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
- Target: The Corruptors!
- Cain's Hundred as Joseph Callan
1960
- Thriller as Edward Stapleton
1959
- What Makes Sammy Run? as H.L. Harrington
1958
- The Rifleman
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Judge Cooper
- The Texan
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as Woodson
- 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
- Suspense as Dr. Steven Archer
- Lights Out
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
- The Lady and the Monster as Eugene Fulton
- Buffalo Bill as Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
- Wilson as Josephus Daniels
- Broadway Rhythm as Press Agent
1943
- In Old Oklahoma as Teddy Roosevelt
- Murder in Times Square as George Nevins
- I Escaped from the Gestapo as Bergen
- Quiet Please, Murder as Martin Cleaver
1942
- Always in My Heart as Philip Ames
- Gallant Lady as Steve Carey
- Obliging Young Lady as Henry - George's Attorney
- The Panther's Claw as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
- Nazi Agent as Arnold Milbar
- Sabotage Squad as Carlyle Harrison
- March On, America! as Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)
1941
- Love Crazy as Lawyer George Renny
- Cheers for Miss Bishop as John Stevens
- The Officer and the Lady as Blake Standish
- Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime as Anthony Rhodes
- Angels with Broken Wings as Guy Barton
- The Feminine Touch as Freddie Bond
- Down Mexico Way as Ellery Gibson
- Rookies on Parade as Augustus Moody
- The Great Swindle as Dave Lennox
- Murder Among Friends as Mr. Wheeler
1940
- Dance, Girl, Dance as Puss in Boots
- Third Finger, Left Hand as Hughie Wheeler
- I Want a Divorce as Erskine Brandon
- Teddy the Rough Rider as Theodore Roosevelt
- Maryland as Spencer Danfield
- Framed as Tony Bowman
1939
- It's a Wonderful World as Al Mallon
- Unmarried as Cash Enright
- Law of the Pampas as Ralph Merritt
- Trapped in the Sky as Mann
- Land of Liberty as Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
- Fast and Loose as "Lucky" Nolan
- Convict's Code as Gregory Warren
- Within the Law as George Demarest
- The Monroe Doctrine as Theodore Roosevelt
- Hotel for Women as McNeil
1938
- In Old Chicago as General Phil Sheridan
- Down on the Farm as Political Boss
- Straight, Place and Show as 'Lucky' Braddock
- While New York Sleeps as Ralph Simmons
- Suez as Marquis Du Brey
- Trade Winds as Thomas Bruhme II
- Speed to Burn as Hastings
- Sharpshooters as Baron Orloff
1937
- Heidi as Sesemann
- A Doctor's Diary as Dr. Anson Ludlow
- This Is My Affair as President Theodore Roosevelt
- Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo as Victor Karnoff
- Thank You, Mr. Moto as Herr Eric Koeger
- The Women Men Marry as Walter Wiley
- The Last Gangster as San Francisco Editor
- Wife, Doctor and Nurse as Dr. Gordon Therberg
- John Meade's Woman as Rodney
- Girl Overboard as Alex LeMaire
- Michael O'Halloran as Jim Mintum
1936
- Woman Trap as Riley Ferguson
- Heart of the West as Big John Trumbull
- The President's Mystery as George Sartos
- The House of Secrets as Tom Starr
- Missing Girls as Dan Collins
- Early to Bed as Rex Daniels
- Florida Special as Jack Macklyn
1935
- The Little Colonel as Swazey
- The Girl Who Came Back as Bill Rhodes
- Shadows of the Orient as King Moss
- False Pretenses as Kenneth Alden
- Behind the Green Lights as Raymond Cortell
- Forced Landing as Tony Bernardi
- Smart Girl as Harry Courtland
- A Notorious Gentleman as Clayton Bradford
- Great God Gold as John Hart
- Streamline Express as Gilbert Landon
- The Fire-Trap as Cedric McIntyre
1934
- The Count of Monte Cristo as Mondego
- Down to Their Last Yacht as Barry Forbes
- This Man Is Mine as Mort Holmes
- Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round as Lee Lother
- The President Vanishes as D.L. Voorman
1933
- From Hell to Heaven as Cliff Billings
- Good-bye Love as Chester Hamilton
- Deluge as Martin Webster
- Cocktail Hour as Lawton
- The Wrecker as Tom Cummings
1931
- Little Caesar as Big Boy
- It's a Wise Child as Steve
- The Lady Who Dared as Charles Townsend
- Woman Hungry as Geoffrey Brand
1930
- An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee as Self
- Sweethearts and Wives as Anthony Peel
- Kismet as Wazir Mansur
- The Bad Man as Morgan Pell
- Mothers Cry as Mr. Gerald Hart
- Strictly Modern as Heath Desmond
1929
- A Most Immoral Lady as Humphrey Sergeant
- The Love Racket