Sidney Blackmer
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1895-07-12
Day of Death
1973-10-06 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
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
Acting
(1971)
Do You Take This Stranger?
as G.R. Jarvis
(1971)
Revenge Is My Destiny
as Gregory Mann
(1968)
Rosemary's Baby
as Roman Castevet
(1967)
A Covenant with Death
as Col. Oates
(1965)
How to Murder Your Wife
as Judge Blackstone
(1965)
Joy in the Morning
as Dean James Darwent
(1959)
What Makes Sammy Run?
as H.L. Harrington
(1958)
Strange Witness
as Christopher
(1957)
Tammy and the Bachelor
as Professor Brent
(1956)
High Society
as Seth Lord
(1956)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
as Austin Spencer
(1956)
Accused of Murder
as Frank Hobart
(1956)
The Little Foxes
as Ben
(1955)
The View from Pompey's Head
as Garvin Wales
(1954)
The High and the Mighty
as Humphrey Agnew
(1954)
Johnny Dark
as James Fielding
(1952)
The San Francisco Story
as Andrew Cain
(1952)
Washington Story
as Philip Emery
(1951)
People Will Talk
as Arthur Higgins
(1951)
Saturday's Hero
as T.C. McCabe
(1948)
A Song Is Born
as Adams
(1948)
My Girl Tisa
as Theodore Roosevelt
(1946)
Duel in the Sun
as The Lover
(1944)
Buffalo Bill
as Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
(1944)
Wilson
as Josephus Daniels
(1944)
The Lady and the Monster
as Eugene Fulton
(1944)
Broadway Rhythm
as Press Agent
(1943)
In Old Oklahoma
as Teddy Roosevelt
(1943)
Quiet Please, Murder
as Martin Cleaver
(1943)
Murder in Times Square
as George Nevins
(1943)
I Escaped from the Gestapo
as Bergen
(1942)
Sabotage Squad
as Carlyle Harrison
(1942)
Nazi Agent
as Arnold Milbar
(1942)
The Panther's Claw
as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
(1942)
Obliging Young Lady
as Henry - George's Attorney
(1942)
Gallant Lady
as Steve Carey
(1942)
March On, America!
as Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1942)
Always in My Heart
as Philip Ames
(1941)
Love Crazy
as Lawyer George Renny
(1941)
Cheers for Miss Bishop
as John Stevens
(1941)
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
as Anthony Rhodes
(1941)
The Feminine Touch
as Freddie Bond
(1941)
Down Mexico Way
as Ellery Gibson
(1941)
The Officer and the Lady
as Blake Standish
(1941)
The Great Swindle
as Dave Lennox
(1941)
Angels with Broken Wings
as Guy Barton
(1941)
Murder Among Friends
as Mr. Wheeler
(1941)
Rookies on Parade
as Augustus Moody
(1940)
Dance, Girl, Dance
as Puss in Boots
(1940)
Maryland
as Spencer Danfield
(1940)
Third Finger, Left Hand
as Hughie Wheeler
(1940)
Framed
as Tony Bowman
(1940)
I Want a Divorce
as Erskine Brandon
(1940)
Teddy the Rough Rider
as Theodore Roosevelt
(1939)
It's a Wonderful World
as Al Mallon
(1939)
Unmarried
as Cash Enright
(1939)
Fast and Loose
as "Lucky" Nolan
(1939)
Convict's Code
as Gregory Warren
(1939)
The Monroe Doctrine
as Theodore Roosevelt
(1939)
Hotel for Women
as McNeil
(1939)
Within the Law
as George Demarest
(1939)
Land of Liberty
as Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
(1939)
Law of the Pampas
as Ralph Merritt
(1939)
Trapped in the Sky
as Mann
(1938)
Suez
as Marquis Du Brey
(1938)
In Old Chicago
as General Phil Sheridan
(1938)
Down on the Farm
as Political Boss
(1938)
Straight, Place and Show
as 'Lucky' Braddock
(1938)
Trade Winds
as Thomas Bruhme II
(1938)
Speed to Burn
as Hastings
(1938)
Sharpshooters
as Baron Orloff
(1938)
While New York Sleeps
as Ralph Simmons
(1937)
Heidi
as Sesemann
(1937)
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
as Victor Karnoff
(1937)
The Last Gangster
as San Francisco Editor
(1937)
This Is My Affair
as President Theodore Roosevelt
(1937)
Thank You, Mr. Moto
as Herr Eric Koeger
(1937)
Girl Overboard
as Alex LeMaire
(1937)
The Women Men Marry
as Walter Wiley
(1937)
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
as Dr. Gordon Therberg
(1937)
John Meade's Woman
as Rodney
(1937)
Michael O'Halloran
as Jim Mintum
(1937)
A Doctor's Diary
as Dr. Anson Ludlow
(1936)
Missing Girls
as Dan Collins
(1936)
Florida Special
as Jack Macklyn
(1936)
Early to Bed
as Rex Daniels
(1936)
Woman Trap
as Riley Ferguson
(1936)
The President's Mystery
as George Sartos
(1936)
The House of Secrets
as Tom Starr
(1936)
Heart of the West
as Big John Trumbull
(1935)
The Little Colonel
as Swazey
(1935)
Streamline Express
as Gilbert Landon
(1935)
The Girl Who Came Back
as Bill Rhodes
(1935)
False Pretenses
as Kenneth Alden
(1935)
Shadows of the Orient
as King Moss
(1935)
Smart Girl
as Harry Courtland
(1935)
Behind the Green Lights
as Raymond Cortell
(1935)
Great God Gold
as John Hart
(1935)
Forced Landing
as Tony Bernardi
(1935)
The Fire-Trap
as Cedric McIntyre
(1935)
(1934)
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Mondego
(1934)
Down to Their Last Yacht
as Barry Forbes
(1934)
This Man Is Mine
as Mort Holmes
(1934)
The President Vanishes
as D.L. Voorman
(1934)
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
as Lee Lother
(1933)
Deluge
as Martin Webster
(1933)
Cocktail Hour
as Lawton
(1933)
The Wrecker
as Tom Cummings
(1933)
From Hell to Heaven
as Cliff Billings
(1933)
Good-bye Love
as Chester Hamilton
(1931)
Little Caesar
as Big Boy
(1931)
The Lady Who Dared
as Charles Townsend
(1931)
Woman Hungry
as Geoffrey Brand
(1931)
It's a Wise Child
as Steve
(1930)
Kismet
as Wazir Mansur
(1930)
The Bad Man
as Morgan Pell
(1930)
Strictly Modern
as Heath Desmond
(1930)
(1930)
Mothers Cry
as Mr. Gerald Hart
(1930)
Sweethearts and Wives
as Anthony Peel
(1929)
A Most Immoral Lady
as Humphrey Sergeant
(1929)
(1914)