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Sidney Blackmer

Sidney Blackmer

Birthday: 1895-07-13 | Place of Birth: Salisbury, North Carolina, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1971
Revenge Is My Destiny

as    Gregory Mann

1968
Rosemary's Baby

as    Roman Castevet

1965
How to Murder Your Wife

as    Judge Blackstone

1957
Tammy and the Bachelor

as    Professor Brent

1956
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

as    Austin Spencer

1956
Accused of Murder

as    Frank Hobart

1956
High Society

as    Seth Lord

1954
The High and the Mighty

as    Humphrey Agnew

1951
People Will Talk

as    Arthur Higgins

1944
The Lady and the Monster

as    Eugene Fulton

1943
I Escaped from the Gestapo

as    Bergen

1943
Murder in Times Square

as    George Nevins

1943
Quiet Please, Murder

as    Martin Cleaver

1943
In Old Oklahoma

as    Teddy Roosevelt

1942
Nazi Agent

as    Arnold Milbar

1942
Sabotage Squad

as    Carlyle Harrison

1942
Always in My Heart

as    Philip Ames

1942
The Panther's Claw

as    Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt

1941
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

as    Anthony Rhodes

1941
Angels with Broken Wings

as    Guy Barton

1941
Love Crazy

as    Lawyer George Renny

1941
Murder Among Friends

as    Mr. Wheeler

1940
I Want a Divorce

as    Erskine Brandon

1940
Teddy the Rough Rider

as    Theodore Roosevelt

1940
Framed

as    Tony Bowman

1939
It's a Wonderful World

as    Al Mallon

1939
Unmarried

as    Cash Enright

1939
Within the Law

as    George Demarest

1939
Law of the Pampas

as    Ralph Merritt

1939
The Monroe Doctrine

as    Theodore Roosevelt