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