Sidney Blackmer
Acting
- Born:
- 1895-07-12
- Died:
- 1973-10-06
- Place of birth:
- Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
Do You Take This Stranger?
Revenge Is My Destiny
The Name of the Game
Rosemary's Baby
A Covenant with Death
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Joy in the Morning
How to Murder Your Wife
Profiles in Courage
Daniel Boone
The Outer Limits
Stampede at Bitter Creek
Ben Casey
Target: The Corruptors!
Dr. Kildare
Cain's Hundred
Thriller
What Makes Sammy Run?
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
The Rifleman
The Texan
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Strange Witness
Tammy and the Bachelor
Accused of Murder
The Little Foxes
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
High Society
The View from Pompey's Head
Matinee Theater
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Star and the Story
Climax!
The High and the Mighty
Johnny Dark
General Electric Theater
The Ford Television Theatre
Washington Story
The San Francisco Story
Hallmark Hall of Fame
People Will Talk
Tales of Tomorrow
Saturday's Hero
Farewell to Yesterday
Armstrong Circle Theatre
Robert Montgomery Presents
Lights Out
Suspense
A Song Is Born
The Philco Television Playhouse
The Ed Sullivan Show
My Girl Tisa
Duel in the Sun
Wilson
The Lady and the Monster
Buffalo Bill
Broadway Rhythm
In Old Oklahoma
I Escaped from the Gestapo
Murder in Times Square
Quiet Please, Murder
Sabotage Squad
March On, America!
Gallant Lady
Obliging Young Lady
Always in My Heart
The Panther's Claw
Nazi Agent
Down Mexico Way
The Officer and the Lady
The Feminine Touch
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
Angels with Broken Wings
Love Crazy
Rookies on Parade
The Great Swindle
Murder Among Friends
Cheers for Miss Bishop
Third Finger, Left Hand
I Want a Divorce
Dance, Girl, Dance
Maryland
Framed
Teddy the Rough Rider
Law of the Pampas
The Monroe Doctrine
Hotel for Women
Land of Liberty
Trapped in the Sky
Unmarried
It's a Wonderful World
Within the Law
Fast and Loose
Convict's Code
Trade Winds
While New York Sleeps
Sharpshooters
Suez
Down on the Farm
Straight, Place and Show
Speed to Burn
In Old Chicago
Thank You, Mr. Moto
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
The Last Gangster
Heidi
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
The Women Men Marry
This Is My Affair
Michael O'Halloran
John Meade's Woman
A Doctor's Diary
Girl Overboard
The House of Secrets
The President's Mystery
Missing Girls
Early to Bed
Florida Special
Woman Trap
Heart of the West
Forced Landing
The Fire-Trap
False Pretenses
The Girl Who Came Back
Streamline Express
Smart Girl
Shadows of the Orient
Great God Gold
Behind the Green Lights
The Little Colonel
A Notorious Gentleman
The President Vanishes
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
The Count of Monte Cristo
Down to Their Last Yacht
This Man Is Mine
Good-bye Love
Deluge
The Wrecker
Cocktail Hour
From Hell to Heaven
The Lady Who Dared
It's a Wise Child
Woman Hungry
Little Caesar
Mothers Cry
Kismet
The Bad Man
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Sweethearts and Wives
Strictly Modern
The Love Racket
A Most Immoral Lady
Beating Back