Sidney Blackmer

Acting · 0.9 popularity

Age

131

Movies

126

Born: July 12, 1895 – October 6, 1973
From: Salisbury, North Carolina, USA

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sidney Blackmer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

126 films

Rosemary's Baby

19687.8

High Society

19566.8

Tammy and the Bachelor

19577.0

The High and the Mighty

19545.9

How to Murder Your Wife

19656.3

Duel in the Sun

19466.4

It's a Wonderful World

19396.6

Little Caesar

19316.9

Good-bye Love

19336.3

Missing Girls

19366.3

Dance, Girl, Dance

19406.4

In Old Chicago

19386.7

Heidi

19376.9

In Old Oklahoma

19436.2

The Count of Monte Cristo

19346.8

A Song Is Born

19486.4

The Little Colonel

19356.6

Gallant Lady

19426.5

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

19566.9

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo

19376.3

It's a Wise Child

19316.3

Down Mexico Way

194110.0

Woman Trap

19368.0

The Last Gangster

19376.4

Nazi Agent

19426.6

Love Crazy

19416.8

People Will Talk

19517.1

Obliging Young Lady

19426.0

Girl Overboard

19379.0

Buffalo Bill

19445.8

Third Finger, Left Hand

19407.0

The View from Pompey's Head

19553.8

Do You Take This Stranger?

19716.0

A Covenant with Death

19674.8

Wilson

19445.6

Land of Liberty

19399.0

Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round

19344.6

I Want a Divorce

194010.0

Suez

19385.5

False Pretenses

19357.3

The San Francisco Story

19524.9

Maryland

19406.5

Streamline Express

19356.0

Teddy the Rough Rider

19406.8

Unmarried

19394.8

Michael O'Halloran

19379.0

Always in My Heart

19426.3

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

19415.8

Trade Winds

19386.4

Within the Law

19396.5

Farewell to Yesterday

19509.0

Florida Special

19367.0

My Girl Tisa

19489.0

Straight, Place and Show

19387.0

Fast and Loose

19395.9

Thank You, Mr. Moto

19376.2

Heart of the West

19365.3

Early to Bed

19368.0

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

19304.5

Cocktail Hour

19335.3

Down on the Farm

193810.0

Speed to Burn

19387.5

The House of Secrets

19365.5

The President Vanishes

19346.0

This Man Is Mine

19345.9

Quiet Please, Murder

19437.0

Joy in the Morning

19654.3

The Lady Who Dared

19317.0

Cheers for Miss Bishop

19415.8

The Bad Man

19309.0

Sabotage Squad

19427.5

Convict's Code

19395.3

The Lady and the Monster

19446.0

Murder Among Friends

19417.0

Murder in Times Square

19434.7

I Escaped from the Gestapo

19436.0

Johnny Dark

19545.8

The Wrecker

19333.7

Saturday's Hero

19516.3

Smart Girl

19357.0

The Women Men Marry

19376.3

Deluge

19336.0

Rookies on Parade

194110.0

Accused of Murder

19564.8

Washington Story

19527.0

This Is My Affair

19377.3

The Love Racket

19298.0

Law of the Pampas

19395.0

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

19377.0

The Monroe Doctrine

19397.0

Mothers Cry

19306.0

Stampede at Bitter Creek

1962

Angels with Broken Wings

19415.3

The President's Mystery

19365.8

The Great Swindle

19418.0

Hotel for Women

19397.5

Shadows of the Orient

19356.0

The Feminine Touch

19415.1

Broadway Rhythm

19446.3

Kismet

19304.0

Trapped in the Sky

19398.0

While New York Sleeps

19387.0

Forced Landing

19358.0

What Makes Sammy Run?

19597.0

Sharpshooters

19388.0

Sweethearts and Wives

193010.0

The Officer and the Lady

19418.0

Behind the Green Lights

19358.0

From Hell to Heaven

19337.8

A Notorious Gentleman

19356.5

Down to Their Last Yacht

19346.5

The Girl Who Came Back

19356.0

John Meade's Woman

19377.0

The Panther's Claw

19426.5

March On, America!

19425.5

Framed

19406.2

A Doctor's Diary

19379.0

Woman Hungry

193110.0

Revenge Is My Destiny

19715.7

Strictly Modern

19307.0

The Little Foxes

1956

Beating Back

1914

Great God Gold

19355.5

Strange Witness

1958

The Fire-Trap

19354.7

A Most Immoral Lady

19293.3