
Sidney Blackmer
Born July 12, 1895 · 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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Rosemary's Baby

High Society

Duel in the Sun

The High and the Mighty

How to Murder Your Wife

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

It's a Wonderful World

In Old Oklahoma

A Song Is Born

Tammy and the Bachelor

Little Caesar

Dance, Girl, Dance

The Count of Monte Cristo

In Old Chicago

Heidi

Third Finger, Left Hand

The Lady and the Monster

This Is My Affair

Joy in the Morning

Love Crazy

Murder in Times Square

The Little Colonel

A Covenant with Death

The San Francisco Story

The View from Pompey's Head
TV Shows

Matinee Theater

Daniel Boone

Ben Casey

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

The Name of the Game

The Philco Television Playhouse

Wanted: Dead or Alive

The Outer Limits

The Ed Sullivan Show

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Thriller

The Ford Television Theatre

The Texan

Suspense

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Lights Out

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

Armstrong Circle Theatre

Cain's Hundred

Tales of Tomorrow

Target: The Corruptors!

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

Hallmark Hall of Fame

General Electric Theater

The Star and the Story
More Movies

Cheers for Miss Bishop

Always in My Heart

It's a Wise Child

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

People Will Talk

Down to Their Last Yacht

The Girl Who Came Back

Do You Take This Stranger?

The Officer and the Lady

Teddy the Rough Rider

The Women Men Marry

I Want a Divorce

What Makes Sammy Run?

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo

The House of Secrets

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round

While New York Sleeps

Thank You, Mr. Moto

Good-bye Love

The Lady Who Dared

The President's Mystery

Maryland

Straight, Place and Show

From Hell to Heaven

Gallant Lady

Obliging Young Lady

This Man Is Mine

Stampede at Bitter Creek

The Panther's Claw

Within the Law

Behind the Green Lights

The Last Gangster

I Escaped from the Gestapo

Down on the Farm

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

Fast and Loose

Heart of the West

Nazi Agent

Wilson

False Pretenses

Buffalo Bill

John Meade's Woman

Accused of Murder

Law of the Pampas

Land of Liberty

Missing Girls

The Feminine Touch

Early to Bed

A Doctor's Diary

Unmarried

Deluge

Woman Trap

Shadows of the Orient

Angels with Broken Wings

Broadway Rhythm

My Girl Tisa

Suez

Girl Overboard

The President Vanishes

Johnny Dark

A Most Immoral Lady

Down Mexico Way

Trapped in the Sky

Trade Winds

Saturday's Hero

Kismet

Washington Story

Sabotage Squad

Florida Special

The Wrecker

Convict's Code

The Great Swindle

Strange Witness

A Notorious Gentleman

Michael O'Halloran

Streamline Express

Cocktail Hour

Quiet Please, Murder

Great God Gold

The Monroe Doctrine

Smart Girl

Forced Landing

Hotel for Women

Rookies on Parade

Murder Among Friends

Farewell to Yesterday

The Bad Man

Framed

The Little Foxes

March On, America!

Woman Hungry

Mothers Cry

Sharpshooters

The Love Racket

Strictly Modern




