career with Thomas H. Ince's New York Motion Picture Company, for whom he claimed to have "produced 80 one- and two-reel subjects," Sidney went on to direct Desert Gold (1914), based on Frank Norris' monumental novel McTeague; the Tarzan serials Tarzan of the Apes and The Adventures of Tarzan (1921); and a string of mostly low-budget comedies for the waning Biograph Company. He died while in England overseeing the making of Alf's Carpet (1928), which he had helped write.