Sidney Blackmer
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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Films (126)
Do You Take This Stranger?
1971 · G.R. Jarvis
Revenge Is My Destiny
1971 · Gregory Mann
Rosemary's Baby
1968 · Roman Castevet
A Covenant with Death
1967 · Col. Oates
Joy in the Morning
1965 · Dean James Darwent
How to Murder Your Wife
1965 · Judge Blackstone
Stampede at Bitter Creek
1962 · Sam Underwood
What Makes Sammy Run?
1959 · H.L. Harrington
Strange Witness
1958 · Christopher
Tammy and the Bachelor
1957 · Professor Brent
Accused of Murder
1956 · Frank Hobart
The Little Foxes
1956 · Ben
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1956 · Austin Spencer
High Society
1956 · Seth Lord
The View from Pompey's Head
1955 · Garvin Wales
The High and the Mighty
1954 · Humphrey Agnew
Johnny Dark
1954 · James Fielding
Washington Story
1952 · Philip Emery
The San Francisco Story
1952 · Andrew Cain
People Will Talk
1951 · Arthur Higgins
Saturday's Hero
1951 · T.C. McCabe
Farewell to Yesterday
1950 · Self - Narrator(voice)
A Song Is Born
1948 · Adams
My Girl Tisa
1948 · Theodore Roosevelt
Duel in the Sun
1946 · The Lover
Wilson
1944 · Josephus Daniels
The Lady and the Monster
1944 · Eugene Fulton
Buffalo Bill
1944 · Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
Broadway Rhythm
1944 · Press Agent
In Old Oklahoma
1943 · Teddy Roosevelt
I Escaped from the Gestapo
1943 · Bergen
Murder in Times Square
1943 · George Nevins
Quiet Please, Murder
1943 · Martin Cleaver
Sabotage Squad
1942 · Carlyle Harrison
March On, America!
1942 · Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gallant Lady
1942 · Steve Carey
Obliging Young Lady
1942 · Henry - George's Attorney
Always in My Heart
1942 · Philip Ames
The Panther's Claw
1942 · Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
Nazi Agent
1942 · Arnold Milbar
Down Mexico Way
1941 · Ellery Gibson
The Officer and the Lady
1941 · Blake Standish
The Feminine Touch
1941 · Freddie Bond
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
1941 · Anthony Rhodes
Angels with Broken Wings
1941 · Guy Barton
Love Crazy
1941 · Lawyer George Renny
Rookies on Parade
1941 · Augustus Moody
The Great Swindle
1941 · Dave Lennox
Murder Among Friends
1941 · Mr. Wheeler
Cheers for Miss Bishop
1941 · John Stevens
Third Finger, Left Hand
1940 · Hughie Wheeler
I Want a Divorce
1940 · Erskine Brandon
Dance, Girl, Dance
1940 · Puss in Boots
Maryland
1940 · Spencer Danfield
Framed
1940 · Tony Bowman
Teddy the Rough Rider
1940 · Theodore Roosevelt
Law of the Pampas
1939 · Ralph Merritt
The Monroe Doctrine
1939 · Theodore Roosevelt
Hotel for Women
1939 · McNeil
Land of Liberty
1939 · Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
Trapped in the Sky
1939 · Mann
Unmarried
1939 · Cash Enright
It's a Wonderful World
1939 · Al Mallon
Within the Law
1939 · George Demarest
Fast and Loose
1939 · "Lucky" Nolan
Convict's Code
1939 · Gregory Warren
Trade Winds
1938 · Thomas Bruhme II
While New York Sleeps
1938 · Ralph Simmons
Sharpshooters
1938 · Baron Orloff
Suez
1938 · Marquis Du Brey
Down on the Farm
1938 · Political Boss
Straight, Place and Show
1938 · 'Lucky' Braddock
Speed to Burn
1938 · Hastings
In Old Chicago
1938 · General Phil Sheridan
Thank You, Mr. Moto
1937 · Herr Eric Koeger
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
1937 · Victor Karnoff
The Last Gangster
1937 · San Francisco Editor
Heidi
1937 · Sesemann
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937 · Dr. Gordon Therberg
The Women Men Marry
1937 · Walter Wiley
This Is My Affair
1937 · President Theodore Roosevelt
Michael O'Halloran
1937 · Jim Mintum
John Meade's Woman
1937 · Rodney Bentley
A Doctor's Diary
1937 · Dr. Anson Ludlow
Girl Overboard
1937 · Alex LeMaire
The House of Secrets
1936 · Tom Starr
The President's Mystery
1936 · George Sartos
Missing Girls
1936 · Dan Collins
Early to Bed
1936 · Rex Daniels
Florida Special
1936 · Jack Macklyn
Woman Trap
1936 · Riley Ferguson
Heart of the West
1936 · Big John Trumbull
Forced Landing
1935 · Tony Bernardi
The Fire-Trap
1935 · Cedric McIntyre
False Pretenses
1935 · Kenneth Alden
The Girl Who Came Back
1935 · Bill Rhodes
Streamline Express
1935 · Gilbert Landon
Smart Girl
1935 · Harry Courtland
Shadows of the Orient
1935 · King Moss
Great God Gold
1935 · John Hart
Behind the Green Lights
1935 · Raymond Cortell
The Little Colonel
1935 · Swazey
A Notorious Gentleman
1935 · Clayton Bradford
The President Vanishes
1934 · D.L. Voorman
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
1934 · Lee Lother
The Count of Monte Cristo
1934 · Mondego
Down to Their Last Yacht
1934 · Barry Forbes
This Man Is Mine
1934 · Mort Holmes
Good-bye Love
1933 · Chester Hamilton
Deluge
1933 · Martin Webster
The Wrecker
1933 · Tom Cummings
Cocktail Hour
1933 · Lawton
From Hell to Heaven
1933 · Cliff Billings
The Lady Who Dared
1931 · Charles Townsend
It's a Wise Child
1931 · Steve
Woman Hungry
1931 · Geoffrey Brand
Little Caesar
1931 · Big Boy
Mothers Cry
1930 · Mr. Gerald Hart
Kismet
1930 · Wazir Mansur
The Bad Man
1930 · Morgan Pell
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
1930 · Self
Sweethearts and Wives
1930 · Anthony Peel
Strictly Modern
1930 · Heath Desmond
The Love Racket
1929
A Most Immoral Lady
1929 · Humphrey Sergeant
Beating Back
1914
Séries (30)
The Name of the Game
1968 · Roman Stepanak, Clarence Dunhill
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966 · Professor Antrum
Profiles in Courage
1964 · Oscar W. Underwood
Daniel Boone
1964 · Jasper Ledbedder
The Outer Limits
1963 · William Lyons Selby
Ben Casey
1961
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
Dr. Kildare
1961 · Dr. Carleton Lantzinge, Dr. Andrew Bennett
Cain's Hundred
1961 · Joseph Callan
Thriller
1960 · Edward Stapleton
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958 · Woodson
The Rifleman
1958 · Judge Hanavan
The Texan
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958 · Judge Cooper
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Judge Hanavan
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
Matinee Theater
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Frank Partridge, Otis Jones
The Star and the Story
1955
Climax!
1954 · Prrof. Watson, Frank Bellason
General Electric Theater
1953 · Christopher
The Ford Television Theatre
1952 · Wade Anthony
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Ben
Tales of Tomorrow
1951
Armstrong Circle Theatre
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950 · Vardis Ward, Julian Prescott
Lights Out
1949
Suspense
1949 · Dr. Steven Archer
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · Marvin Platt
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self