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