Sidney Blackmer
Age: N/A | From: Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Sydney Blackmer , S.A. Blackmer , Sidney Alderman Blackmer
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 89
TV Involvements: 20
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Climax!
(1954) Frank Bellason
Robert Montgomery Presents
(1950) Julian Prescott
The Philco Television Playhouse
(1948) Marvin Platt
Suspense
(1949) Dr. Steven Archer
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
(1956) Judge Hanavan
Daniel Boone
(1964) Jasper Ledbedder
The Name of the Game
(1968) Clarence Dunhill
Wanted: Dead or Alive
(1958) Judge CooperActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Roman Castevet (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 1971 | G.R. Jarvis | |
| Gregory Mann | ||
| 1968 | Roman Stepanak | |
| Clarence Dunhill | ||
| Roman Castevet | ||
| 1967 | Col. Oates | |
| 1966 | N/A | |
| 1965 | Dean James Darwent | |
| Judge Blackstone | ||
| 1964 | Oscar W. Underwood | |
| Jasper Ledbedder | ||
| 1963 | William Lyons Selby | |
| 1961 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Dr. Carleton Lantzinge | ||
| Dr. Andrew Bennett | ||
| Joseph Callan | ||
| 1960 | Edward Stapleton | |
| 1959 | H.L. Harrington | |
| 1958 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Judge Cooper | ||
| 1957 | Professor Brent | |
| 1956 | Frank Hobart | |
| Ben | ||
| Judge Hanavan | ||
| Austin Spencer | ||
| N/A | ||
| Seth Lord | ||
| 1955 | Garvin Wales | |
| N/A | ||
| Frank Partridge | ||
| Otis Jones | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1954 | Prrof. Watson | |
| Frank Bellason | ||
| Humphrey Agnew | ||
| James Fielding | ||
| 1953 | Christopher | |
| 1952 | Philip Emery | |
| Andrew Cain | ||
| 1951 | N/A | |
| Ben | ||
| Arthur Higgins | ||
| N/A | ||
| T.C. McCabe | ||
| 1950 | N/A | |
| Vardis Ward | ||
| Julian Prescott | ||
| 1949 | Dr. Steven Archer | |
| N/A | ||
| 1948 | Adams | |
| Marvin Platt | ||
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| Theodore Roosevelt | ||
| 1946 | The Lover | |
| N/A | ||
| 1944 | Josephus Daniels | |
| Eugene Fulton | ||
| Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited) | ||
| Press Agent | ||
| 1943 | Teddy Roosevelt | |
| Bergen | ||
| George Nevins | ||
| Martin Cleaver | ||
| 1942 | Carlyle Harrison | |
| Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited) | ||
| Steve Carey | ||
| Henry - George's Attorney | ||
| Philip Ames | ||
| Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt | ||
| Arnold Milbar | ||
| 1941 | Ellery Gibson | |
| Blake Standish | ||
| Freddie Bond | ||
| Anthony Rhodes | ||
| Guy Barton | ||
| Lawyer George Renny | ||
| Augustus Moody | ||
| Dave Lennox | ||
| Mr. Wheeler | ||
| John Stevens | ||
| 1940 | Hughie Wheeler | |
| Erskine Brandon | ||
| Puss in Boots | ||
| Spencer Danfield | ||
| Tony Bowman | ||
| Theodore Roosevelt | ||
| 1939 | Ralph Merritt | |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ||
| McNeil | ||
| Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider') | ||
| Mann | ||
| Cash Enright | ||
| Al Mallon | ||
| George Demarest | ||
| 'Lucky' Nolan | ||
| Gregory Warren | ||
| 1938 | Thomas Bruhme II | |
| Ralph Simmons | ||
| Baron Orloff | ||
| Marquis Du Brey | ||
| Political Boss | ||
| 'Lucky' Braddock | ||
| Hastings | ||
| General Phil Sheridan | ||
| 1937 | Herr Eric Koeger | |
| Victor Karnoff | ||
| San Francisco Editor | ||
| Sesemann | ||
| Dr. Gordon Therberg | ||
| Walter Wiley | ||
| King Moss | ||
| President Theodore Roosevelt | ||
| Jim Mintum | ||
| Rodney | ||
| Dr. Anson Ludlow | ||
| Alex LeMaire | ||
| 1936 | Tom Starr | |
| George Sartos | ||
| Dan Collins | ||
| Rex Daniels | ||
| Jack Macklyn | ||
| Riley Ferguson | ||
| Big John Trumbull | ||
| 1935 | Tony Bernardi | |
| Cedric McIntyre | ||
| Kenneth Alden | ||
| Bill Rhodes | ||
| Gilbert Landon | ||
| Harry Courtland | ||
| John Hart | ||
| Raymond Cortell | ||
| Swazey | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1934 | D.L. Voorman | |
| Lee Lother | ||
| Mondego | ||
| Barry Forbes | ||
| Mort Holmes | ||
| 1933 | Chester Hamilton | |
| Martin Webster | ||
| Tom Cummings | ||
| William Lawton | ||
| Cliff Billings | ||
| 1931 | Charles Townsend | |
| Steve | ||
| Geoffrey Brand | ||
| Big Boy | ||
| 1930 | Mr. Gerald Hart | |
| Wazir Mansur | ||
| Morgan Pell | ||
| Self | ||
| Anthony Peel | ||
| 1929 | N/A | |
| Humphrey Sergeant | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
