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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.
Acted in 148
1970s
- 1971
Do You Take This Stranger?
G.R. Jarvis
1960s
- 1968
- 1967
A Covenant with Death
Col. Oates
- 1966
- 1965
Joy in the Morning
Dean James Darwent
- 1964
- 1963
- 1962
Stampede at Bitter Creek
Sam Underwood
- 1961
- 1960
1950s
- 1959
What Makes Sammy Run?
H.L. Harrington
- 1958
Strange Witness
Christopher
- 1957
- 1956
Accused of Murder
Frank Hobart
The Little Foxes
Ben
- 1955
The View from Pompey's Head
Garvin Wales
The Star and the Story
TV
- 1954
Johnny Dark
James Fielding
- 1953
General Electric Theater
Christopher · 1 episode
- 1952
Washington Story
Philip Emery
The San Francisco Story
Andrew Cain
- 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Ben · 1 episode
People Will Talk
Arthur Higgins
Saturday's Hero
T.C. McCabe
- 1950
1940s
- 1949
- 1948
My Girl Tisa
Theodore Roosevelt
- 1946
- 1944
Wilson
Josephus Daniels
The Lady and the Monster
Eugene Fulton
Broadway Rhythm
Press Agent
- 1943
I Escaped from the Gestapo
Bergen
Murder in Times Square
George Nevins
Quiet Please, Murder
Martin Cleaver
- 1942
Sabotage Squad
Carlyle Harrison
March On, America!
Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)
Obliging Young Lady
Henry - George's Attorney
Always in My Heart
Philip Ames
The Panther's Claw
Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
Nazi Agent
Arnold Milbar
- 1941
The Officer and the Lady
Blake Standish
The Feminine Touch
Freddie Bond
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
Anthony Rhodes
Angels with Broken Wings
Guy Barton
Rookies on Parade
Augustus Moody
The Great Swindle
Dave Lennox
Murder Among Friends
Mr. Wheeler
- 1940
Third Finger, Left Hand
Hughie Wheeler
I Want a Divorce
Erskine Brandon
Dance, Girl, Dance
Puss in Boots
Maryland
Spencer Danfield
Framed
Tony Bowman
Teddy the Rough Rider
Theodore Roosevelt
1930s
- 1939
The Monroe Doctrine
Theodore Roosevelt
Hotel for Women
McNeil
Land of Liberty
Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
Trapped in the Sky
Mann
Unmarried
Cash Enright
It's a Wonderful World
Al Mallon
Within the Law
George Demarest
Fast and Loose
"Lucky" Nolan
Convict's Code
Gregory Warren
- 1938
Trade Winds
Thomas Bruhme II
While New York Sleeps
Ralph Simmons
Sharpshooters
Baron Orloff
Suez
Marquis Du Brey
Down on the Farm
Political Boss
Straight, Place and Show
'Lucky' Braddock
Speed to Burn
Hastings
In Old Chicago
General Phil Sheridan
- 1937
Thank You, Mr. Moto
Herr Eric Koeger
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Dr. Gordon Therberg
The Women Men Marry
Walter Wiley
This Is My Affair
President Theodore Roosevelt
Michael O'Halloran
Jim Mintum
John Meade's Woman
Rodney Bentley
A Doctor's Diary
Dr. Anson Ludlow
Girl Overboard
Alex LeMaire
- 1936
The President's Mystery
George Sartos
Missing Girls
Dan Collins
Early to Bed
Rex Daniels
Florida Special
Jack Macklyn
Heart of the West
Big John Trumbull
- 1935
Forced Landing
Tony Bernardi
The Girl Who Came Back
Bill Rhodes
Streamline Express
Gilbert Landon
Smart Girl
Harry Courtland
Shadows of the Orient
King Moss
Great God Gold
John Hart
Behind the Green Lights
Raymond Cortell
The Little Colonel
Swazey
A Notorious Gentleman
Clayton Bradford
- 1934
The President Vanishes
D.L. Voorman
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Lee Lother
Down to Their Last Yacht
Barry Forbes
This Man Is Mine
Mort Holmes
- 1933
Good-bye Love
Chester Hamilton
Deluge
Martin Webster
Cocktail Hour
Lawton
From Hell to Heaven
Cliff Billings
- 1931
The Lady Who Dared
Charles Townsend
It's a Wise Child
Steve
Woman Hungry
Geoffrey Brand
- 1930
Mothers Cry
Mr. Gerald Hart
Kismet
Wazir Mansur
The Bad Man
Morgan Pell
Strictly Modern
Heath Desmond
1920s
- 1929
The Love Racket
Movie
A Most Immoral Lady
Humphrey Sergeant
Appearances3
1950s
- 1950
Farewell to Yesterday
Self - Narrator(voice)
1940s
- 1948
1930s
- 1930
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Self