Sidney Blackmer
Known for Acting · 156 credits
- Born
- 1895-07-12
- Died
- 1973-10-06
- Place of birth
- Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
- Also known as
- Sydney Blackmer · S.A. Blackmer · Sidney Alderman Blackmer
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.
Known For
TV Shows (30)
The Rifleman
1958
as Judge Hanavan
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Marvin Platt
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Vardis Ward / Julian Prescott
Matinee Theater
1955
Climax!
1954
as Prrof. Watson / Frank Bellason
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Judge Hanavan
Ben Casey
1961
Dr. Kildare
1961
as Dr. Carleton Lantzinge / Dr. Andrew Bennett
Daniel Boone
1964
as Jasper Ledbedder
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
as Judge Cooper
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
The Outer Limits
1963
as William Lyons Selby
The Name of the Game
1968
as Roman Stepanak / Clarence Dunhill
Thriller
1960
as Edward Stapleton
Lights Out
1949
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Frank Partridge / Otis Jones
Suspense
1949
as Dr. Steven Archer
The Texan
1958
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
as Wade Anthony
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
as Woodson
Tales of Tomorrow
1951
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
Cain's Hundred
1961
as Joseph Callan
Armstrong Circle Theatre
1950
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966
as Professor Antrum
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
Profiles in Courage
1964
as Oscar W. Underwood
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Ben
The Star and the Story
1955
General Electric Theater
1953
as Christopher
Movies (126)
Rosemary's Baby
1968
as Roman Castevet
Heidi
1937
as Sesemann
High Society
1956
as Seth Lord
Little Caesar
1931
as Big Boy
Wilson
1944
as Josephus Daniels
Buffalo Bill
1944
as Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
Deluge
1933
as Martin Webster
Sabotage Squad
1942
as Carlyle Harrison
The High and the Mighty
1954
as Humphrey Agnew
Framed
1940
as Tony Bowman
Duel in the Sun
1946
as The Lover
Broadway Rhythm
1944
as Press Agent
Sharpshooters
1938
as Baron Orloff
Unmarried
1939
as Cash Enright
How to Murder Your Wife
1965
as Judge Blackstone
Missing Girls
1936
as Dan Collins
Girl Overboard
1937
as Alex LeMaire
In Old Oklahoma
1943
as Teddy Roosevelt
Maryland
1940
as Spencer Danfield
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1956
as Austin Spencer
Woman Hungry
1931
as Geoffrey Brand
Joy in the Morning
1965
as Dean James Darwent
People Will Talk
1951
as Arthur Higgins
The Count of Monte Cristo
1934
as Mondego
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
1937
as Victor Karnoff
A Song Is Born
1948
as Adams
Suez
1938
as Marquis Du Brey
Fast and Loose
1939
as "Lucky" Nolan
Smart Girl
1935
as Harry Courtland
The Little Colonel
1935
as Swazey
Quiet Please, Murder
1943
as Martin Cleaver
Dance, Girl, Dance
1940
as Puss in Boots
Early to Bed
1936
as Rex Daniels
Trade Winds
1938
as Thomas Bruhme II
It's a Wonderful World
1939
as Al Mallon
Nazi Agent
1942
as Arnold Milbar
Tammy and the Bachelor
1957
as Professor Brent
Within the Law
1939
as George Demarest
The Last Gangster
1937
as San Francisco Editor
Johnny Dark
1954
as James Fielding
Love Crazy
1941
as Lawyer George Renny
In Old Chicago
1938
as General Phil Sheridan
While New York Sleeps
1938
as Ralph Simmons
The House of Secrets
1936
as Tom Starr
Strange Witness
1958
as Christopher
The Wrecker
1933
as Tom Cummings
A Covenant with Death
1967
as Col. Oates
The View from Pompey's Head
1955
as Garvin Wales
Obliging Young Lady
1942
as Henry - George's Attorney
Thank You, Mr. Moto
1937
as Herr Eric Koeger
Third Finger, Left Hand
1940
as Hughie Wheeler
The Feminine Touch
1941
as Freddie Bond
Good-bye Love
1933
as Chester Hamilton
This Is My Affair
1937
as President Theodore Roosevelt
Streamline Express
1935
as Gilbert Landon
Land of Liberty
1939
as Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
False Pretenses
1935
as Kenneth Alden
Woman Trap
1936
as Riley Ferguson
Rookies on Parade
1941
as Augustus Moody
The President Vanishes
1934
as D.L. Voorman
Hotel for Women
1939
as McNeil
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937
as Dr. Gordon Therberg
The Little Foxes
1956
as Ben
Kismet
1930
as Wazir Mansur
Down Mexico Way
1941
as Ellery Gibson
Mothers Cry
1930
as Mr. Gerald Hart
This Man Is Mine
1934
as Mort Holmes
Cheers for Miss Bishop
1941
as John Stevens
The President's Mystery
1936
as George Sartos
Saturday's Hero
1951
as T.C. McCabe
The Girl Who Came Back
1935
as Bill Rhodes
Always in My Heart
1942
as Philip Ames
The Monroe Doctrine
1939
as Theodore Roosevelt
Down to Their Last Yacht
1934
as Barry Forbes
The Bad Man
1930
as Morgan Pell
The Panther's Claw
1942
as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
From Hell to Heaven
1933
as Cliff Billings
Accused of Murder
1956
as Frank Hobart
Speed to Burn
1938
as Hastings
The Fire-Trap
1935
as Cedric McIntyre
My Girl Tisa
1948
as Theodore Roosevelt
John Meade's Woman
1937
as Rodney
Do You Take This Stranger?
1971
as G.R. Jarvis
Revenge Is My Destiny
1971
as Gregory Mann
Florida Special
1936
as Jack Macklyn
Gallant Lady
1942
as Steve Carey
A Most Immoral Lady
1929
as Humphrey Sergeant
Law of the Pampas
1939
as Ralph Merritt
Teddy the Rough Rider
1940
as Theodore Roosevelt
The San Francisco Story
1952
as Andrew Cain
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
1934
as Lee Lother
The Women Men Marry
1937
as Walter Wiley
The Lady and the Monster
1944
as Eugene Fulton
Cocktail Hour
1933
as Lawton
I Escaped from the Gestapo
1943
as Bergen
It's a Wise Child
1931
as Steve
Trapped in the Sky
1939
as Mann
Angels with Broken Wings
1941
as Guy Barton
Washington Story
1952
as Philip Emery
Convict's Code
1939
as Gregory Warren
Beating Back
1914
The Officer and the Lady
1941
as Blake Standish
Michael O'Halloran
1937
as Jim Mintum
Murder in Times Square
1943
as George Nevins
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
1941
as Anthony Rhodes
Down on the Farm
1938
as Political Boss
Forced Landing
1935
as Tony Bernardi
Great God Gold
1935
as John Hart
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
1930
as Self
Strictly Modern
1930
as Heath Desmond
Straight, Place and Show
1938
as 'Lucky' Braddock
Behind the Green Lights
1935
as Raymond Cortell
A Doctor's Diary
1937
as Dr. Anson Ludlow
Stampede at Bitter Creek
1962
as Sam Underwood
The Great Swindle
1941
as Dave Lennox
Farewell to Yesterday
1950
as Self - Narrator(voice)
March On, America!
1942
as Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)
Heart of the West
1936
as Big John Trumbull
I Want a Divorce
1940
as Erskine Brandon
Sweethearts and Wives
1930
as Anthony Peel
About Sidney Blackmer
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 bi… With 156 credits spanning from 1914 to 1971, Sidney Blackmer has appeared in 126 films and 30 TV shows.
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