Sidney Blackmer

Acting · 0.9 popularity

Age

131

Movies

126

Born: July 12, 1895 – October 6, 1973
From: Salisbury, North Carolina, USA

Biography

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.

Works

126 films

Rosemary's Baby

19687.8

High Society

19566.8

Tammy and the Bachelor

19577.0

The High and the Mighty

19545.9

Duel in the Sun

19466.4

How to Murder Your Wife

19656.3

It's a Wonderful World

19396.6

Heidi

19376.9

Good-bye Love

19336.3

Dance, Girl, Dance

19406.4

In Old Chicago

19386.7

The Count of Monte Cristo

19346.8

Little Caesar

19316.9

Missing Girls

19366.3

In Old Oklahoma

19436.2

The Little Colonel

19356.6

Woman Trap

19368.0

A Song Is Born

19486.4

Gallant Lady

19426.5

Down Mexico Way

194110.0

Love Crazy

19416.8

Obliging Young Lady

19426.0

The Last Gangster

19376.4

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo

19376.3

It's a Wise Child

19316.3

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

19566.9

People Will Talk

19517.1

Do You Take This Stranger?

19716.0

False Pretenses

19357.3

Unmarried

19394.8

Suez

19385.5

Girl Overboard

19379.0

Third Finger, Left Hand

19407.0

A Covenant with Death

19674.8

Always in My Heart

19426.3

Wilson

19445.6

Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round

19344.6

The San Francisco Story

19524.9

The Lady and the Monster

19446.0

Michael O'Halloran

19379.0

Heart of the West

19365.3

My Girl Tisa

19489.0

Down on the Farm

193810.0

Teddy the Rough Rider

19406.8

Buffalo Bill

19445.8

Nazi Agent

19426.6

Within the Law

19396.5

Deluge

19336.0

The House of Secrets

19365.5

Land of Liberty

19399.0

I Want a Divorce

194010.0

This Man Is Mine

19345.9

The Little Foxes

1956

Saturday's Hero

19516.3

Farewell to Yesterday

19509.0

Convict's Code

19395.3

The View from Pompey's Head

19553.8

Trade Winds

19386.4

The Great Swindle

19418.0

Cocktail Hour

19335.3

Law of the Pampas

19395.0

Broadway Rhythm

19446.3

The Lady Who Dared

19317.0

Johnny Dark

19545.8

The Bad Man

19309.0

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

19415.8

Accused of Murder

19564.8

Straight, Place and Show

19387.0

Thank You, Mr. Moto

19376.2

Shadows of the Orient

19356.0

The President Vanishes

19346.0

Angels with Broken Wings

19415.3

This Is My Affair

19377.3

Maryland

19406.5

While New York Sleeps

19387.0

Murder in Times Square

19434.7

The Monroe Doctrine

19397.0

Streamline Express

19356.0

Sabotage Squad

19427.5

Quiet Please, Murder

19437.0

The President's Mystery

19365.8

From Hell to Heaven

19337.8

Cheers for Miss Bishop

19415.8

Florida Special

19367.0

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

19377.0

March On, America!

19425.5

Rookies on Parade

194110.0

Hotel for Women

19397.5

Washington Story

19527.0

Fast and Loose

19395.9

Trapped in the Sky

19398.0

The Women Men Marry

19376.3

The Love Racket

19298.0

Joy in the Morning

19654.3

Forced Landing

19358.0

Stampede at Bitter Creek

1962

I Escaped from the Gestapo

19436.0

The Feminine Touch

19415.1

Down to Their Last Yacht

19346.5

The Girl Who Came Back

19356.0

Kismet

19304.0

Early to Bed

19368.0

The Wrecker

19333.7

The Panther's Claw

19426.5

John Meade's Woman

19377.0

Mothers Cry

19306.0

Murder Among Friends

19417.0

Speed to Burn

19387.5

What Makes Sammy Run?

19597.0

Woman Hungry

193110.0

A Doctor's Diary

19379.0

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

19304.5

Smart Girl

19357.0

Behind the Green Lights

19358.0

The Officer and the Lady

19418.0

Sharpshooters

19388.0

Beating Back

1914

Revenge Is My Destiny

19715.7

Framed

19406.2

The Fire-Trap

19354.7

A Notorious Gentleman

19356.5

Sweethearts and Wives

193010.0

A Most Immoral Lady

19293.3

Great God Gold

19355.5

Strange Witness

1958

Strictly Modern

19307.0