Sidney Blackmer
Known for Acting · 156 credits
- Born
- 1895-07-12
- Died
- 1973-10-06
- Place of birth
- Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
- Also known as
- Sydney Blackmer · S.A. Blackmer · Sidney Alderman Blackmer
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.
Known For
TV Shows (30)
The Rifleman
1958
as Judge Hanavan
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Vardis Ward / Julian Prescott
Climax!
1954
as Prrof. Watson / Frank Bellason
Matinee Theater
1955
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Marvin Platt
Dr. Kildare
1961
as Dr. Carleton Lantzinge / Dr. Andrew Bennett
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Judge Hanavan
Ben Casey
1961
Daniel Boone
1964
as Jasper Ledbedder
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
as Judge Cooper
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
The Name of the Game
1968
as Roman Stepanak / Clarence Dunhill
The Outer Limits
1963
as William Lyons Selby
Lights Out
1949
Thriller
1960
as Edward Stapleton
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
as Wade Anthony
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Frank Partridge / Otis Jones
The Texan
1958
Suspense
1949
as Dr. Steven Archer
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
as Woodson
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
Tales of Tomorrow
1951
Cain's Hundred
1961
as Joseph Callan
Armstrong Circle Theatre
1950
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966
as Professor Antrum
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
Profiles in Courage
1964
as Oscar W. Underwood
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Ben
General Electric Theater
1953
as Christopher
The Star and the Story
1955
Movies (126)
Rosemary's Baby
1968
as Roman Castevet
High Society
1956
as Seth Lord
Duel in the Sun
1946
as The Lover
Heidi
1937
as Sesemann
Little Caesar
1931
as Big Boy
Wilson
1944
as Josephus Daniels
The High and the Mighty
1954
as Humphrey Agnew
How to Murder Your Wife
1965
as Judge Blackstone
Buffalo Bill
1944
as Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
Framed
1940
as Tony Bowman
In Old Oklahoma
1943
as Teddy Roosevelt
Sabotage Squad
1942
as Carlyle Harrison
Maryland
1940
as Spencer Danfield
A Covenant with Death
1967
as Col. Oates
Deluge
1933
as Martin Webster
Smart Girl
1935
as Harry Courtland
Broadway Rhythm
1944
as Press Agent
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
1937
as Victor Karnoff
Thank You, Mr. Moto
1937
as Herr Eric Koeger
A Song Is Born
1948
as Adams
The Wrecker
1933
as Tom Cummings
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1956
as Austin Spencer
Joy in the Morning
1965
as Dean James Darwent
Woman Hungry
1931
as Geoffrey Brand
Suez
1938
as Marquis Du Brey
Nazi Agent
1942
as Arnold Milbar
The Count of Monte Cristo
1934
as Mondego
Love Crazy
1941
as Lawyer George Renny
People Will Talk
1951
as Arthur Higgins
Obliging Young Lady
1942
as Henry - George's Attorney
Trade Winds
1938
as Thomas Bruhme II
Fast and Loose
1939
as "Lucky" Nolan
This Man Is Mine
1934
as Mort Holmes
The View from Pompey's Head
1955
as Garvin Wales
Dance, Girl, Dance
1940
as Puss in Boots
Sharpshooters
1938
as Baron Orloff
Tammy and the Bachelor
1957
as Professor Brent
This Is My Affair
1937
as President Theodore Roosevelt
Quiet Please, Murder
1943
as Martin Cleaver
Early to Bed
1936
as Rex Daniels
Missing Girls
1936
as Dan Collins
The Last Gangster
1937
as San Francisco Editor
In Old Chicago
1938
as General Phil Sheridan
Girl Overboard
1937
as Alex LeMaire
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937
