Sidney Blackmer

Sidney Blackmer

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Salisbury, North Carolina, USA, 1895-07-12

Died: 1973-10-06

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1914	Beating Back		0
2	1929	A Most Immoral Lady	Humphrey Sergeant	10
3	1929	The Love Racket		0
4	1930	Strictly Modern	Heath Desmond	0
5	1930	Sweethearts and Wives	Anthony Peel	0
6	1930	An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee	Self	34
7	1930	The Bad Man	Morgan Pell	0
8	1930	Kismet	Wazir Mansur	35
9	1930	Mothers Cry	Mr. Gerald Hart	0
10	1931	Little Caesar	Big Boy	69
11	1931	Woman Hungry	Geoffrey Brand	0
12	1931	It's a Wise Child	Steve	0
13	1931	The Lady Who Dared	Charles Townsend	50
14	1933	From Hell to Heaven	Cliff Billings	72
15	1933	Cocktail Hour	Lawton	53
16	1933	The Wrecker	Tom Cummings	10
17	1933	Deluge	Martin Webster	56
18	1933	Good-bye Love	Chester Hamilton	55
19	1934	This Man Is Mine	Mort Holmes	55
20	1934	Down to Their Last Yacht	Barry Forbes	60
21	1934	The Count of Monte Cristo	Mondego	68
22	1934	Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round	Lee Lother	44
23	1934	The President Vanishes	D.L. Voorman	58
24	1935	A Notorious Gentleman		60
25	1935	The Little Colonel	Swazey	63
26	1935	Behind the Green Lights	Raymond Cortell	60
27	1935	Great God Gold	John Hart	50
28	1935	Shadows of the Orient	King Moss	50
29	1935	Smart Girl	Harry Courtland	0
30	1935	Streamline Express	Gilbert Landon	47
31	1935	The Girl Who Came Back	Bill Rhodes	57
32	1935	False Pretenses	Kenneth Alden	50
33	1935	The Fire-Trap	Cedric McIntyre	50
34	1935	Forced Landing	Tony Bernardi	0
35	1936	Heart of the West	Big John Trumbull	45
36	1936	Woman Trap	Riley Ferguson	0
37	1936	Florida Special	Jack Macklyn	60
38	1936	Early to Bed	Rex Daniels	70
39	1936	Missing Girls	Dan Collins	50
40	1936	The President's Mystery	George Sartos	53
41	1936	The House of Secrets	Tom Starr	52
42	1937	Girl Overboard	Alex LeMaire	0
43	1937	A Doctor's Diary	Dr. Anson Ludlow	100
44	1937	John Meade's Woman	Rodney	0
45	1937	Michael O'Halloran	Jim Mintum	0
46	1937	This Is My Affair	President Theodore Roosevelt	73
47	1937	The Women Men Marry	Walter Wiley	55
48	1937	Wife, Doctor and Nurse	Dr. Gordon Therberg	60
49	1937	Heidi	Sesemann	69
50	1937	The Last Gangster	San Francisco Editor	63
51	1937	Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo	Victor Karnoff	65
52	1937	Thank You, Mr. Moto	Herr Eric Koeger	61
53	1938	In Old Chicago	General Phil Sheridan	65
54	1938	Speed to Burn	Hastings	60
55	1938	Straight, Place and Show	'Lucky' Braddock	60
56	1938	Down on the Farm	Political Boss	0
57	1938	Suez	Marquis Du Brey	52
58	1938	Sharpshooters	Baron Orloff	0
59	1938	While New York Sleeps	Ralph Simmons	0
60	1938	Trade Winds	Thomas Bruhme II	63
61	1939	Convict's Code	Gregory Warren	47
62	1939	Fast and Loose	"Lucky" Nolan	56
63	1939	Within the Law	George Demarest	60
64	1939	It's a Wonderful World	Al Mallon	64
65	1939	Unmarried	Cash Enright	30
66	1939	Trapped in the Sky	Mann	0
67	1939	Land of Liberty	Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')	0
68	1939	Hotel for Women	McNeil	60
69	1939	The Monroe Doctrine	Theodore Roosevelt	67
70	1939	Law of the Pampas	Ralph Merritt	50
71	1940	Teddy the Rough Rider	Theodore Roosevelt	68
72	1940	Framed	Tony Bowman	58
73	1940	Maryland	Spencer Danfield	62
74	1940	Dance, Girl, Dance	Puss in Boots	64
75	1940	I Want a Divorce	Erskine Brandon	0
76	1940	Third Finger, Left Hand	Hughie Wheeler	68
77	1941	Cheers for Miss Bishop	John Stevens	56
78	1941	Murder Among Friends	Mr. Wheeler	0
79	1941	The Great Swindle	Dave Lennox	0
80	1941	Rookies on Parade	Augustus Moody	0
81	1941	Love Crazy	Lawyer George Renny	71
82	1941	Angels with Broken Wings	Guy Barton	37
83	1941	Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime	Anthony Rhodes	58
84	1941	The Feminine Touch	Freddie Bond	51
85	1941	The Officer and the Lady	Blake Standish	60
86	1941	Down Mexico Way	Ellery Gibson	0
87	1942	Nazi Agent	Arnold Milbar	66
88	1942	The Panther's Claw	Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt	60
89	1942	Always in My Heart	Philip Ames	60
90	1942	Obliging Young Lady	Henry - George's Attorney	50
91	1942	Gallant Lady	Steve Carey	50
92	1942	March On, America!	Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)	47
93	1942	Sabotage Squad	Carlyle Harrison	60
94	1943	Quiet Please, Murder	Martin Cleaver	68
95	1943	Murder in Times Square	George Nevins	46
96	1943	I Escaped from the Gestapo	Bergen	55
97	1943	In Old Oklahoma	Teddy Roosevelt	62
98	1944	Broadway Rhythm	Press Agent	55
99	1944	Buffalo Bill	Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)	58
100	1944	The Lady and the Monster	Eugene Fulton	58
101	1944	Wilson	Josephus Daniels	55
102	1946	Duel in the Sun	The Lover	63
103	1948	My Girl Tisa	Theodore Roosevelt	0
104	1948	A Song Is Born	Adams	65
105	1951	Saturday's Hero	T.C. McCabe	57
106	1951	People Will Talk	Arthur Higgins	71
107	1952	The San Francisco Story	Andrew Cain	48
108	1952	Washington Story	Philip Emery	60
109	1954	Johnny Dark	James Fielding	50
110	1954	The High and the Mighty	Humphrey Agnew	59
111	1955	The View from Pompey's Head	Garvin Wales	35
112	1956	High Society	Seth Lord	69
113	1956	Beyond a Reasonable Doubt	Austin Spencer	69
114	1956	The Little Foxes	Ben	0
115	1956	Accused of Murder	Frank Hobart	45
116	1957	Tammy and the Bachelor	Professor Brent	70
117	1958	Strange Witness	Christopher	0
118	1959	What Makes Sammy Run?	H.L. Harrington	70
119	1965	How to Murder Your Wife	Judge Blackstone	63
120	1965	Joy in the Morning	Dean James Darwent	35
121	1967	A Covenant with Death	Col. Oates	50
122	1968	Rosemary's Baby	Roman Castevet	78
123	1971	Revenge Is My Destiny	Gregory Mann	35
124	1971	Do You Take This Stranger?	G.R. Jarvis	50

