Sidney Blackmer
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: July 12, 1895
Day of Death: October 6, 1973 (78 years old)
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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Actor Arnold Milbar
Nazi Agent
Actor Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
The Panther's Claw
Actor Philip Ames
Always in My Heart
Actor Carlyle Harrison
Sabotage Squad
Actor Henry - George's Attorney
Obliging Young Lady
Actor Steve Carey
Gallant Lady
Actor Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)
March On, America!
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Actor Lawyer George Renny
Love Crazy
Actor Dave Lennox
The Great Swindle
Actor Blake Standish
The Officer and the Lady
Actor Anthony Rhodes
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
Actor Freddie Bond
The Feminine Touch
Actor Mr. Wheeler
Murder Among Friends
Actor Ellery Gibson
Down Mexico Way
Actor Guy Barton
Angels with Broken Wings
Actor Augustus Moody
Rookies on Parade
Actor John Stevens
Cheers for Miss Bishop
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Actor Mann
Trapped in the Sky
Actor George Demarest
Within the Law
Actor Al Mallon
It's a Wonderful World
Actor Gregory Warren
Convict's Code
Actor Theodore Roosevelt
The Monroe Doctrine
Actor McNeil
Hotel for Women
Actor Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
Land of Liberty
Actor 'Lucky' Nolan
Fast and Loose
Actor Cash Enright
Unmarried
Actor Ralph Merritt
Law of the Pampas
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Actor San Francisco Editor
The Last Gangster
Actor Victor Karnoff
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
Actor Herr Eric Koeger
Thank You, Mr. Moto
Actor Walter Wiley
The Women Men Marry
Actor Rodney
John Meade's Woman
Actor Sesemann
Heidi
Actor Dr. Gordon Therberg
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Actor President Theodore Roosevelt
This Is My Affair
Actor Dr. Anson Ludlow
A Doctor's Diary
Actor Alex LeMaire
Girl Overboard
Actor Jim Mintum
Michael O'Halloran
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Actor Raymond Cortell
Behind the Green Lights
Actor Kenneth Alden
False Pretenses
Actor King Moss
Shadows of the Orient
Actor John Hart
Great God Gold
Actor Cedric McIntyre
The Fire-Trap
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A Notorious Gentleman
Actor Bill Rhodes
The Girl Who Came Back
Actor Gilbert Landon
Streamline Express
Actor Tony Bernardi
Forced Landing
Actor Harry Courtland
Smart Girl
Actor Swazey
The Little Colonel