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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Acting (121 movies)
Rosemary's Baby
1968
My Girl Tisa
1948
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1956
Love Crazy
1941
High Society
1956
People Will Talk
1951
Duel in the Sun
1946
How to Murder Your Wife
1965
The Great Swindle
1941
Trapped in the Sky
1939
Little Caesar
1931
Within the Law
1939
The Last Gangster
1937
Quiet Please, Murder
1943
The Officer and the Lady
1941
Accused of Murder
1956
The Count of Monte Cristo
1934
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
1937
It's a Wonderful World
1939
Nazi Agent
1942
The High and the Mighty
1954
Third Finger, Left Hand
1940
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
1941
Heart of the West
1936
Broadway Rhythm
1944
The Panther's Claw
1942
Cocktail Hour
1933
Wilson
1944
Thank You, Mr. Moto
1937
The Feminine Touch
1941
In Old Chicago
1938
The House of Secrets
1936
Always in My Heart
1942
Behind the Green Lights
1935
Missing Girls
1936
The President's Mystery
1936
While New York Sleeps
1938
Convict's Code
1939
Murder Among Friends
1941
Framed
1940
Murder in Times Square
1943
Johnny Dark
1954
The Monroe Doctrine
1939
Joy in the Morning
1965
Down Mexico Way
1941
The Lady and the Monster
1944
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
1930
Good-bye Love
1933
False Pretenses
1935
Shadows of the Orient
1935
From Hell to Heaven
1933
Trade Winds
1938
The Women Men Marry
1937
Washington Story
1952
Saturday's Hero
1951
The San Francisco Story
1952
Hotel for Women
1939
The Lady Who Dared
1931
This Man Is Mine
1934
Great God Gold
1935
Maryland
1940
I Want a Divorce
1940
A Covenant with Death
1967
John Meade's Woman
1937
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
1934
Down to Their Last Yacht
1934
The View from Pompey's Head
1955
Kismet
1930
Suez
1938
A Notorious Gentleman
1935
Sharpshooters
1938
Angels with Broken Wings
1941
Heidi
1937
Deluge
1933
Land of Liberty
1939
Buffalo Bill
1944
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937
The Girl Who Came Back
1935
The Love Racket
1929
The President Vanishes
1934
The Wrecker
1933
Streamline Express
1935
Fast and Loose
1939
Mothers Cry
1930
Teddy the Rough Rider
1940
Do You Take This Stranger?
1971
Unmarried
1939
Woman Trap
1936
Tammy and the Bachelor
1957
Forced Landing
1935
It's a Wise Child
1931
Smart Girl
1935
The Bad Man
1930
Straight, Place and Show
1938
Speed to Burn
1938
Rookies on Parade
1941
I Escaped from the Gestapo
1943
Sabotage Squad
1942
Law of the Pampas
1939
This Is My Affair
1937
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