Sidney Blackmer

Acting

Born Jul 12, 1895

From Salisbury, North Carolina, USA

Died Oct 06, 1973

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.

Sidney Blackmer

Known For

Rosemary's Baby

High Society

Duel in the Sun

Heidi

It's a Wonderful World

Wilson

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

The High and the Mighty

How to Murder Your Wife

Little Caesar

Filmography — Acting

Rosemary's Baby

High Society

Duel in the Sun

Heidi

It's a Wonderful World

Wilson

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

The High and the Mighty

How to Murder Your Wife

Little Caesar

People Will Talk

The Count of Monte Cristo

Love Crazy

Accused of Murder

Dance, Girl, Dance

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo

A Song Is Born

A Covenant with Death

The Last Gangster

In Old Oklahoma

Nazi Agent

Cheers for Miss Bishop

Suez

The San Francisco Story

Tammy and the Bachelor

In Old Chicago

Buffalo Bill

The Little Colonel

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

It's a Wise Child

Third Finger, Left Hand

The Panther's Claw

The Feminine Touch

Murder in Times Square

The Lady and the Monster

Trade Winds

False Pretenses

Missing Girls

Deluge

Kismet

Within the Law

Land of Liberty

I Escaped from the Gestapo

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

Smart Girl

Quiet Please, Murder

Hotel for Women

Teddy the Rough Rider

Unmarried

Woman Trap

The Wrecker

Always in My Heart

Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round

The View from Pompey's Head

Down to Their Last Yacht

Early to Bed

This Is My Affair

Washington Story

The President Vanishes

Maryland

Johnny Dark

Broadway Rhythm

Sweethearts and Wives

Convict's Code

Sabotage Squad

From Hell to Heaven

Rookies on Parade