Sidney Blackmer
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 12, 1895
- Died
- October 6, 1973
- Birthplace
- Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
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.
Filmography
Do You Take This Stranger? 1971
as G.R. Jarvis
- Revenge Is My Destiny
Revenge Is My Destiny 1971
as Gregory Mann
Rosemary's Baby 1968
as Roman Castevet
A Covenant with Death 1967
as Col. Oates
Joy in the Morning 1965
as Dean James Darwent
How to Murder Your Wife 1965
as Judge Blackstone
Stampede at Bitter Creek 1962
as Sam Underwood
What Makes Sammy Run? 1959
as H.L. Harrington
Strange Witness 1958
as Christopher
Tammy and the Bachelor 1957
as Professor Brent
Accused of Murder 1956
as Frank Hobart
The Little Foxes 1956
as Ben
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 1956
as Austin Spencer
High Society 1956
as Seth Lord
The View from Pompey's Head 1955
as Garvin Wales
The High and the Mighty 1954
as Humphrey Agnew
Johnny Dark 1954
as James Fielding
Washington Story 1952
as Philip Emery
The San Francisco Story 1952
as Andrew Cain
People Will Talk 1951
as Arthur Higgins
Saturday's Hero 1951
as T.C. McCabe
Farewell to Yesterday 1950
as Self - Narrator(voice)
A Song Is Born 1948
as Adams
My Girl Tisa 1948
as Theodore Roosevelt
Duel in the Sun 1946
as The Lover
Wilson 1944
as Josephus Daniels
The Lady and the Monster 1944
as Eugene Fulton
Buffalo Bill 1944
as Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
Broadway Rhythm 1944
as Press Agent
In Old Oklahoma 1943
as Teddy Roosevelt
I Escaped from the Gestapo 1943
as Bergen
Murder in Times Square 1943
as George Nevins
Quiet Please, Murder 1943
as Martin Cleaver
Sabotage Squad 1942
as Carlyle Harrison
March On, America! 1942
as Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gallant Lady 1942
as Steve Carey
Obliging Young Lady 1942
as Henry - George's Attorney
Always in My Heart 1942
as Philip Ames
The Panther's Claw 1942
as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
Nazi Agent 1942
as Arnold Milbar
Down Mexico Way 1941
as Ellery Gibson
The Officer and the Lady 1941
as Blake Standish
The Feminine Touch 1941
as Freddie Bond
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime 1941
as Anthony Rhodes
Angels with Broken Wings 1941
as Guy Barton
Love Crazy 1941
as Lawyer George Renny
Rookies on Parade 1941
as Augustus Moody
The Great Swindle 1941
as Dave Lennox
Murder Among Friends 1941
as Mr. Wheeler
Cheers for Miss Bishop 1941
as John Stevens
Third Finger, Left Hand 1940
as Hughie Wheeler
I Want a Divorce 1940
as Erskine Brandon
Dance, Girl, Dance 1940
as Puss in Boots
Maryland 1940
as Spencer Danfield
Framed 1940
as Tony Bowman
Teddy the Rough Rider 1940
as Theodore Roosevelt
Law of the Pampas 1939
as Ralph Merritt
The Monroe Doctrine 1939
as Theodore Roosevelt
Hotel for Women 1939
as McNeil
Land of Liberty 1939
as Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
Trapped in the Sky 1939
as Mann
Unmarried 1939
as Cash Enright
It's a Wonderful World 1939
as Al Mallon
Within the Law 1939
as George Demarest
Fast and Loose 1939
as "Lucky" Nolan
Convict's Code 1939
as Gregory Warren
Trade Winds 1938
as Thomas Bruhme II
While New York Sleeps 1938
as Ralph Simmons
Sharpshooters 1938
as Baron Orloff
Suez 1938
as Marquis Du Brey
Down on the Farm 1938
as Political Boss
Straight, Place and Show 1938
as 'Lucky' Braddock
Speed to Burn 1938
as Hastings
In Old Chicago 1938
as General Phil Sheridan
Thank You, Mr. Moto 1937
as Herr Eric Koeger
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo 1937
as Victor Karnoff
The Last Gangster 1937
as San Francisco Editor
Heidi 1937
as Sesemann
Wife, Doctor and Nurse 1937
as Dr. Gordon Therberg
The Women Men Marry 1937
as Walter Wiley
This Is My Affair 1937
as President Theodore Roosevelt
Michael O'Halloran 1937
as Jim Mintum
John Meade's Woman 1937
as Rodney Bentley
A Doctor's Diary 1937
as Dr. Anson Ludlow
Girl Overboard 1937
as Alex LeMaire
The House of Secrets 1936
as Tom Starr
The President's Mystery 1936
as George Sartos
Missing Girls 1936
as Dan Collins
Early to Bed 1936
as Rex Daniels
Florida Special 1936
as Jack Macklyn
Woman Trap 1936
as Riley Ferguson
Heart of the West 1936
as Big John Trumbull
Forced Landing 1935
as Tony Bernardi
- The Fire-Trap
The Fire-Trap 1935
as Cedric McIntyre
False Pretenses 1935
as Kenneth Alden
The Girl Who Came Back 1935
as Bill Rhodes
Streamline Express 1935
as Gilbert Landon
Smart Girl 1935
as Harry Courtland
Shadows of the Orient 1935
as King Moss
Great God Gold 1935
as John Hart
Behind the Green Lights 1935
as Raymond Cortell
The Little Colonel 1935
as Swazey
A Notorious Gentleman 1935
as Clayton Bradford
The President Vanishes 1934
as D.L. Voorman
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round 1934
as Lee Lother
The Count of Monte Cristo 1934
as Mondego
Down to Their Last Yacht 1934
as Barry Forbes
This Man Is Mine 1934
as Mort Holmes
Good-bye Love 1933
as Chester Hamilton
Deluge 1933
as Martin Webster
The Wrecker 1933
as Tom Cummings
Cocktail Hour 1933
as Lawton
From Hell to Heaven 1933
as Cliff Billings
The Lady Who Dared 1931
as Charles Townsend
It's a Wise Child 1931
as Steve
Woman Hungry 1931
as Geoffrey Brand
Little Caesar 1931
as Big Boy
Mothers Cry 1930
as Mr. Gerald Hart
Kismet 1930
as Wazir Mansur
The Bad Man 1930
as Morgan Pell
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee 1930
as Self
- Sweethearts and Wives
Sweethearts and Wives 1930
as Anthony Peel
Strictly Modern 1930
as Heath Desmond
The Love Racket 1929
Actor
A Most Immoral Lady 1929
as Humphrey Sergeant
- Beating Back
Beating Back 1914
Actor
Credits from TMDB.