as Dr. Gordon Therberg
Kismet
1930
as Wazir Mansur
Streamline Express
1935
as Gilbert Landon
It's a Wonderful World
1939
as Al Mallon
The Little Colonel
1935
as Swazey
Third Finger, Left Hand
1940
as Hughie Wheeler
Within the Law
1939
as George Demarest
Accused of Murder
1956
as Frank Hobart
Land of Liberty
1939
as Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
Hotel for Women
1939
as McNeil
Johnny Dark
1954
as James Fielding
Down on the Farm
1938
as Political Boss
The Feminine Touch
1941
as Freddie Bond
Unmarried
1939
as Cash Enright
John Meade's Woman
1937
as Rodney
From Hell to Heaven
1933
as Cliff Billings
My Girl Tisa
1948
as Theodore Roosevelt
Strange Witness
1958
as Christopher
Cheers for Miss Bishop
1941
as John Stevens
It's a Wise Child
1931
as Steve
Convict's Code
1939
as Gregory Warren
The Bad Man
1930
as Morgan Pell
Down Mexico Way
1941
as Ellery Gibson
The San Francisco Story
1952
as Andrew Cain
Angels with Broken Wings
1941
as Guy Barton
False Pretenses
1935
as Kenneth Alden
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
1941
as Anthony Rhodes
Always in My Heart
1942
as Philip Ames
Trapped in the Sky
1939
as Mann
Gallant Lady
1942
as Steve Carey
The Panther's Claw
1942
as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
Florida Special
1936
as Jack Macklyn
Woman Trap
1936
as Riley Ferguson
Teddy the Rough Rider
1940
as Theodore Roosevelt
The Lady and the Monster
1944
as Eugene Fulton
Saturday's Hero
1951
as T.C. McCabe
Mothers Cry
1930
as Mr. Gerald Hart
Do You Take This Stranger?
1971
as G.R. Jarvis
Rookies on Parade
1941
as Augustus Moody
The Girl Who Came Back
1935
as Bill Rhodes
Good-bye Love
1933
as Chester Hamilton
While New York Sleeps
1938
as Ralph Simmons
The Monroe Doctrine
1939
as Theodore Roosevelt
The President Vanishes
1934
as D.L. Voorman
Speed to Burn
1938
as Hastings
The Little Foxes
1956
as Ben
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
1930
as Self
Cocktail Hour
1933
as Lawton
Revenge Is My Destiny
1971
as Gregory Mann
Shadows of the Orient
1935
as King Moss
The House of Secrets
1936
as Tom Starr
A Doctor's Diary
1937
as Dr. Anson Ludlow
I Want a Divorce
1940
as Erskine Brandon
Washington Story
1952
as Philip Emery
The Great Swindle
1941
as Dave Lennox
Behind the Green Lights
1935
as Raymond Cortell
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
1934
as Lee Lother
Strictly Modern
1930
as Heath Desmond
Forced Landing
1935
as Tony Bernardi
The Lady Who Dared
1931
as Charles Townsend
The Fire-Trap
1935
as Cedric McIntyre
The President's Mystery
1936
as George Sartos
Law of the Pampas
1939
as Ralph Merritt
Down to Their Last Yacht
1934
as Barry Forbes
A Notorious Gentleman
1935
as Clayton Bradford
The Love Racket
1929
I Escaped from the Gestapo
1943
as Bergen
What Makes Sammy Run?
1959
as H.L. Harrington
Michael O'Halloran
1937
as Jim Mintum
The Officer and the Lady
1941
as Blake Standish
Sweethearts and Wives
1930
as Anthony Peel
Murder Among Friends
1941
as Mr. Wheeler
The Women Men Marry
1937
as Walter Wiley
Heart of the West
1936
as Big John Trumbull
Farewell to Yesterday
1950
as Self - Narrator(voice)
Straight, Place and Show
1938
as 'Lucky' Braddock
About Sidney Blackmer
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 bi… With 156 credits spanning from 1914 to 1971, Sidney Blackmer has appeared in 126 films and 30 TV shows.
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- High Society (1956) — as Seth Lord
- Duel in the Sun (1946) — as The Lover
- Heidi (1937) — as Sesemann
- Little Caesar (1931) — as Big Boy
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