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