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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 12, 1895
Died
October 6, 1973
Place of Birth
Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
Also Known As
- Sydney Blackmer
- S.A. Blackmer
- Sidney Alderman Blackmer
Sidney Blackmer
0.5 Popularity
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
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G.R. Jarvis
Do You Take This Stranger?
1971
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3.5
Gregory Mann
Revenge Is My Destiny
1971
6.8
Roman Stepanak
The Name of the Game
1968
6.8
Clarence Dunhill
The Name of the Game
1968
7.8
Roman Castevet
Rosemary's Baby
1968
4.7
Col. Oates
A Covenant with Death
1967
6.6
Professor Antrum
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966
2.7
Dean James Darwent
Joy in the Morning
1965
6.3
Judge Blackstone
How to Murder Your Wife
1965
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5.0
Oscar W. Underwood
Profiles in Courage
1964
Credits
Do You Take This Stranger?
as G.R. Jarvis
1971
5.0
🎬
Revenge Is My Destiny
as Gregory Mann
1971
3.5
The Name of the Game
as Roman Stepanak
1968
6.8
The Name of the Game
as Clarence Dunhill
1968
6.8
Rosemary's Baby
as Roman Castevet
1968
7.8
A Covenant with Death
as Col. Oates
1967
4.7
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
as Professor Antrum
1966
6.6
Joy in the Morning
as Dean James Darwent
1965
2.7
How to Murder Your Wife
as Judge Blackstone
1965
6.3
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Profiles in Courage
as Oscar W. Underwood
1964
5.0
Daniel Boone
as Jasper Ledbedder
1964
7.0
The Outer Limits
as William Lyons Selby
1963
7.8
Ben Casey
1961
5.6
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
3.5
Dr. Kildare
as Dr. Carleton Lantzinge
1961
5.5
Dr. Kildare
as Dr. Andrew Bennett
1961
5.5
Cain's Hundred
as Joseph Callan
1961
4.7
Thriller
as Edward Stapleton
1960
6.6
What Makes Sammy Run?
as H.L. Harrington
1959
7.0
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
as Woodson
1958
5.8
The Rifleman
1958
7.1
The Rifleman
as Judge Hanavan
1958
7.1
The Texan
1958
5.5
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Judge Cooper
1958
6.8
Strange Witness
as Christopher
1958
0.0
Tammy and the Bachelor
as Professor Brent
1957
7.0
Accused of Murder
as Frank Hobart
1956
4.5
The Little Foxes
as Ben
1956
0.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Judge Hanavan
1956
6.0
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
as Austin Spencer
1956
6.8
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
5.0
High Society
as Seth Lord
1956
6.8
The View from Pompey's Head
as Garvin Wales
1955
2.8
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Frank Partridge
1955
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Otis Jones
1955
7.8
The Star and the Story
1955
7.0
Climax!
as Prrof. Watson
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Frank Bellason
1954
3.3
The High and the Mighty
as Humphrey Agnew
1954
5.9
Johnny Dark
as James Fielding
1954
5.0
General Electric Theater
as Christopher
1953
6.4
Washington Story
as Philip Emery
1952
6.0
The San Francisco Story
as Andrew Cain
1952
4.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Ben
1951
8.6
People Will Talk
as Arthur Higgins
1951
7.1
Tales of Tomorrow
1951
6.0
Saturday's Hero
as T.C. McCabe
1951
5.7
Farewell to Yesterday
as Self - Narrator(voice)
1950
0.0
Armstrong Circle Theatre
1950
3.0
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
5.6
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Vardis Ward
1950
5.6
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Julian Prescott
1950
5.6
Lights Out
1949
5.8
Suspense
as Dr. Steven Archer
1949
4.9
Suspense
1949
4.9
A Song Is Born
as Adams
1948
6.3
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Marvin Platt
1948
6.3
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
My Girl Tisa
as Theodore Roosevelt
1948
0.0
Duel in the Sun
as The Lover
1946
6.3
Wilson
as Josephus Daniels
1944
5.5
The Lady and the Monster
as Eugene Fulton
1944
5.9
Buffalo Bill
as Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
1944
5.6
Broadway Rhythm
as Press Agent
1944
5.5
In Old Oklahoma
as Teddy Roosevelt
1943
6.2
I Escaped from the Gestapo
as Bergen
1943
5.6
Murder in Times Square
as George Nevins
1943
4.3
Quiet Please, Murder
as Martin Cleaver
1943
6.8
Sabotage Squad
as Carlyle Harrison
1942
6.0
March On, America!
as Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)
1942
4.8
Gallant Lady
as Steve Carey
1942
5.0
Obliging Young Lady
as Henry - George's Attorney
1942
5.0
Always in My Heart
as Philip Ames
1942
6.0
The Panther's Claw
as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
1942
6.0
Nazi Agent
as Arnold Milbar
1942
6.6
Down Mexico Way
as Ellery Gibson
1941
0.0
The Officer and the Lady
as Blake Standish
1941
6.0
The Feminine Touch
as Freddie Bond
1941
4.6
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
as Anthony Rhodes
1941
5.8
Angels with Broken Wings
as Guy Barton
1941
3.7
Love Crazy
as Lawyer George Renny
1941
6.7
Rookies on Parade
as Augustus Moody
1941
0.0
The Great Swindle
as Dave Lennox
1941
0.0
Murder Among Friends
as Mr. Wheeler
1941
0.0
Cheers for Miss Bishop
as John Stevens
1941
5.4
Third Finger, Left Hand
as Hughie Wheeler
1940
6.8
I Want a Divorce
as Erskine Brandon
1940
0.0
Dance, Girl, Dance
as Puss in Boots
1940
6.4
Maryland
as Spencer Danfield
1940
6.2
Framed
as Tony Bowman
1940
5.8
Teddy the Rough Rider
as Theodore Roosevelt
1940
6.7
Law of the Pampas
as Ralph Merritt
1939
4.0
The Monroe Doctrine
as Theodore Roosevelt
1939
6.7
Hotel for Women
as McNeil
1939
6.0
Land of Liberty
as Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
1939
0.0
Trapped in the Sky
as Mann
1939
0.0
Unmarried
as Cash Enright
1939
3.0
It's a Wonderful World
as Al Mallon
1939
6.4
Within the Law
as George Demarest
1939
6.0
Fast and Loose
as "Lucky" Nolan
1939
5.6
Convict's Code
as Gregory Warren
1939
4.5
Trade Winds
as Thomas Bruhme II
1938
6.3
While New York Sleeps
as Ralph Simmons
1938
0.0
Sharpshooters
as Baron Orloff
1938
0.0
Suez
as Marquis Du Brey
1938
5.2
Down on the Farm
as Political Boss
1938
0.0
Straight, Place and Show
as 'Lucky' Braddock
1938
6.0
Speed to Burn
as Hastings
1938
6.0
In Old Chicago
as General Phil Sheridan
1938
6.6
Thank You, Mr. Moto
as Herr Eric Koeger
1937
6.1
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
as Victor Karnoff
1937
6.2
The Last Gangster
as San Francisco Editor
1937
6.4
Heidi
as Sesemann
1937
6.8
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
as Dr. Gordon Therberg
1937
6.0
The Women Men Marry
as Walter Wiley
1937
5.5
This Is My Affair
as President Theodore Roosevelt
1937
7.3
Michael O'Halloran
as Jim Mintum
1937
0.0
John Meade's Woman
as Rodney
1937
0.0
A Doctor's Diary
as Dr. Anson Ludlow
1937
10.0
Girl Overboard
as Alex LeMaire
1937
0.0
The House of Secrets
as Tom Starr
1936
5.2
The President's Mystery
as George Sartos
1936
5.3
Missing Girls
as Dan Collins
1936
5.0
Early to Bed
as Rex Daniels
1936
7.0
Florida Special
as Jack Macklyn
1936
6.0
Woman Trap
as Riley Ferguson
1936
0.0
Heart of the West
as Big John Trumbull
1936
4.0
Forced Landing
as Tony Bernardi
1935
0.0
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The Fire-Trap
as Cedric McIntyre
1935
5.0
False Pretenses
as Kenneth Alden
1935
5.0
The Girl Who Came Back
as Bill Rhodes
1935
5.7
Streamline Express
as Gilbert Landon
1935
4.7
Smart Girl
as Harry Courtland
1935
5.0
Shadows of the Orient
as King Moss
1935
4.8
Great God Gold
as John Hart
1935
5.0
Behind the Green Lights
as Raymond Cortell
1935
6.0
The Little Colonel
as Swazey
1935
6.5
A Notorious Gentleman
as Clayton Bradford
1935
6.0
The President Vanishes
as D.L. Voorman
1934
5.8
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
as Lee Lother
1934
4.1
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Mondego
1934
6.7
Down to Their Last Yacht
as Barry Forbes
1934
6.0
This Man Is Mine
as Mort Holmes
1934
5.5
Good-bye Love
as Chester Hamilton
1933
5.5
Deluge
as Martin Webster
1933
5.7
The Wrecker
as Tom Cummings
1933
1.0
Cocktail Hour
as Lawton
1933
4.8
From Hell to Heaven
as Cliff Billings
1933
7.2
The Lady Who Dared
as Charles Townsend
1931
5.0
It's a Wise Child
as Steve
1931
0.0
Woman Hungry
as Geoffrey Brand
1931
0.0
Little Caesar
as Big Boy
1931
6.9
Mothers Cry
as Mr. Gerald Hart
1930
0.0
Kismet
as Wazir Mansur
1930
2.7
The Bad Man
as Morgan Pell
1930
0.0
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
as Self
1930
3.4
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Sweethearts and Wives
as Anthony Peel
1930
0.0
Strictly Modern
as Heath Desmond
1930
0.0
The Love Racket
1929
0.0
A Most Immoral Lady
as Humphrey Sergeant
1929
1.0
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Beating Back
1914
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