Sidney Blackmer
Acting
Born July 12, 1895 · Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
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.
Films (126)
Do You Take This Stranger?
1971
Revenge Is My Destiny
1971
Rosemary's Baby
1968
A Covenant with Death
1967
Joy in the Morning
1965
How to Murder Your Wife
1965
Stampede at Bitter Creek
1962
What Makes Sammy Run?
1959
Strange Witness
1958
Tammy and the Bachelor
1957
Accused of Murder
1956
The Little Foxes
1956
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1956
High Society
1956
The View from Pompey's Head
1955
The High and the Mighty
1954
Johnny Dark
1954
Washington Story
1952
The San Francisco Story
1952
People Will Talk
1951
Saturday's Hero
1951
Farewell to Yesterday
1950
A Song Is Born
1948
My Girl Tisa
1948
Duel in the Sun
1946
Wilson
1944
The Lady and the Monster
1944
Buffalo Bill
1944
Broadway Rhythm
1944
In Old Oklahoma
1943
I Escaped from the Gestapo
1943
Murder in Times Square
1943
Quiet Please, Murder
1943
Sabotage Squad
1942
March On, America!
1942
Gallant Lady
1942
Obliging Young Lady
1942
Always in My Heart
1942
The Panther's Claw
1942
Nazi Agent
1942
Down Mexico Way
1941
The Officer and the Lady
1941
The Feminine Touch
1941
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
1941
Angels with Broken Wings
1941
Love Crazy
1941
Rookies on Parade
1941
The Great Swindle
1941
Murder Among Friends
1941
Cheers for Miss Bishop
1941
Third Finger, Left Hand
1940
I Want a Divorce
1940
Dance, Girl, Dance
1940
Maryland
1940
Framed
1940
Teddy the Rough Rider
1940
Law of the Pampas
1939
The Monroe Doctrine
1939
Hotel for Women
1939
Land of Liberty
1939
Trapped in the Sky
1939
Unmarried
1939
It's a Wonderful World
1939
Within the Law
1939
Fast and Loose
1939
Convict's Code
1939
Trade Winds
1938
While New York Sleeps
1938
Sharpshooters
1938
Suez
1938
Down on the Farm
1938
Straight, Place and Show
1938
Speed to Burn
1938
In Old Chicago
1938
Thank You, Mr. Moto
1937
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
1937
The Last Gangster
1937
Heidi
1937
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937
The Women Men Marry
1937
This Is My Affair
1937
Michael O'Halloran
1937
John Meade's Woman
1937
A Doctor's Diary
1937
Girl Overboard
1937
The House of Secrets
1936
The President's Mystery
1936
Missing Girls
1936
Early to Bed
1936
Florida Special
1936
Woman Trap
1936
Heart of the West
1936
Forced Landing
1935
The Fire-Trap
1935
False Pretenses
1935
The Girl Who Came Back
1935
Streamline Express
1935
Smart Girl
1935
Shadows of the Orient
1935
Great God Gold
1935
Behind the Green Lights
1935
The Little Colonel
1935
A Notorious Gentleman
1935
The President Vanishes
1934
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
1934
The Count of Monte Cristo
1934
Down to Their Last Yacht
1934
This Man Is Mine
1934
Good-bye Love
1933
Deluge
1933
The Wrecker
1933
Cocktail Hour
1933
From Hell to Heaven
1933
The Lady Who Dared
1931
It's a Wise Child
1931
Woman Hungry
1931
Little Caesar
1931
Mothers Cry
1930
Kismet
1930
The Bad Man
1930
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
1930
Sweethearts and Wives
1930
Strictly Modern
1930
The Love Racket
1929
A Most Immoral Lady
1929
Beating Back
1914