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