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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 12, 1895
Place of Birth:
Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
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Sidney Blackmer
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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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Revenge Is My Destiny | Gregory Mann |
| 1971 | Do You Take This Stranger? | G.R. Jarvis |
| 1968 | Rosemary's Baby | Roman Castevet |
| 1967 | A Covenant with Death | Col. Oates |
| 1965 | How to Murder Your Wife | Judge Blackstone |
| 1965 | Joy in the Morning | Dean James Darwent |
| 1959 | What Makes Sammy Run? | H.L. Harrington |
| 1958 | Strange Witness | Christopher |
| 1957 | Tammy and the Bachelor | Professor Brent |
| 1956 | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Austin Spencer |
| 1956 | High Society | Seth Lord |
| 1956 | Accused of Murder | Frank Hobart |
| 1956 | The Little Foxes | Ben |
| 1955 | The View from Pompey's Head | Garvin Wales |
| 1954 | The High and the Mighty | Humphrey Agnew |
| 1954 | Johnny Dark | James Fielding |
| 1952 | Washington Story | Philip Emery |
| 1952 | The San Francisco Story | Andrew Cain |
| 1951 | People Will Talk | Arthur Higgins |
| 1951 | Saturday's Hero | T.C. McCabe |
| 1948 | My Girl Tisa | Theodore Roosevelt |
| 1948 | A Song Is Born | Adams |
| 1946 | Duel in the Sun | The Lover |
| 1944 | Broadway Rhythm | Press Agent |
| 1944 | Wilson | Josephus Daniels |
| 1944 | The Lady and the Monster | Eugene Fulton |
| 1944 | Buffalo Bill | Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Quiet Please, Murder | Martin Cleaver |
| 1943 | Murder in Times Square | George Nevins |
| 1943 | I Escaped from the Gestapo | Bergen |
| 1943 | In Old Oklahoma | Teddy Roosevelt |
| 1942 | Nazi Agent | Arnold Milbar |
| 1942 | The Panther's Claw | Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt |
| 1942 | Always in My Heart | Philip Ames |
| 1942 | Sabotage Squad | Carlyle Harrison |
| 1942 | Obliging Young Lady | Henry - George's Attorney |
| 1942 | Gallant Lady | Steve Carey |
| 1942 | March On, America! | Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Love Crazy | Lawyer George Renny |
| 1941 | The Great Swindle | Dave Lennox |
| 1941 | The Officer and the Lady | Blake Standish |
| 1941 | Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime | Anthony Rhodes |
| 1941 | The Feminine Touch | Freddie Bond |
| 1941 | Murder Among Friends | Mr. Wheeler |
| 1941 | Down Mexico Way | Ellery Gibson |
| 1941 | Angels with Broken Wings | Guy Barton |
| 1941 | Rookies on Parade | Augustus Moody |
| 1941 | Cheers for Miss Bishop | John Stevens |
| 1940 | Third Finger, Left Hand | Hughie Wheeler |
| 1940 | Framed | Tony Bowman |
| 1940 | Maryland | Spencer Danfield |
| 1940 | I Want a Divorce | Erskine Brandon |
| 1940 | Teddy the Rough Rider | Theodore Roosevelt |
| 1940 | Dance, Girl, Dance | Puss in Boots |
| 1939 | Trapped in the Sky | Mann |
| 1939 | Within the Law | George Demarest |
| 1939 | It's a Wonderful World | Al Mallon |
| 1939 | Convict's Code | Gregory Warren |
| 1939 | The Monroe Doctrine | Theodore Roosevelt |
| 1939 | Hotel for Women | McNeil |
| 1939 | Land of Liberty | Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider') |
| 1939 | Fast and Loose | "Lucky" Nolan |
| 1939 | Unmarried | Cash Enright |
| 1939 | Law of the Pampas | Ralph Merritt |
| 1938 | In Old Chicago | General Phil Sheridan |
| 1938 | While New York Sleeps | Ralph Simmons |
| 1938 | Trade Winds | Thomas Bruhme II |
| 1938 | Suez | Marquis Du Brey |
| 1938 | Sharpshooters | Baron Orloff |
| 1938 | Straight, Place and Show | 'Lucky' Braddock |
| 1938 | Speed to Burn | Hastings |
| 1938 | Down on the Farm | Political Boss |
| 1937 | The Last Gangster | San Francisco Editor |
| 1937 | Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo | Victor Karnoff |
| 1937 | Thank You, Mr. Moto | Herr Eric Koeger |
| 1937 | The Women Men Marry | Walter Wiley |
| 1937 | John Meade's Woman | Rodney |
| 1937 | Heidi | Sesemann |
| 1937 | Wife, Doctor and Nurse | Dr. Gordon Therberg |
| 1937 | This Is My Affair | President Theodore Roosevelt |
| 1937 | A Doctor's Diary | Dr. Anson Ludlow |
| 1937 | Girl Overboard | Alex LeMaire |
| 1937 | Michael O'Halloran | Jim Mintum |
| 1936 | Heart of the West | Big John Trumbull |
| 1936 | The House of Secrets | Tom Starr |
| 1936 | Missing Girls | Dan Collins |
| 1936 | The President's Mystery | George Sartos |
| 1936 | Woman Trap | Riley Ferguson |
| 1936 | Early to Bed | Rex Daniels |
| 1936 | Florida Special | Jack Macklyn |
| 1935 | Behind the Green Lights | Raymond Cortell |
| 1935 | False Pretenses | Kenneth Alden |
| 1935 | Shadows of the Orient | King Moss |
| 1935 | Great God Gold | John Hart |
| 1935 | The Fire-Trap | Cedric McIntyre |
| 1935 | A Notorious Gentleman | Clayton Bradford |
| 1935 | The Girl Who Came Back | Bill Rhodes |
| 1935 | Streamline Express | Gilbert Landon |
| 1935 | Forced Landing | Tony Bernardi |
| 1935 | Smart Girl | Harry Courtland |
| 1935 | The Little Colonel | Swazey |
| 1934 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Mondego |
| 1934 | This Man Is Mine | Mort Holmes |
| 1934 | Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round | Lee Lother |
| 1934 | Down to Their Last Yacht | Barry Forbes |
| 1934 | The President Vanishes | D.L. Voorman |
| 1933 | Cocktail Hour | Lawton |
| 1933 | Good-bye Love | Chester Hamilton |
| 1933 | From Hell to Heaven | Cliff Billings |
| 1933 | Deluge | Martin Webster |
| 1933 | The Wrecker | Tom Cummings |
| 1931 | Little Caesar | Big Boy |
| 1931 | The Lady Who Dared | Charles Townsend |
| 1931 | It's a Wise Child | Steve |
| 1931 | Woman Hungry | Geoffrey Brand |
| 1930 | An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee | Self |
| 1930 | Kismet | Wazir Mansur |
| 1930 | Mothers Cry | Mr. Gerald Hart |
| 1930 | The Bad Man | Morgan Pell |
| 1930 | Strictly Modern | Heath Desmond |
| 1930 | Sweethearts and Wives | Anthony Peel |
| 1929 | The Love Racket | |
| 1929 | A Most Immoral Lady | Humphrey Sergeant |
| 1914 | Beating Back |