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