Name
Sidney Blackmer
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1895-07-12
Deathday
1973-10-06 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
Biography
Sidney Alderman Blackmer (13 July 1895 – 6 October 1973) was an American actor.
Blackmer was born and raised in Salisbury, North Carolina. He started off in an insurance and financial business but gave up on it. While working as a builder's laborer on a new building, he saw a Pearl White serial being filmed and immediately decided to go into acting. Blackmer went to New York hoping to act on the stage. While in the city, he took jobs and extra work at various film studios at the then motion picture capital, Fort Lee, New Jersey, including a bit part in the highly popular serial, The Perils of Pauline (1914).
He made his Broadway debut in 1917, but his career was interrupted by service in the U.S. military in World War I. After the war, he returned to the theatre and in 1929 returned to motion pictures and went on to be a major character actor in more than 120 films. He won the 1950 Tony Award for Best Actor (Drama) for his role in the Broadway play, Come Back, Little Sheba.
In film, Blackmer is remembered for his more than a dozen portrayals of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and for his role in the Academy Award-winning 1968 Roman Polanski film about urban New York witches, Rosemary's Baby, in which he played an over-solicitous neighbor.
A humanitarian, Blackmer served as the national vice president of the United States Muscular Dystrophy Association. In 1972, he was honored with the North Carolina Award in the Fine Arts category. It is the state of North Carolina's highest civilian award. On his passing in 1973, Blackmer was interred in the Chestnut Hill Cemetery in his hometown of Salisbury, North Carolina.
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- 1968 Rosemary's Baby as Roman Castevet
- 1948 My Girl Tisa as Theodore Roosevelt
- 1956 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt as Austin Spencer
- 1941 Love Crazy as Lawyer George Renny
- 1956 High Society as Seth Lord
- 1951 People Will Talk as Arthur Higgins
- 1946 Duel in the Sun as The Lover
- 1965 How to Murder Your Wife as Judge Blackstone
- 1941 The Great Swindle as Dave Lennox
- 1939 Trapped in the Sky as Mann
- 1931 Little Caesar as Big Boy
- 1939 Within the Law as George Demarest
- 1937 The Last Gangster as San Francisco Editor
- 1943 Quiet Please, Murder as Martin Cleaver
- 1941 The Officer and the Lady as Blake Standish
- 1956 Accused of Murder as Frank Hobart
- 1934 The Count of Monte Cristo as Mondego
- 1937 Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo as Victor Karnoff
- 1939 It's a Wonderful World as Al Mallon
- 1942 Nazi Agent as Arnold Milbar
- 1954 The High and the Mighty as Humphrey Agnew
- 1940 Third Finger, Left Hand as Hughie Wheeler
- 1941 Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime as Anthony Rhodes
- 1936 Heart of the West as Big John Trumbull
- 1944 Broadway Rhythm as Press Agent
- 1942 The Panther's Claw as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
- 1933 Cocktail Hour as Lawton
- 1944 Wilson as Josephus Daniels
- 1937 Thank You, Mr. Moto as Herr Eric Koeger
- 1941 The Feminine Touch as Freddie Bond
- 1938 In Old Chicago as General Phil Sheridan
- 1936 The House of Secrets as Tom Starr
- 1942 Always in My Heart as Philip Ames
- 1935 Behind the Green Lights as Raymond Cortell
- 1936 Missing Girls as Dan Collins
- 1936 The President's Mystery as George Sartos
- 1938 While New York Sleeps as Ralph Simmons
- 1941 Murder Among Friends as Mr. Wheeler
- 1940 Framed as Tony Bowman
- 1939 Convict's Code as Gregory Warren
- 1943 Murder in Times Square as George Nevins
- 1954 Johnny Dark as James Fielding
- 1939 The Monroe Doctrine as Theodore Roosevelt
- 1965 Joy in the Morning as Dean James Darwent
- 1941 Down Mexico Way as Ellery Gibson
- 1944 The Lady and the Monster as Eugene Fulton
- 1930 An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee as Self
- 1933 Good-bye Love as Chester Hamilton
- 1935 False Pretenses as Kenneth Alden
- 1933 From Hell to Heaven as Cliff Billings
- 1935 Shadows of the Orient as King Moss
- 1938 Trade Winds as Thomas Bruhme II
- 1937 The Women Men Marry as Walter Wiley
- 1951 Saturday's Hero as T.C. McCabe
- 1952 Washington Story as Philip Emery
- 1952 The San Francisco Story as Andrew Cain
- 1939 Hotel for Women as McNeil
- 1931 The Lady Who Dared as Charles Townsend
- 1934 This Man Is Mine as Mort Holmes
- 1935 Great God Gold as John Hart
- 1935 The Fire-Trap as Cedric McIntyre
- 1940 Maryland as Spencer Danfield
- 1940 I Want a Divorce as Erskine Brandon
- 1967 A Covenant with Death as Col. Oates
- 1937 John Meade's Woman as Rodney Bentley
- 1934 Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round as Lee Lother
- 1934 Down to Their Last Yacht as Barry Forbes
