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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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1895-07-12
Place of birth
Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
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Cast
Rosemary's Baby
1968
7.83
My Girl Tisa
1948
0.00
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1956
6.91
Love Crazy
1941
7.10
High Society
1956
6.90
People Will Talk
1951
7.10
Duel in the Sun
1946
6.34
How to Murder Your Wife
1965
6.33
The Great Swindle
1941
0.00
Trapped in the Sky
1939
0.00
Little Caesar
1931
6.87
Within the Law
1939
6.00
The Last Gangster
1937
6.30
Quiet Please, Murder
1943
6.80
The Officer and the Lady
1941
6.00
Accused of Murder
1956
4.50
The Count of Monte Cristo
1934
6.75
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
1937
6.50
It's a Wonderful World
1939
6.40
Nazi Agent
1942
6.60
The High and the Mighty
1954
5.90
Third Finger, Left Hand
1940
6.80
Heart of the West
1936
4.50
Broadway Rhythm
1944
5.50
The Panther's Claw
1942
6.00
Cocktail Hour
1933
5.30
Wilson
1944
5.50
Thank You, Mr. Moto
1937
6.10
The Feminine Touch
1941
5.10
In Old Chicago
1938
6.48
The House of Secrets
1936
5.18
Always in My Heart
1942
6.00
Behind the Green Lights
1935
6.00
Missing Girls
1936
5.00
The President's Mystery
1936
5.30
While New York Sleeps
1938
0.00
Murder Among Friends
1941
0.00
Framed
1940
5.80
Convict's Code
1939
4.67
Murder in Times Square
1943
4.60
Johnny Dark
1954
5.00
The Monroe Doctrine
1939
6.67
Joy in the Morning
1965
3.50
Down Mexico Way
1941
0.00
The Lady and the Monster
1944
5.80
Good-bye Love
1933
5.50
False Pretenses
1935
5.00
From Hell to Heaven
1933
7.20
Shadows of the Orient
1935
5.00
Trade Winds
1938
6.30
The Women Men Marry
1937
5.50
Saturday's Hero
1951
5.70
Washington Story
1952
6.00
The San Francisco Story
1952
4.80
Hotel for Women
1939
6.00
The Lady Who Dared
1931
5.00
This Man Is Mine
1934
5.50
Great God Gold
1935
5.00
The Fire-Trap
1935
5.00
Maryland
1940
6.20
I Want a Divorce
1940
0.00
A Covenant with Death
1967
5.00
John Meade's Woman
1937
0.00
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
1934
4.40
Down to Their Last Yacht
1934
6.00
The View from Pompey's Head
1955
3.50
Kismet
1930
3.50
Suez
1938
5.20
A Notorious Gentleman
1935
6.00
Sharpshooters
1938
0.00
Angels with Broken Wings
1941
3.70
Heidi
1937
6.85
Deluge
1933
5.60
Land of Liberty
1939
0.00
Buffalo Bill
1944
5.80
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937
6.00
The Girl Who Came Back
1935
5.70
The Love Racket
1929
0.00
Revenge Is My Destiny
1971
3.50
The President Vanishes
1934
5.75
The Wrecker
1933
1.00
Streamline Express
1935
4.70
Fast and Loose
1939
5.60
Mothers Cry
1930
0.00
Teddy the Rough Rider
1940
6.78
Do You Take This Stranger?
1971
5.00
Unmarried
1939
3.00
Woman Trap
1936
0.00
Tammy and the Bachelor
1957
7.00
Forced Landing
1935
0.00
Smart Girl
1935
0.00
It's a Wise Child
1931
0.00
The Bad Man
1930
0.00
Straight, Place and Show
1938
6.00
Speed to Burn
1938
6.00
Rookies on Parade
1941
0.00
I Escaped from the Gestapo
1943
5.50
Sabotage Squad
1942
6.00
Law of the Pampas
1939
5.00
This Is My Affair
1937
7.30
In Old Oklahoma
1943
6.20
Strictly Modern
1930
0.00
A Doctor's Diary
1937
10.00
Dance, Girl, Dance
1940
6.40
Cheers for Miss Bishop
1941
5.63
Sweethearts and Wives
1930
0.00
The Little Colonel
1935
6.33
Early to Bed
1936
7.00
Florida Special
1936
6.00
The Little Foxes
1956
0.00
Obliging Young Lady
1942
5.00
What Makes Sammy Run?
1959
7.00
A Song Is Born
1948
6.50
Girl Overboard
1937
0.00
Gallant Lady
1942
5.00
Woman Hungry
1931
0.00
Down on the Farm
1938
0.00
March On, America!
1942
4.70
A Most Immoral Lady
1929
1.00
Michael O'Halloran
1937
0.00
Strange Witness
1958
0.00
Beating Back
1914
0.00