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Marvin Platt	63
3	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		63
4	1949	Suspense	Dr. Steven Archer	49
5	1949	Suspense		49
6	1949	Lights Out		53
7	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents		56
8	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Vardis Ward	56
9	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Julian Prescott	56
10	1951	Tales of Tomorrow		60
11	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame		86
12	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Ben	86
13	1953	General Electric Theater	Christopher	63
14	1954	Climax!	Prrof. Watson	33
15	1954	Climax!	Frank Bellason	33
16	1955	The Star and the Story		70
17	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Frank Partridge	77
18	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Otis Jones	77
19	1955	Matinee Theater		50
20	1956	The Adventures of Jim Bowie		45
21	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Judge Hanavan	55
22	1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Judge Cooper	69
23	1958	The Texan		55
24	1958	The Rifleman		70
25	1958	Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse		58
26	1960	Thriller	Edward Stapleton	64
27	1961	Cain's Hundred	Joseph Callan	47
28	1961	Dr. Kildare	Dr. Carleton Lantzinge	55
29	1961	Dr. Kildare	Dr. Andrew Bennett	55
30	1961	Target: The Corruptors!		35
31	1961	Ben Casey		56
32	1963	The Outer Limits	William Lyons Selby	78
33	1964	Daniel Boone	Jasper Ledbedder	69
34	1964	Profiles in Courage	Oscar W. Underwood	50
35	1966	The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.		66
36	1968	The Name of the Game	Roman Stepanak	68
37	1968	The Name of the Game	Clarence Dunhill	68

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