Sidney Blackmer
Acting
🎂 1895-07-12
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.
Cast credits(161)
1950
Vardis Ward
1950
Julian Prescott
1950
1955
1958
Self
1948
Dr. Carleton Lantzinge
1961
Dr. Andrew Bennett
1961
1951
1961
1958
Judge Cooper
1958
Roman Stepanak
1968
Clarence Dunhill
1968
Edward Stapleton
1960
Judge Hanavan
1956
1958
William Lyons Selby
1963
Jasper Ledbedder
1964
Marvin Platt
1948
1948
1961
Dr. Steven Archer
1949
1949
Prrof. Watson
1954
Frank Bellason
1954
Oscar W. Underwood
1964
Joseph Callan
1961
1956
1966
1955
Frank Partridge
1955
Otis Jones
1955
1951
Ben
1951
1949
Roman Castevet
1968
Christopher
1953
Dr. Gordon Therberg
1937
Col. Oates
1967
Arthur Higgins
1951
Seth Lord
1956
John Stevens
1941
Hughie Wheeler
1940
Ralph Merritt
1939
Judge Blackstone
1965
The Lover
1946
Al Mallon
1939
Mondego
1934
Adams
1948
Humphrey Agnew
1954
Sesemann
1937
Big Boy
1931
Theodore Roosevelt
1948
"Lucky" Nolan
1939
Puss in Boots
1940
General Phil Sheridan
1938
Josephus Daniels
1944
Professor Brent
1957
Arnold Milbar
1942
Teddy Roosevelt
1943
Steve
1931
Anthony Rhodes
1941
Tom Starr
1936
Austin Spencer
1956
Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
1942
Martin Webster
1933
Martin Cleaver
1943
Dean James Darwent
1965
Lawyer George Renny
1941
Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
1944
Ellery Gibson
1941
Marquis Du Brey
1938
San Francisco Editor
1937
Swazey
1935
Harry Courtland
1935
Jack Macklyn
1936
Victor Karnoff
1937
Hastings
1938
Tony Bernardi
1935
Freddie Bond
1941
Thomas Bruhme II
1938
Eugene Fulton
1944
Herr Eric Koeger
1937
Andrew Cain
1952
Baron Orloff
1938
Bill Rhodes
1935
George Nevins
1943
John Hart
1935
President Theodore Roosevelt
1937
Barry Forbes
1934
Press Agent
1944
'Lucky' Braddock
1938
Henry - George's Attorney
1942
G.R. Jarvis
1971
Ralph Simmons
1938
James Fielding
1954
Lawton
1933
Gilbert Landon
1935
Cash Enright
1939
Theodore Roosevelt
1940
1935
Mr. Gerald Hart
1930
George Sartos
1936
Rodney
1937
Gregory Mann
1971
Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
1939
Guy Barton
1941
Garvin Wales
1955
Philip Ames
1942
Spencer Danfield
1940
George Demarest
1939
Augustus Moody
1941
Tony Bowman
1940
Theodore Roosevelt
1939
Tom Cummings
1933
Walter Wiley
1937
Dan Collins
1936
Mann
1939
Geoffrey Brand
1931
Self
1930
Rex Daniels
1936
Kenneth Alden
1935
Gregory Warren
1939
Anthony Peel
1930
Wazir Mansur
1930
McNeil
1939
Political Boss
1938
Christopher
1958
Dave Lennox
1941
Mr. Wheeler
1941
Blake Standish
1941
Riley Ferguson
1936
Big John Trumbull
1936
Bergen
1943
Frank Hobart
1956
Morgan Pell
1930
Lee Lother
1934
King Moss
1935
H.L. Harrington
1959
Mort Holmes
1934
Cliff Billings
1933
1914
Philip Emery
1952
Steve Carey
1942
Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)
1942
Dr. Anson Ludlow
1937
T.C. McCabe
1951
Jim Mintum
1937
Erskine Brandon
1940
D.L. Voorman
1934
Humphrey Sergeant
1929
Carlyle Harrison
1942
Chester Hamilton
1933
Heath Desmond
1930
Ben
1956
Charles Townsend
1931
Alex LeMaire
1937
Raymond Cortell
1935
1929
Cedric McIntyre
1935