Sidney Blackmer
Acting • Born 1895-07-12 – Died 1973-10-06
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sidney Blackmer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
165 credits
Rosemary's Baby
Movie • 1968
Roman Castevet
My Girl Tisa
Movie • 1948
Theodore Roosevelt
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Movie • 1956
Austin Spencer
Love Crazy
Movie • 1941
Lawyer George Renny
High Society
Movie • 1956
Seth Lord
People Will Talk
Movie • 1951
Arthur Higgins
Duel in the Sun
Movie • 1946
The Lover
How to Murder Your Wife
Movie • 1965
Judge Blackstone
The Great Swindle
Movie • 1941
Dave Lennox
Trapped in the Sky
Movie • 1939
Mann
Little Caesar
Movie • 1931
Big Boy
Within the Law
Movie • 1939
George Demarest
The Last Gangster
Movie • 1937
San Francisco Editor
Quiet Please, Murder
Movie • 1943
Martin Cleaver
The Officer and the Lady
Movie • 1941
Blake Standish
Accused of Murder
Movie • 1956
Frank Hobart
The Count of Monte Cristo
Movie • 1934
Mondego
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
Movie • 1937
Victor Karnoff
It's a Wonderful World
Movie • 1939
Al Mallon
Nazi Agent
Movie • 1942
Arnold Milbar
The High and the Mighty
Movie • 1954
Humphrey Agnew
Third Finger, Left Hand
Movie • 1940
Hughie Wheeler
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
Movie • 1941
Anthony Rhodes
Heart of the West
Movie • 1936
Big John Trumbull
Broadway Rhythm
Movie • 1944
Press Agent
The Panther's Claw
Movie • 1942
Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
Cocktail Hour
Movie • 1933
Lawton
Wilson
Movie • 1944
Josephus Daniels
Thank You, Mr. Moto
Movie • 1937
Herr Eric Koeger
The Feminine Touch
Movie • 1941
Freddie Bond
In Old Chicago
Movie • 1938
General Phil Sheridan
The House of Secrets
Movie • 1936
Tom Starr
Always in My Heart
Movie • 1942
Philip Ames
Behind the Green Lights
Movie • 1935
Raymond Cortell
Missing Girls
Movie • 1936
Dan Collins
The President's Mystery
Movie • 1936
George Sartos
While New York Sleeps
Movie • 1938
Ralph Simmons
Murder Among Friends
Movie • 1941
Mr. Wheeler
Framed
Movie • 1940
Tony Bowman
Convict's Code
Movie • 1939
Gregory Warren
Murder in Times Square
Movie • 1943
George Nevins
Johnny Dark
Movie • 1954
James Fielding
The Monroe Doctrine
Movie • 1939
Theodore Roosevelt
Joy in the Morning
Movie • 1965
Dean James Darwent
Down Mexico Way
Movie • 1941
Ellery Gibson
The Lady and the Monster
Movie • 1944
Eugene Fulton
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Movie • 1930
Self
Good-bye Love
Movie • 1933
Chester Hamilton
False Pretenses
Movie • 1935
Kenneth Alden
From Hell to Heaven
Movie • 1933
Cliff Billings
Shadows of the Orient
Movie • 1935
King Moss
Trade Winds
Movie • 1938
Thomas Bruhme II
The Women Men Marry
Movie • 1937
Walter Wiley
Saturday's Hero
Movie • 1951
T.C. McCabe
Washington Story
Movie • 1952
Philip Emery
The San Francisco Story
Movie • 1952
Andrew Cain
Hotel for Women
Movie • 1939
McNeil
The Lady Who Dared
Movie • 1931
Charles Townsend
This Man Is Mine
Movie • 1934
Mort Holmes
Great God Gold
Movie • 1935
John Hart
The Fire-Trap
Movie • 1935
Cedric McIntyre
Maryland
Movie • 1940
Spencer Danfield
I Want a Divorce
Movie • 1940
Erskine Brandon
A Covenant with Death
Movie • 1967
Col. Oates
John Meade's Woman
Movie • 1937
Rodney
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Movie • 1934
Lee Lother
Down to Their Last Yacht
Movie • 1934
Barry Forbes
The View from Pompey's Head
Movie • 1955
Garvin Wales
Kismet
Movie • 1930
Wazir Mansur
Suez
Movie • 1938
Marquis Du Brey
A Notorious Gentleman
Movie • 1935
Clayton Bradford
Sharpshooters
Movie • 1938
Baron Orloff
Angels with Broken Wings
Movie • 1941
Guy Barton
Heidi
Movie • 1937
Sesemann
Deluge
Movie • 1933
Martin Webster
Land of Liberty
Movie • 1939
Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
Buffalo Bill
Movie • 1944
Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Movie • 1937
Dr. Gordon Therberg
The Girl Who Came Back
Movie • 1935
Bill Rhodes
The Love Racket
Movie • 1929
Revenge Is My Destiny
Movie • 1971
Gregory Mann
The President Vanishes
Movie • 1934
D.L. Voorman
The Wrecker
Movie • 1933
Tom Cummings
Streamline Express
Movie • 1935
Gilbert Landon
Fast and Loose
Movie • 1939
"Lucky" Nolan
Mothers Cry
Movie • 1930
Mr. Gerald Hart
Teddy the Rough Rider
Movie • 1940
Theodore Roosevelt
Do You Take This Stranger?
