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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.
Movie | Terror in the Aisles | Roman Castevet (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1984-10-26 |
Movie | Revenge Is My Destiny | Gregory Mann | 1971-01-01 |
Movie | Do You Take This Stranger? | G.R. Jarvis | 1971-01-17 |
Movie | Rosemary's Baby | Roman Castevet | 1968-06-12 |
Movie | A Covenant with Death | Col. Oates | 1967-02-15 |
Series | The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown | 1966-09-13 |
Movie | How to Murder Your Wife | Judge Blackstone | 1965-01-26 |
Movie | Joy in the Morning | Dean James Darwent | 1965-05-05 |
Series | Daniel Boone | Unknown | 1964-09-24 |
Series | Profiles in Courage | Unknown | 1964-11-08 |
Series | The Outer Limits | Unknown | 1963-09-16 |
Series | Cain's Hundred | Unknown | 1961-09-19 |
Series | Dr. Kildare | Unknown | 1961-09-27 |
Series | Ben Casey | Unknown | 1961-10-02 |
Series | Target: The Corruptors! | Unknown | 1961-09-29 |
Series | Thriller | Unknown | 1960-09-13 |
Movie | What Makes Sammy Run? | H.L. Harrington | 1959-09-27 |
Series | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | Unknown | 1958-10-06 |
Series | The Texan | Unknown | 1958-09-29 |
Series | Wanted: Dead or Alive | Unknown | 1958-09-06 |
Series | The Rifleman | Unknown | 1958-09-30 |
Movie | Tammy and the Bachelor | Professor Brent | 1957-06-14 |
Series | The Adventures of Jim Bowie | Unknown | 1956-09-07 |
Movie | High Society | Seth Lord | 1956-07-17 |
Movie | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Austin Spencer | 1956-09-13 |
Series | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Unknown | 1956-10-05 |
Movie | The Little Foxes | Ben | 1956-12-16 |
Movie | Accused of Murder | Frank Hobart | 1956-12-21 |
Series | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown | 1955-10-02 |
Series | The Star and the Story | Unknown | 1955-01-08 |
Series | Matinee Theater | Unknown | 1955-10-31 |
Movie | The View from Pompey's Head | Garvin Wales | 1955-11-04 |
Movie | Johnny Dark | James Fielding | 1954-06-25 |
Movie | The High and the Mighty | Humphrey Agnew | 1954-07-03 |
Series | Climax! | Unknown | 1954-10-07 |
Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
Movie | The San Francisco Story | Andrew Cain | 1952-05-11 |
Movie | Washington Story | Philip Emery | 1952-07-01 |
Movie | Saturday's Hero | T.C. McCabe | 1951-03-01 |
Series | Tales of Tomorrow | Unknown | 1951-08-03 |
Movie | People Will Talk | Arthur Higgins | 1951-08-29 |
Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |
Series | Robert Montgomery Presents | Unknown | 1950-01-30 |
Series | Lights Out | Unknown | 1949-07-19 |
Series | Suspense | Unknown | 1949-01-06 |
Movie | My Girl Tisa | Theodore Roosevelt | 1948-02-07 |
Series | The Philco Television Playhouse | Unknown | 1948-10-03 |
Movie | A Song Is Born | Adams | 1948-10-19 |
Movie | Duel in the Sun | The Lover | 1946-12-31 |
Movie | Broadway Rhythm | Press Agent | 1944-01-19 |
Movie | Buffalo Bill | Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited) | 1944-04-02 |
Movie | The Lady and the Monster | Eugene Fulton | 1944-04-17 |
Movie | Wilson | Josephus Daniels | 1944-08-01 |
Movie | Quiet Please, Murder | Martin Cleaver | 1943-03-19 |
Movie | Murder in Times Square | George Nevins | 1943-04-01 |
Movie | I Escaped from the Gestapo | Bergen | 1943-05-14 |
Movie | In Old Oklahoma | Teddy Roosevelt | 1943-12-06 |
Movie | The Panther's Claw | Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt | 1942-03-03 |
Movie | Nazi Agent | Arnold Milbar | 1942-03-01 |
Movie | Always in My Heart | Philip Ames | 1942-03-14 |
Movie | Gallant Lady | Steve Carey | 1942-05-29 |
Movie | Sabotage Squad | Carlyle Harrison | 1942-08-27 |
Movie | Obliging Young Lady | Henry - George's Attorney | 1942-04-01 |
Movie | March On, America! | Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1942-06-20 |
Movie | Rookies on Parade | Augustus Moody | 1941-04-16 |
Movie | Love Crazy | Lawyer George Renny | 1941-05-23 |
Movie | Cheers for Miss Bishop | John Stevens | 1941-02-21 |
Movie | Murder Among Friends | Mr. Wheeler | 1941-02-28 |
