
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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