- 1955 The View from Pompey's Head as Garvin Wales
- 1930 Kismet as Wazir Mansur
- 1938 Suez as Marquis Du Brey
- 1935 A Notorious Gentleman as Clayton Bradford
- 1938 Sharpshooters as Baron Orloff
- 1941 Angels with Broken Wings as Guy Barton
- 1937 Heidi as Sesemann
- 1933 Deluge as Martin Webster
- 1939 Land of Liberty as Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
- 1944 Buffalo Bill as Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
- 1937 Wife, Doctor and Nurse as Dr. Gordon Therberg
- 1935 The Girl Who Came Back as Bill Rhodes
- 1929 The Love Racket
- 1971 Revenge Is My Destiny as Gregory Mann
- 1934 The President Vanishes as D.L. Voorman
- 1933 The Wrecker as Tom Cummings
- 1935 Streamline Express as Gilbert Landon
- 1939 Fast and Loose as "Lucky" Nolan
- 1930 Mothers Cry as Mr. Gerald Hart
- 1940 Teddy the Rough Rider as Theodore Roosevelt
- 1971 Do You Take This Stranger? as G.R. Jarvis
- 1939 Unmarried as Cash Enright
- 1936 Woman Trap as Riley Ferguson
- 1957 Tammy and the Bachelor as Professor Brent
- 1935 Forced Landing as Tony Bernardi
- 1935 Smart Girl as Harry Courtland
- 1931 It's a Wise Child as Steve
- 1930 The Bad Man as Morgan Pell
- 1938 Straight, Place and Show as 'Lucky' Braddock
- 1938 Speed to Burn as Hastings
- 1941 Rookies on Parade as Augustus Moody
- 1943 I Escaped from the Gestapo as Bergen
- 1942 Sabotage Squad as Carlyle Harrison
- 1939 Law of the Pampas as Ralph Merritt
- 1937 This Is My Affair as President Theodore Roosevelt
- 1943 In Old Oklahoma as Teddy Roosevelt
- 1930 Strictly Modern as Heath Desmond
- 1937 A Doctor's Diary as Dr. Anson Ludlow
- 1940 Dance, Girl, Dance as Puss in Boots
- 1941 Cheers for Miss Bishop as John Stevens
- 1930 Sweethearts and Wives as Anthony Peel
- 1935 The Little Colonel as Swazey
- 1936 Early to Bed as Rex Daniels
- 1936 Florida Special as Jack Macklyn
- 1956 The Little Foxes as Ben
- 1942 Obliging Young Lady as Henry - George's Attorney
- 1959 What Makes Sammy Run? as H.L. Harrington
- 1948 A Song Is Born as Adams
- 1937 Girl Overboard as Alex LeMaire
- 1942 Gallant Lady as Steve Carey
- 1931 Woman Hungry as Geoffrey Brand
- 1938 Down on the Farm as Political Boss
- 1942 March On, America! as Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1929 A Most Immoral Lady as Humphrey Sergeant
- 1937 Michael O'Halloran as Jim Mintum
- 1958 Strange Witness as Christopher
- 1914 Beating Back
- 1950 Farewell to Yesterday as Self - Narrator(voice)
- 1962 Stampede at Bitter Creek as Sam Underwood
- 1961 Cain's Hundred ( 1 episode ) as Joseph Callan
- 1966 The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. ( 1 episode ) as Professor Antrum
- 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame ( 1 episode )
- 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( 1 episode ) as Frank Partridge
- 1961 Target: The Corruptors! ( 1 episode )
- 1964 Daniel Boone ( 1 episode ) as Jasper Ledbedder
- 1960 Thriller ( 1 episode ) as Edward Stapleton
- 1954 Climax! ( 1 episode ) as Prrof. Watson
- 1964 Profiles in Courage ( 1 episode ) as Oscar W. Underwood
- 1955 Matinee Theater ( 2 episodes )
- 1956 The Adventures of Jim Bowie ( 3 episodes )
- 1948 The Philco Television Playhouse ( 2 episodes ) as Marvin Platt
- 1958 Wanted: Dead or Alive ( 1 episode ) as Judge Cooper
- 1958 The Rifleman ( 2 episodes )
- 1961 Ben Casey ( 5 episodes )
- 1958 The Texan ( 1 episode )
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as Christopher
- 1949 Suspense ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Steven Archer
- 1950 Robert Montgomery Presents ( 1 episode )
- 1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Judge Hanavan
- 1951 Tales of Tomorrow ( 1 episode )
- 1949 Lights Out ( 1 episode )
- 1961 Dr. Kildare ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Carleton Lantzinge
- 1963 The Outer Limits ( 1 episode ) as William Lyons Selby
- 1955 The Star and the Story ( 1 episode )
- 1961 Dr. Kildare ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Andrew Bennett
- 1950 Robert Montgomery Presents ( 1 episode ) as Vardis Ward
- 1950 Robert Montgomery Presents ( 1 episode ) as Julian Prescott
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1968 The Name of the Game ( 1 episode ) as Roman Stepanak
- 1968 The Name of the Game ( 1 episode ) as Clarence Dunhill
- 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( 1 episode ) as Otis Jones
- 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame ( 1 episode ) as Ben
- 1954 Climax! ( 1 episode ) as Frank Bellason
- 1949 Suspense ( 2 episodes )
- 1948 The Philco Television Playhouse ( 2 episodes )
- 1958 The Rifleman ( 1 episode ) as Judge Hanavan
- 1950 Armstrong Circle Theatre ( 1 episode )
- 1958 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Woodson
- 1952 The Ford Television Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Wade Anthony
