Sidney Blackmer
Born: 1895-07-12 in Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
Died: 1973-10-06
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1971
- Do You Take This Stranger? as G.R. Jarvis
- Revenge Is My Destiny as Gregory Mann
1968
- The Name of the Game as Roman Stepanak
- Rosemary's Baby as Roman Castevet
1967
- A Covenant with Death as Col. Oates
1966
- The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. as Professor Antrum
1965
- How to Murder Your Wife as Judge Blackstone
- Joy in the Morning as Dean James Darwent
1964
- Daniel Boone as Jasper Ledbedder
- Profiles in Courage as Oscar W. Underwood
1963
- The Outer Limits as William Lyons Selby
1962
- Stampede at Bitter Creek as Sam Underwood
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Dr. Carleton Lantzinge
- Ben Casey
- Cain's Hundred as Joseph Callan
- Target: The Corruptors!
1960
- Thriller as Edward Stapleton
1959
- What Makes Sammy Run? as H.L. Harrington
1958
- The Rifleman
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Judge Cooper
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as Woodson
- The Texan
- Strange Witness as Christopher
1957
- Tammy and the Bachelor as Professor Brent
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Judge Hanavan
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie
- High Society as Seth Lord
- Beyond a Reasonable Doubt as Austin Spencer
- Accused of Murder as Frank Hobart
- The Little Foxes as Ben
1955
- Matinee Theater
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Frank Partridge
- The Star and the Story
- The View from Pompey's Head as Garvin Wales
1954
- Climax! as Prrof. Watson
- The High and the Mighty as Humphrey Agnew
- Johnny Dark as James Fielding
1953
- General Electric Theater as Christopher
1952
- The Ford Television Theatre as Wade Anthony
- The San Francisco Story as Andrew Cain
- Washington Story as Philip Emery
1951
- Tales of Tomorrow
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
- People Will Talk as Arthur Higgins
- Saturday's Hero as T.C. McCabe
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents
- Armstrong Circle Theatre
- Farewell to Yesterday as Self - Narrator(voice)
1949
- Lights Out
- Suspense as Dr. Steven Archer
1948
- The Philco Television Playhouse as Marvin Platt
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- A Song Is Born as Adams
- My Girl Tisa as Theodore Roosevelt
1946
- Duel in the Sun as The Lover
1944
- Wilson as Josephus Daniels
- Buffalo Bill as Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
- Broadway Rhythm as Press Agent
- The Lady and the Monster as Eugene Fulton
1943
- In Old Oklahoma as Teddy Roosevelt
- Quiet Please, Murder as Martin Cleaver
- I Escaped from the Gestapo as Bergen
- Murder in Times Square as George Nevins
1942
- Gallant Lady as Steve Carey
- Nazi Agent as Arnold Milbar
- Obliging Young Lady as Henry - George's Attorney
- Always in My Heart as Philip Ames
- March On, America! as Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Panther's Claw as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
- Sabotage Squad as Carlyle Harrison
1941
- Love Crazy as Lawyer George Renny
- Down Mexico Way as Ellery Gibson
- Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime as Anthony Rhodes
- Cheers for Miss Bishop as John Stevens
- The Feminine Touch as Freddie Bond
- The Great Swindle as Dave Lennox
- Rookies on Parade as Augustus Moody
- The Officer and the Lady as Blake Standish
- Angels with Broken Wings as Guy Barton
- Murder Among Friends as Mr. Wheeler
1940
- Dance, Girl, Dance as Puss in Boots
- Teddy the Rough Rider as Theodore Roosevelt
- Third Finger, Left Hand as Hughie Wheeler
- Framed as Tony Bowman
- I Want a Divorce as Erskine Brandon
- Maryland as Spencer Danfield
1939
- It's a Wonderful World as Al Mallon
- Land of Liberty as Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
- Unmarried as Cash Enright
- Within the Law as George Demarest
- Fast and Loose as "Lucky" Nolan
- Trapped in the Sky as Mann
- The Monroe Doctrine as Theodore Roosevelt
- Hotel for Women as McNeil
- Law of the Pampas as Ralph Merritt
- Convict's Code as Gregory Warren
1938
- In Old Chicago as General Phil Sheridan
- Suez as Marquis Du Brey
- Down on the Farm as Political Boss
- Trade Winds as Thomas Bruhme II
- While New York Sleeps as Ralph Simmons
- Sharpshooters as Baron Orloff
- Straight, Place and Show as 'Lucky' Braddock
- Speed to Burn as Hastings
1937
- Heidi as Sesemann
- The Last Gangster as San Francisco Editor
- Thank You, Mr. Moto as Herr Eric Koeger
- This Is My Affair as President Theodore Roosevelt
- Michael O'Halloran as Jim Mintum
- Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo as Victor Karnoff
- Girl Overboard as Alex LeMaire
- John Meade's Woman as Rodney
- The Women Men Marry as Walter Wiley
- Wife, Doctor and Nurse as Dr. Gordon Therberg
- A Doctor's Diary as Dr. Anson Ludlow
1936
- Missing Girls as Dan Collins
- Woman Trap as Riley Ferguson
- Heart of the West as Big John Trumbull
- Florida Special as Jack Macklyn
- Early to Bed as Rex Daniels
- The House of Secrets as Tom Starr
- The President's Mystery as George Sartos
1935
- The Little Colonel as Swazey
- False Pretenses as Kenneth Alden
- Smart Girl as Harry Courtland
- A Notorious Gentleman as Clayton Bradford
- Streamline Express as Gilbert Landon
- Forced Landing as Tony Bernardi
- The Girl Who Came Back as Bill Rhodes
- Behind the Green Lights as Raymond Cortell
- Shadows of the Orient as King Moss
- Great God Gold as John Hart
- The Fire-Trap as Cedric McIntyre
1934
- The Count of Monte Cristo as Mondego
- The President Vanishes as D.L. Voorman
- Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round as Lee Lother
- Down to Their Last Yacht as Barry Forbes
- This Man Is Mine as Mort Holmes
1933
- Good-bye Love as Chester Hamilton
- The Wrecker as Tom Cummings
- Deluge as Martin Webster
- Cocktail Hour as Lawton
- From Hell to Heaven as Cliff Billings
1931
- Little Caesar as Big Boy
- It's a Wise Child as Steve
- Woman Hungry as Geoffrey Brand
- The Lady Who Dared as Charles Townsend
1930
- Strictly Modern as Heath Desmond
- The Bad Man as Morgan Pell
- Kismet as Wazir Mansur
- Mothers Cry as Mr. Gerald Hart
- An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee as Self
- Sweethearts and Wives as Anthony Peel
1929
- The Love Racket
- A Most Immoral Lady as Humphrey Sergeant