Movie • 1971
G.R. Jarvis
Unmarried
Movie • 1939
Cash Enright
Woman Trap
Movie • 1936
Riley Ferguson
Tammy and the Bachelor
Movie • 1957
Professor Brent
Forced Landing
Movie • 1935
Tony Bernardi
Smart Girl
Movie • 1935
Harry Courtland
It's a Wise Child
Movie • 1931
Steve
The Bad Man
Movie • 1930
Morgan Pell
Straight, Place and Show
Movie • 1938
'Lucky' Braddock
Speed to Burn
Movie • 1938
Hastings
Rookies on Parade
Movie • 1941
Augustus Moody
I Escaped from the Gestapo
Movie • 1943
Bergen
Sabotage Squad
Movie • 1942
Carlyle Harrison
Law of the Pampas
Movie • 1939
Ralph Merritt
This Is My Affair
Movie • 1937
President Theodore Roosevelt
In Old Oklahoma
Movie • 1943
Teddy Roosevelt
Strictly Modern
Movie • 1930
Heath Desmond
A Doctor's Diary
Movie • 1937
Dr. Anson Ludlow
Dance, Girl, Dance
Movie • 1940
Puss in Boots
Cheers for Miss Bishop
Movie • 1941
John Stevens
Sweethearts and Wives
Movie • 1930
Anthony Peel
The Little Colonel
Movie • 1935
Swazey
Early to Bed
Movie • 1936
Rex Daniels
Florida Special
Movie • 1936
Jack Macklyn
The Little Foxes
Movie • 1956
Ben
Obliging Young Lady
Movie • 1942
Henry - George's Attorney
What Makes Sammy Run?
Movie • 1959
H.L. Harrington
A Song Is Born
Movie • 1948
Adams
Girl Overboard
Movie • 1937
Alex LeMaire
Gallant Lady
Movie • 1942
Steve Carey
Woman Hungry
Movie • 1931
Geoffrey Brand
Down on the Farm
Movie • 1938
Political Boss
March On, America!
Movie • 1942
Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Most Immoral Lady
Movie • 1929
Humphrey Sergeant
Michael O'Halloran
Movie • 1937
Jim Mintum
Strange Witness
Movie • 1958
Christopher
Beating Back
Movie • 1914
Farewell to Yesterday
Movie • 1950
Self - Narrator(voice)
Stampede at Bitter Creek
Movie • 1962
Sam Underwood
Cain's Hundred
TV • 1961
Joseph Callan
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1966
Professor Antrum
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Frank Partridge
Target: The Corruptors!
TV • 1961
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Jasper Ledbedder
Thriller
TV • 1960
Edward Stapleton
Climax!
TV • 1954
Prrof. Watson
Profiles in Courage
TV • 1964
Oscar W. Underwood
Matinee Theater
TV • 1955
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV • 1956
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
Marvin Platt
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Judge Cooper
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Ben Casey
TV • 1961
The Texan
TV • 1958
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Christopher
Suspense
TV • 1949
Dr. Steven Archer
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Judge Hanavan
Tales of Tomorrow
TV • 1951
Lights Out
TV • 1949
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Dr. Carleton Lantzinge
The Outer Limits
TV • 1963
William Lyons Selby
The Star and the Story
TV • 1955
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Dr. Andrew Bennett
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Vardis Ward
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Julian Prescott
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Roman Stepanak
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Clarence Dunhill
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Otis Jones
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Ben
Climax!
TV • 1954
Frank Bellason
Suspense
TV • 1949
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Judge Hanavan
Armstrong Circle Theatre
TV • 1950
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV • 1958
Woodson