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Sidney Blackmer

Born · July 12, 1895

Died · October 6, 1973 (78 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Salisbury, North Carolina, USA

Bio

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

Do You Take This Stranger?

G.R. Jarvis

5.0

1971

Revenge Is My Destiny

Gregory Mann

3.5

1971

The Name of the Game

Roman Stepanak · (1 episode)

6.8

1968

The Name of the Game

Clarence Dunhill · (1 episode)

6.8

1968

Rosemary's Baby

Roman Castevet

7.8

1968

A Covenant with Death

Col. Oates

5.0

1967

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

(1 episode)

6.6

1966

Joy in the Morning

Dean James Darwent

3.5

1965

How to Murder Your Wife

Judge Blackstone

6.3

1965

Profiles in Courage

Oscar W. Underwood · (1 episode)

5.0

1964

Daniel Boone

Jasper Ledbedder · (1 episode)

6.9

1964

The Outer Limits

William Lyons Selby · (1 episode)

7.8

1963

Ben Casey

(5 episodes)

5.6

1961

Target: The Corruptors!

(1 episode)

3.5

1961

Dr. Kildare

Dr. Carleton Lantzinge · (1 episode)

5.5

1961

Dr. Kildare

Dr. Andrew Bennett · (1 episode)

5.5

1961

Cain's Hundred

Joseph Callan · (1 episode)

4.7

1961

Thriller

Edward Stapleton · (1 episode)

6.3

1960

What Makes Sammy Run?

H.L. Harrington

7.0

1959

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

(1 episode)

5.3

1958

The Rifleman

(3 episodes)

7.0

1958

The Texan

(1 episode)

5.0

1958

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Judge Cooper · (1 episode)

6.9

1958

Strange Witness

Christopher

0.0

1958

Tammy and the Bachelor

Professor Brent

7.0

1957

Accused of Murder

Frank Hobart

4.5

1956

The Little Foxes

Ben

0.0

1956

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Judge Hanavan · (1 episode)

5.5

1956

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Austin Spencer

6.9

1956

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

(3 episodes)

3.7

1956

High Society

Seth Lord

6.9

1956

The View from Pompey's Head

Garvin Wales

3.5

1955

Matinee Theater

(2 episodes)

4.6

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Frank Partridge · (1 episode)

7.7

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Otis Jones · (1 episode)

7.7

1955

The Star and the Story

(1 episode)

0.0

1955

Climax!

4.8

1952

Hallmark Hall of Fame

(1 episode)

8.7

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Ben · (1 episode)

8.7

1951

People Will Talk

Arthur Higgins

7.2

1951

Tales of Tomorrow

(1 episode)

6.0

1951

Saturday's Hero

T.C. McCabe

5.7

1951

Robert Montgomery Presents

6.6

1948

My Girl Tisa

Theodore Roosevelt

0.0

1948

Duel in the Sun

The Lover

6.3

1946

Wilson

Josephus Daniels

5.5

1944

The Lady and the Monster

Eugene Fulton

5.8

1944

Buffalo Bill

Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)

5.8

1944

Broadway Rhythm

Press Agent

5.5

1944

In Old Oklahoma

Teddy Roosevelt

6.2

1943

I Escaped from the Gestapo

Bergen

5.5

1943

Murder in Times Square

George Nevins

4.6

1943

Quiet Please, Murder

Martin Cleaver

6.8

1943

Sabotage Squad

Carlyle Harrison

6.0

1942

March On, America!

Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)

4.7

1942

Gallant Lady

Steve Carey

5.0

1942

Obliging Young Lady

Henry - George's Attorney

5.0

1942

Always in My Heart

Philip Ames

6.0

1942

The Panther's Claw

Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt

6.0

1942

Nazi Agent

Arnold Milbar

6.6

1942

Down Mexico Way

Ellery Gibson

0.0

1941

The Officer and the Lady

Blake Standish

6.0

1941

The Feminine Touch

Freddie Bond

5.1

1941

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

Anthony Rhodes

5.8

1941

Angels with Broken Wings

Guy Barton

3.7

1941

Love Crazy

Lawyer George Renny

7.1

1941

Rookies on Parade

Augustus Moody

0.0

1941

The Great Swindle

Dave Lennox

0.0

1941

Murder Among Friends

Mr. Wheeler

0.0

1941

Cheers for Miss Bishop

John Stevens

5.9

1941

Third Finger, Left Hand

Hughie Wheeler

6.8

1940

I Want a Divorce

Erskine Brandon

0.0

1940

Dance, Girl, Dance

Puss in Boots

6.4

1940

Maryland

Spencer Danfield

6.2

1940

Framed

Tony Bowman

5.8

1940

Teddy the Rough Rider

Theodore Roosevelt

6.4

1940

Law of the Pampas

Ralph Merritt

5.0

1939

The Monroe Doctrine

Theodore Roosevelt

7.0

1939

Hotel for Women

McNeil

6.0

1939

Land of Liberty

Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')

0.0

1939

Trapped in the Sky

Mann

0.0

1939

Unmarried

Cash Enright

3.0

1939

It's a Wonderful World

Al Mallon

6.4

1939

Within the Law

George Demarest

6.0

1939

Fast and Loose

"Lucky" Nolan

5.6

1939

Convict's Code

Gregory Warren

6.5

1939

Trade Winds

Thomas Bruhme II

6.3

1938

While New York Sleeps

Ralph Simmons

0.0

1938

Sharpshooters

Baron Orloff

0.0

1938

Suez

Marquis Du Brey

5.2

1938

Down on the Farm

Political Boss

0.0

1938

Straight, Place and Show

'Lucky' Braddock

6.0

1938

Speed to Burn

Hastings

6.0

1938

In Old Chicago

General Phil Sheridan

6.4

1938

Thank You, Mr. Moto

Herr Eric Koeger

6.1

1937

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo

Victor Karnoff

6.5

1937

The Last Gangster

San Francisco Editor

6.3

1937

Heidi

Sesemann

6.9

1937

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

Dr. Gordon Therberg

6.0

1937

The Women Men Marry

Walter Wiley

5.5

1937

This Is My Affair

President Theodore Roosevelt

7.3

1937

Michael O'Halloran

Jim Mintum

0.0

1937

John Meade's Woman

Rodney

0.0

1937

A Doctor's Diary

Dr. Anson Ludlow

10.0

1937

Girl Overboard

Alex LeMaire

0.0

1937

The House of Secrets

Tom Starr

5.6

1936

The President's Mystery

George Sartos

5.3

1936

Missing Girls

Dan Collins

5.0

1936

Early to Bed

Rex Daniels

7.0

1936

Florida Special

Jack Macklyn

6.0

1936

Woman Trap

Riley Ferguson

0.0

1936

Heart of the West

Big John Trumbull

4.5

1936

Forced Landing

Tony Bernardi

Woman Hungry

Geoffrey Brand

0.0

1931

Little Caesar

Big Boy

6.9

1931

Mothers Cry

Mr. Gerald Hart

0.0

1930

Kismet

Wazir Mansur

3.5

1930

The Bad Man

Morgan Pell

0.0

1930

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

Self

3.4

1930

Sweethearts and Wives

Anthony Peel

0.0

1930

Strictly Modern

Heath Desmond

0.0

1930

The Love Racket

0.0

1929

A Most Immoral Lady

Humphrey Sergeant

1.0

1929