
Sidney Blackmer
Born: 1895-07-12
Place of Birth: Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
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

The San Francisco Story

A Covenant with Death

Accused of Murder

Little Caesar

High Society

Rosemary's Baby

Shadows of the Orient

Nazi Agent

Missing Girls

Speed to Burn

Forced Landing

Cocktail Hour

Heidi

The President Vanishes

Wilson

Buffalo Bill

Woman Hungry

Deluge

Mothers Cry

Duel in the Sun

Trade Winds

Sharpshooters

Kismet

Streamline Express

The Little Foxes

Smart Girl

It's a Wonderful World

Maryland

A Song Is Born

Gallant Lady

The Last Gangster

Angels with Broken Wings

Woman Trap

My Girl Tisa

Teddy the Rough Rider

Strictly Modern

False Pretenses

The Little Colonel

March On, America!

Rookies on Parade

Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round

Quiet Please, Murder

Framed

Girl Overboard

While New York Sleeps

Thank You, Mr. Moto

How to Murder Your Wife

The House of Secrets

The Count of Monte Cristo

Unmarried

The High and the Mighty

Good-bye Love

Down on the Farm

Michael O'Halloran

Hotel for Women

I Escaped from the Gestapo

This Is My Affair

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo

In Old Chicago

People Will Talk

In Old Oklahoma

Dance, Girl, Dance

Behind the Green Lights

I Want a Divorce

The Lady Who Dared

Heart of the West

Obliging Young Lady

A Doctor's Diary

Land of Liberty

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Within the Law

A Notorious Gentleman

The Monroe Doctrine

Fast and Loose

This Man Is Mine

Down to Their Last Yacht

Cheers for Miss Bishop

Tammy and the Bachelor

Always in My Heart

Love Crazy

Suez

Murder in Times Square

John Meade's Woman

Johnny Dark

Law of the Pampas

The Love Racket

The Great Swindle

The Bad Man

The Women Men Marry

Do You Take This Stranger?

Straight, Place and Show

Down Mexico Way

From Hell to Heaven

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

The Lady and the Monster

Washington Story

Joy in the Morning

What Makes Sammy Run?

Early to Bed

The Feminine Touch

Saturday's Hero

The Wrecker

Florida Special

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

The Girl Who Came Back

Sabotage Squad

Trapped in the Sky

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

Great God Gold

Broadway Rhythm

The Panther's Claw

Murder Among Friends

The View from Pompey's Head

It's a Wise Child

The President's Mystery

The Officer and the Lady

Third Finger, Left Hand

Convict's Code

Strange Witness

A Most Immoral Lady
