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Sidney Blackmer

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1895-07-12

Day of Death

1973-10-06

Place of Birth

Salisbury, North Carolina, USA

Sidney Blackmer

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.

Filmography (126)

⭐ 6.0 Role: G.R. Jarvis

Do You Take This Stranger?

1971
No Image
⭐ 5.7 Role: Gregory Mann

Revenge Is My Destiny

1971
⭐ 7.8 Role: Roman Castevet

Rosemary's Baby

1968
⭐ 4.8 Role: Col. Oates

A Covenant with Death

1967
⭐ 4.2 Role: Dean James Darwent

Joy in the Morning

1965
⭐ 6.3 Role: Judge Blackstone

How to Murder Your Wife

1965
⭐ 0 Role: Sam Underwood

Stampede at Bitter Creek

1962
⭐ 7.0 Role: H.L. Harrington

What Makes Sammy Run?

1959
⭐ 0 Role: Christopher

Strange Witness

1958
⭐ 7.0 Role: Professor Brent

Tammy and the Bachelor

1957
⭐ 4.8 Role: Frank Hobart

Accused of Murder

1956
⭐ 0 Role: Ben

The Little Foxes

1956
⭐ 6.9 Role: Austin Spencer

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

1956
⭐ 6.8 Role: Seth Lord

High Society

1956
⭐ 3.8 Role: Garvin Wales

The View from Pompey's Head

1955