Sidney Blackmer
Acting
🎂 1895-07-12
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.
Cast credits(162)
1958
Judge Hanavan
1958
Prrof. Watson
1954
Frank Bellason
1954
1950
Vardis Ward
1950
Julian Prescott
1950
Jasper Ledbedder
1964
1955
Judge Hanavan
1956
Marvin Platt
1948
1948
Judge Cooper
1958
Dr. Carleton Lantzinge
1961
Dr. Andrew Bennett
1961
Roman Stepanak
1968
Clarence Dunhill
1968
1961
William Lyons Selby
1963
Edward Stapleton
1960
Dr. Steven Archer
1949
1949
1949
Self
1948
1958
Frank Partridge
1955
Otis Jones
1955
1958
1956
1951
Professor Antrum
1966
Roman Castevet
1968
1961
Joseph Callan
1961
Oscar W. Underwood
1964
Seth Lord
1956
Judge Blackstone
1965
The Lover
1946
Humphrey Agnew
1954
1951
Ben
1951
Raymond Cortell
1935
Augustus Moody
1941
1955
Col. Oates
1967
Professor Brent
1957
Cedric McIntyre
1935
Press Agent
1944
Big Boy
1931
George Nevins
1943
Christopher
1953
Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)
1942
Sesemann
1937
Al Mallon
1939
James Fielding
1954
Adams
1948
George Sartos
1936
Spencer Danfield
1940
Frank Hobart
1956
Anthony Rhodes
1941
Garvin Wales
1955
Josephus Daniels
1944
Mort Holmes
1934
Tom Cummings
1933
President Theodore Roosevelt
1937
Arthur Higgins
1951
Andrew Cain
1952
Teddy Roosevelt
1943
"Lucky" Nolan
1939
John Stevens
1941
Herr Eric Koeger
1937
Ralph Merritt
1939
Lawyer George Renny
1941
Cliff Billings
1933
D.L. Voorman
1934
T.C. McCabe
1951
Guy Barton
1941
Dr. Gordon Therberg
1937
Austin Spencer
1956
McNeil
1939
Tony Bernardi
1935
Mondego
1934
Jack Macklyn
1936
Marquis Du Brey
1938
Harry Courtland
1935
Theodore Roosevelt
1940
Self
1930
Hughie Wheeler
1940
Arnold Milbar
1942
Freddie Bond
1941
Victor Karnoff
1937
Thomas Bruhme II
1938
Walter Wiley
1937
Henry - George's Attorney
1942
General Phil Sheridan
1938
G.R. Jarvis
1971
Tony Bowman
1940
Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
1944
Ellery Gibson
1941
Clayton Bradford
1935
Gregory Warren
1939
George Demarest
1939
Lee Lother
1934
H.L. Harrington
1959
Gregory Mann
1971
Puss in Boots
1940
Steve
1931
Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
1942
Gilbert Landon
1935
Christopher
1958
Ralph Simmons
1938
Big John Trumbull
1936
Bill Rhodes
1935
Mr. Gerald Hart
1930
Tom Starr
1936
Mr. Wheeler
1941
Cash Enright
1939
'Lucky' Braddock
1938
Rodney
1937
Erskine Brandon
1940
Martin Webster
1933
Swazey
1935
Barry Forbes
1934
Mann
1939
Martin Cleaver
1943
Chester Hamilton
1933
Lawton
1933
Baron Orloff
1938
Jim Mintum
1937
Philip Ames
1942
Riley Ferguson
1936
Charles Townsend
1931
Geoffrey Brand
1931
Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
1939
1929
Bergen
1943
Wazir Mansur
1930
Blake Standish
1941
Dave Lennox
1941
Eugene Fulton
1944
Kenneth Alden
1935
Carlyle Harrison
1942
Dan Collins
1936
Morgan Pell
1930
Political Boss
1938
San Francisco Editor
1937
Heath Desmond
1930
King Moss
1935
Theodore Roosevelt
1948
Dr. Anson Ludlow
1937
Theodore Roosevelt
1939
Humphrey Sergeant
1929
Anthony Peel
1930
John Hart
1935
1914
Philip Emery
1952
Dean James Darwent
1965
Rex Daniels
1936
Alex LeMaire
1937
Ben
1956
Hastings
1938
Steve Carey
1942