Movie | Angels with Broken Wings | Guy Barton | 1941-05-27 |
Movie | The Feminine Touch | Freddie Bond | 1941-10-01 |
Movie | Down Mexico Way | Ellery Gibson | 1941-10-15 |
Movie | Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime | Anthony Rhodes | 1941-08-14 |
Movie | Framed | Tony Bowman | 1940-02-23 |
Movie | Teddy the Rough Rider | Theodore Roosevelt | 1940-02-21 |
Movie | Maryland | Spencer Danfield | 1940-07-19 |
Movie | Dance, Girl, Dance | Puss in Boots | 1940-08-30 |
Movie | I Want a Divorce | Erskine Brandon | 1940-09-20 |
Movie | Third Finger, Left Hand | Hughie Wheeler | 1940-10-11 |
Movie | Fast and Loose | 'Lucky' Nolan | 1939-02-17 |
Movie | Convict's Code | Gregory Warren | 1939-01-18 |
Movie | It's a Wonderful World | Al Mallon | 1939-05-19 |
Movie | Within the Law | George Demarest | 1939-03-17 |
Movie | Unmarried | Cash Enright | 1939-05-20 |
Movie | Hotel for Women | McNeil | 1939-08-03 |
Movie | The Monroe Doctrine | Theodore Roosevelt | 1939-10-14 |
Movie | Law of the Pampas | Ralph Merritt | 1939-11-03 |
Movie | Straight, Place and Show | 'Lucky' Braddock | 1938-09-30 |
Movie | In Old Chicago | General Phil Sheridan | 1938-04-15 |
Movie | Speed to Burn | Hastings | 1938-06-07 |
Movie | Down on the Farm | Political Boss | 1938-10-11 |
Movie | Suez | Marquis Du Brey | 1938-10-28 |
Movie | Trade Winds | Thomas Bruhme II | 1938-12-28 |
Movie | While New York Sleeps | Ralph Simmons | 1938-12-16 |
Movie | Sharpshooters | Baron Orloff | 1938-11-18 |
Movie | Shadows of the Orient | King Moss | 1937-08-18 |
Movie | This Is My Affair | President Theodore Roosevelt | 1937-05-28 |
Movie | The Women Men Marry | Walter Wiley | 1937-09-10 |
Movie | A Doctor's Diary | Dr. Anson Ludlow | 1937-02-16 |
Movie | John Meade's Woman | Rodney | 1937-02-26 |
Movie | Girl Overboard | Alex LeMaire | 1937-02-01 |
Movie | Wife, Doctor and Nurse | Dr. Gordon Therberg | 1937-09-17 |
Movie | Thank You, Mr. Moto | Herr Eric Koeger | 1937-12-24 |
Movie | Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo | Victor Karnoff | 1937-12-17 |
Movie | The Last Gangster | San Francisco Editor | 1937-11-12 |
Movie | Heidi | Sesemann | 1937-10-15 |
Movie | Woman Trap | Riley Ferguson | 1936-03-06 |
Movie | Heart of the West | Big John Trumbull | 1936-02-24 |
Movie | Florida Special | Jack Macklyn | 1936-04-21 |
Movie | Missing Girls | Dan Collins | 1936-09-10 |
Movie | Early to Bed | Rex Daniels | 1936-06-05 |
Movie | The President's Mystery | George Sartos | 1936-09-28 |
Movie | The House of Secrets | Tom Starr | 1936-10-28 |
Movie | Smart Girl | Harry Courtland | 1935-07-16 |
Movie | Great God Gold | John Hart | 1935-04-14 |
Movie | Behind the Green Lights | Raymond Cortell | 1935-03-11 |
Movie | Streamline Express | Gilbert Landon | 1935-09-15 |
Movie | The Little Colonel | Swazey | 1935-02-22 |
Movie | The Girl Who Came Back | Bill Rhodes | 1935-09-20 |
Movie | Forced Landing | Tony Bernardi | 1935-12-02 |
Movie | The Fire-Trap | Cedric McIntyre | 1935-11-26 |
Movie | False Pretenses | Kenneth Alden | 1935-10-21 |
Movie | This Man Is Mine | Mort Holmes | 1934-04-13 |
Movie | Down to Their Last Yacht | Barry Forbes | 1934-08-31 |
Movie | Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round | Lee Lother | 1934-11-02 |
Movie | The Count of Monte Cristo | Mondego | 1934-09-06 |
Movie | The President Vanishes | D.L. Voorman | 1934-11-17 |
Movie | Cocktail Hour | William Lawton | 1933-06-05 |
Movie | From Hell to Heaven | Cliff Billings | 1933-02-24 |
Movie | The Wrecker | Tom Cummings | 1933-07-10 |
Movie | Deluge | Martin Webster | 1933-08-17 |
Movie | Good-bye Love | Chester Hamilton | 1933-11-09 |
Movie | Woman Hungry | Geoffrey Brand | 1931-04-04 |
Movie | Little Caesar | Big Boy | 1931-01-25 |
Movie | It's a Wise Child | Steve | 1931-04-10 |
Movie | The Lady Who Dared | Charles Townsend | 1931-05-29 |
Movie | An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee | Self | 1930-08-01 |
Movie | Sweethearts and Wives | Anthony Peel | 1930-06-15 |
Movie | Kismet | Wazir Mansur | 1930-10-30 |
Movie | The Bad Man | Morgan Pell | 1930-09-11 |
Movie | Mothers Cry | Mr. Gerald Hart | 1930-12-04 |
Movie | A Most Immoral Lady | Humphrey Sergeant | 1929-09-22 |