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)
Revenge Is My Destiny
as Gregory Mann
(1971)
Do You Take This Stranger?
as G.R. Jarvis
(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)
Accused of Murder
as Frank Hobart
(1956)
The Little Foxes
as Ben
(1956)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
as Austin Spencer
(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)
The Lady and the Monster
as Eugene Fulton
(1944)
Broadway Rhythm
as Press Agent
(1944)
Wilson
as Josephus Daniels
(1944)
Buffalo Bill
as Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
(1943)
Quiet Please, Murder
as Martin Cleaver
(1943)
In Old Oklahoma
as Teddy Roosevelt
(1943)
Murder in Times Square
as George Nevins
(1943)
I Escaped from the Gestapo
as Bergen
(1942)
March On, America!
as Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1942)
Nazi Agent
as Arnold Milbar
(1942)
The Panther's Claw
as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
(1942)
Always in My Heart
as Philip Ames
(1942)
Gallant Lady
as Steve Carey
(1942)
Obliging Young Lady
as Henry - George's Attorney
(1942)
Sabotage Squad
as Carlyle Harrison
(1941)
The Officer and the Lady
as Blake Standish
(1941)
Love Crazy
as Lawyer George Renny
(1941)
Angels with Broken Wings
as Guy Barton
(1941)
Rookies on Parade
as Augustus Moody
(1941)
Cheers for Miss Bishop
as John Stevens
(1941)
Murder Among Friends
as Mr. Wheeler
(1941)
Down Mexico Way
as Ellery Gibson
(1941)
The Feminine Touch
as Freddie Bond
(1941)
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
as Anthony Rhodes
(1941)
The Great Swindle
as Dave Lennox
(1940)
Framed
as Tony Bowman
(1940)
Third Finger, Left Hand
as Hughie Wheeler
(1940)
I Want a Divorce
as Erskine Brandon
(1940)
Maryland
as Spencer Danfield
(1940)
Dance, Girl, Dance
as Puss in Boots
(1940)
Teddy the Rough Rider
as Theodore Roosevelt
(1939)
Fast and Loose
as "Lucky" Nolan
(1939)
Hotel for Women
as McNeil
(1939)
Law of the Pampas
as Ralph Merritt
(1939)
It's a Wonderful World
as Al Mallon
(1939)
The Monroe Doctrine
as Theodore Roosevelt
(1939)
Convict's Code
as Gregory Warren
(1939)
Land of Liberty
as Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
(1939)
Trapped in the Sky
as Mann
(1939)
Unmarried
as Cash Enright
(1939)
Within the Law
as George Demarest
(1938)
Speed to Burn
as Hastings
(1938)
In Old Chicago
as General Phil Sheridan
(1938)
Sharpshooters
as Baron Orloff
(1938)
While New York Sleeps
as Ralph Simmons
(1938)
Suez
as Marquis Du Brey
(1938)
Straight, Place and Show
as 'Lucky' Braddock
(1938)
Trade Winds
as Thomas Bruhme II
(1938)
Down on the Farm
as Political Boss
(1937)
The Women Men Marry
as Walter Wiley
(1937)
Heidi
as Sesemann
(1937)
John Meade's Woman
as Rodney
(1937)
Thank You, Mr. Moto
as Herr Eric Koeger
(1937)
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
as Victor Karnoff
(1937)
A Doctor's Diary
as Dr. Anson Ludlow
(1937)
The Last Gangster
as San Francisco Editor
(1937)
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
as Dr. Gordon Therberg
(1937)
This Is My Affair
as President Theodore Roosevelt
(1937)
Michael O'Halloran
as Jim Mintum
(1937)
Girl Overboard
as Alex LeMaire
(1936)
Early to Bed
as Rex Daniels
(1936)
Florida Special
as Jack Macklyn
(1936)
The House of Secrets
as Tom Starr
(1936)
Missing Girls
as Dan Collins
(1936)
Woman Trap
as Riley Ferguson
(1936)
Heart of the West
as Big John Trumbull
(1936)
The President's Mystery
as George Sartos
(1935)
Shadows of the Orient
as King Moss
(1935)
Streamline Express
as Gilbert Landon
(1935)
A Notorious Gentleman
as Clayton Bradford
(1935)
Forced Landing
as Tony Bernardi
(1935)
Behind the Green Lights
as Raymond Cortell
(1935)
Smart Girl
as Harry Courtland
(1935)
Great God Gold
as John Hart
(1935)
The Girl Who Came Back
as Bill Rhodes
(1935)
The Little Colonel
as Swazey
(1935)
False Pretenses
as Kenneth Alden
(1935)
The Fire-Trap
as Cedric McIntyre
(1934)
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
as Lee Lother
(1934)
The President Vanishes
as D.L. Voorman
(1934)
This Man Is Mine
as Mort Holmes
(1934)
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Mondego
(1934)
Down to Their Last Yacht
as Barry Forbes
(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)
Woman Hungry
as Geoffrey Brand
(1931)
It's a Wise Child
as Steve
(1931)
The Lady Who Dared
as Charles Townsend
(1930)
(1930)
The Bad Man
as Morgan Pell
(1930)
Mothers Cry
as Mr. Gerald Hart
(1930)
Sweethearts and Wives
as Anthony Peel
(1930)
Kismet
as Wazir Mansur
(1930)
Strictly Modern
as Heath Desmond
(1929)
A Most Immoral Lady
as Humphrey Sergeant
(1929)
(1914)