Sidney M. Gospe(1908-1980)
- Actor
The son of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, during his early childhood his family moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles where he was then educated through the Los Angeles School District. As an undergraduate at the University of California Southern Branch (now UCLA) he was cast as an extra in crowd scenes in a few films. He transferred to the University of California, Berkeley to receive his medical education both in Berkeley and at its hospital in San Francisco (now UCSF), graduating in 1932. Apart from serving as a general surgeon in France from 1944-1946, he practiced obstetrics and gynecology in San Francisco until his death in 1980. One of his patients suggested to director John Korty that Dr. Gospe should be cast as the obstetrician in the opening scene of The Crazy Quilt. The scene was filmed in his office on a weekend.