Sidney Blackmer
124 movies · 28 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 12, 1895
- Died
- Oct 6, 1973 (age 78)
- Place of birth
- Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
- Also known as
- Sydney Blackmer · S.A. Blackmer · Sidney Alderman 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).
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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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Known for
Sidney Blackmer: movies and TV shows
Acting (152)
- 1971 Do You Take This Stranger?
as G.R. Jarvis
- 1971 Revenge Is My Destiny
as Gregory Mann
- 1968
- 1968 Rosemary's Baby
as Roman Castevet
- 1967 A Covenant with Death
as Col. Oates
- 1966
- 1965 Joy in the Morning
as Dean James Darwent
- 1965 How to Murder Your Wife
as Judge Blackstone
- 1964
- 1964
- 1963
- 1962 Stampede at Bitter Creek
as Sam Underwood
- 1961
- 1961
- 1961
- 1961
- 1960
- 1959 What Makes Sammy Run?
as H.L. Harrington
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958 Strange Witness
as Christopher
- 1957 Tammy and the Bachelor
as Professor Brent
- 1956 Accused of Murder
as Frank Hobart
- 1956 The Little Foxes
as Ben
- 1956
- 1956 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
as Austin Spencer
- 1956
- 1956 High Society
as Seth Lord
- 1955 The View from Pompey's Head
as Garvin Wales
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955
- 1954
- 1954 The High and the Mighty
as Humphrey Agnew
- 1954 Johnny Dark
as James Fielding
- 1953
- 1952
- 1952 Washington Story
as Philip Emery
- 1952 The San Francisco Story
as Andrew Cain
- 1951
- 1951 People Will Talk
as Arthur Higgins
- 1951
- 1951 Saturday's Hero
as T.C. McCabe
- 1950
- 1950
- 1949
- 1948 A Song Is Born
as Adams
- 1948
- 1948 My Girl Tisa
as Theodore Roosevelt
- 1946 Duel in the Sun
as The Lover
- 1944 Wilson
as Josephus Daniels
- 1944 The Lady and the Monster
as Eugene Fulton
- 1944 Buffalo Bill
as Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
- 1944 Broadway Rhythm
as Press Agent
- 1943 In Old Oklahoma
as Teddy Roosevelt
- 1943 I Escaped from the Gestapo
as Bergen
- 1943 Murder in Times Square
as George Nevins
- 1943 Quiet Please, Murder
as Martin Cleaver
- 1942 Sabotage Squad
as Carlyle Harrison
- 1942 March On, America!
as Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1942 Gallant Lady
as Steve Carey
- 1942 Obliging Young Lady
as Henry - George's Attorney
- 1942 Always in My Heart
as Philip Ames
- 1942 The Panther's Claw
as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
- 1942 Nazi Agent
as Arnold Milbar
- 1941 Down Mexico Way
as Ellery Gibson
- 1941 The Officer and the Lady
as Blake Standish
- 1941 The Feminine Touch
as Freddie Bond
- 1941 Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
as Anthony Rhodes
- 1941 Angels with Broken Wings
as Guy Barton
- 1941 Love Crazy
as Lawyer George Renny
- 1941 Rookies on Parade
as Augustus Moody
- 1941 The Great Swindle
as Dave Lennox
- 1941 Murder Among Friends
as Mr. Wheeler
- 1941 Cheers for Miss Bishop
as John Stevens
- 1940 Third Finger, Left Hand
as Hughie Wheeler
- 1940 I Want a Divorce
as Erskine Brandon
- 1940 Dance, Girl, Dance
as Puss in Boots
- 1940 Maryland
as Spencer Danfield
- 1940 Framed
as Tony Bowman
- 1940 Teddy the Rough Rider
as Theodore Roosevelt
- 1939 Law of the Pampas
as Ralph Merritt
- 1939 The Monroe Doctrine
as Theodore Roosevelt
- 1939 Hotel for Women
as McNeil
- 1939 Land of Liberty
as Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
- 1939 Trapped in the Sky
as Mann
- 1939 Unmarried
as Cash Enright
- 1939 It's a Wonderful World
as Al Mallon
- 1939 Within the Law
as George Demarest
- 1939 Fast and Loose
as "Lucky" Nolan
- 1939 Convict's Code
as Gregory Warren
- 1938 Trade Winds
as Thomas Bruhme II
- 1938 While New York Sleeps
as Ralph Simmons
- 1938 Sharpshooters
as Baron Orloff
- 1938 Suez
as Marquis Du Brey
- 1938 Down on the Farm
as Political Boss
- 1938 Straight, Place and Show
as 'Lucky' Braddock
- 1938 Speed to Burn
as Hastings
- 1938 In Old Chicago
as General Phil Sheridan
- 1937 Thank You, Mr. Moto
as Herr Eric Koeger
- 1937 Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
as Victor Karnoff
- 1937 The Last Gangster
as San Francisco Editor
- 1937 Heidi
as Sesemann
- 1937 Wife, Doctor and Nurse
as Dr. Gordon Therberg
- 1937 The Women Men Marry
as Walter Wiley
- 1937 This Is My Affair
as President Theodore Roosevelt
- 1937 Michael O'Halloran
as Jim Mintum
- 1937 John Meade's Woman
as Rodney
- 1937 A Doctor's Diary
as Dr. Anson Ludlow
- 1937 Girl Overboard
as Alex LeMaire
- 1936 The House of Secrets
as Tom Starr
- 1936 The President's Mystery
as George Sartos
- 1936 Missing Girls
as Dan Collins
- 1936 Early to Bed
as Rex Daniels
- 1936 Florida Special
as Jack Macklyn
- 1936 Woman Trap
as Riley Ferguson
- 1936 Heart of the West
as Big John Trumbull
- 1935 Forced Landing
as Tony Bernardi
- 1935 The Fire-Trap
as Cedric McIntyre
- 1935 False Pretenses
as Kenneth Alden
- 1935 The Girl Who Came Back
as Bill Rhodes
- 1935 Streamline Express
as Gilbert Landon
- 1935 Smart Girl
as Harry Courtland
- 1935 Shadows of the Orient
as King Moss
- 1935 Great God Gold
as John Hart
- 1935 Behind the Green Lights
as Raymond Cortell
- 1935 The Little Colonel
as Swazey
- 1935 A Notorious Gentleman
as Clayton Bradford
- 1934 The President Vanishes
as D.L. Voorman
- 1934 Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
as Lee Lother
- 1934 The Count of Monte Cristo
as Mondego
- 1934 Down to Their Last Yacht
as Barry Forbes
- 1934 This Man Is Mine
as Mort Holmes
- 1933 Good-bye Love
as Chester Hamilton
- 1933 Deluge
as Martin Webster
- 1933 The Wrecker
as Tom Cummings
- 1933 Cocktail Hour
as Lawton
- 1933 From Hell to Heaven
as Cliff Billings
- 1931 The Lady Who Dared
as Charles Townsend
- 1931 It's a Wise Child
as Steve
- 1931 Woman Hungry
as Geoffrey Brand
- 1931 Little Caesar
as Big Boy
- 1930 Mothers Cry
as Mr. Gerald Hart
- 1930 Kismet
as Wazir Mansur
- 1930 The Bad Man
as Morgan Pell
- 1930 Sweethearts and Wives
as Anthony Peel
- 1930 Strictly Modern
as Heath Desmond
- 1929
- 1929 A Most Immoral Lady
as Humphrey Sergeant
- 1914
Talk shows and appearances (4)
- 1950
- 1949 Lights Out
1 episode
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
1 episode
- 1930