Cast
Sidney Blackmer
Acting
Cast
Sidney Blackmer
Known for
Acting
Born
1895-07-12
From
Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
Died
1973-10-06
Also known as Sydney Blackmer, S.A. Blackmer, Sidney Alderman 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.
★7.8
MOVIE1968
Rosemary's Baby
as Roman Castevet
★6.8
MOVIE1956
High Society
as Seth Lord
★7.0
MOVIE1957
Tammy and the Bachelor
as Professor Brent
★6.3
MOVIE1936
Missing Girls
as Dan Collins
★6.2
MOVIE1943
In Old Oklahoma
as Teddy Roosevelt
★6.7
MOVIE1938
In Old Chicago
as General Phil Sheridan
★6.5
MOVIE1939
It's a Wonderful World
as Al Mallon
★6.3
MOVIE1931
It's a Wise Child
as Steve
★6.3
MOVIE1933
Good-bye Love
as Chester Hamilton
★6.3
MOVIE1965
How to Murder Your Wife
as Judge Blackstone
★6.5
MOVIE1942
Gallant Lady
as Steve Carey
★6.4
MOVIE1946
Duel in the Sun
as The Lover
★6.4
MOVIE1940
Dance, Girl, Dance
as Puss in Boots
★6.4
MOVIE1937
The Last Gangster
as San Francisco Editor
★6.9
MOVIE1937
Heidi
as Sesemann
★6.0
MOVIE1942
Obliging Young Lady
as Henry - George's Attorney
★5.9
MOVIE1954
The High and the Mighty
as Humphrey Agnew
★10.0
MOVIE1941
Down Mexico Way
as Ellery Gibson
★7.3
MOVIE1935
False Pretenses
as Kenneth Alden
★8.0
MOVIE1936
Woman Trap
as Riley Ferguson
★6.3
MOVIE1937
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
as Victor Karnoff
★6.8
MOVIE1934
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Mondego
★6.6
MOVIE1935
The Little Colonel
as Swazey
★6.9
MOVIE1931
Little Caesar
as Big Boy
★5.5
MOVIE1936
The House of Secrets
as Tom Starr
★4.8
MOVIE1939
Unmarried
as Cash Enright
★9.0
MOVIE1939
Land of Liberty
as Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
★4.8
MOVIE1967
A Covenant with Death
as Col. Oates
★6.8
MOVIE1940
Teddy the Rough Rider
as Theodore Roosevelt
★6.3
MOVIE1951
Saturday's Hero
as T.C. McCabe
★6.5
MOVIE1939
Within the Law
as George Demarest
★6.4
MOVIE1948
A Song Is Born
as Adams
★5.8
MOVIE1954
Johnny Dark
as James Fielding
★9.0
MOVIE1937
Girl Overboard
as Alex LeMaire
★7.0
MOVIE1940
Third Finger, Left Hand
as Hughie Wheeler
★5.3
MOVIE1936
Heart of the West
as Big John Trumbull
★6.3
MOVIE1942
Always in My Heart
as Philip Ames
★10.0
MOVIE1941
Rookies on Parade
as Augustus Moody
★7.1
MOVIE1951
People Will Talk
as Arthur Higgins
★4.2
MOVIE1965
Joy in the Morning
as Dean James Darwent
★7.0
MOVIE1931
The Lady Who Dared
as Charles Townsend
★8.0
MOVIE1941
The Great Swindle
as Dave Lennox
★9.0
MOVIE1950
Farewell to Yesterday
as Self - Narrator(voice)
MOVIE1962
Stampede at Bitter Creek
as Sam Underwood
★5.8
MOVIE1944
Buffalo Bill
as Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1938
Down on the Farm
as Political Boss
★9.0
MOVIE1937
Michael O'Halloran
as Jim Mintum
★6.0
MOVIE1944
The Lady and the Monster
as Eugene Fulton
★8.0
MOVIE1929
The Love Racket
★7.3
MOVIE1937
This Is My Affair
as President Theodore Roosevelt
★6.8
MOVIE1941
Love Crazy
as Lawyer George Renny
★5.6
MOVIE1944
Wilson
as Josephus Daniels
★6.0
MOVIE1933
Deluge
as Martin Webster
★10.0
MOVIE1940
I Want a Divorce
as Erskine Brandon
★7.0
MOVIE1952
Washington Story
as Philip Emery
★5.9
MOVIE1939
Fast and Loose
as "Lucky" Nolan
★6.9
MOVIE1956
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
as Austin Spencer
★6.6
MOVIE1942
Nazi Agent
as Arnold Milbar
★7.0
MOVIE1936
Florida Special
as Jack Macklyn
★5.9
MOVIE1934
This Man Is Mine
as Mort Holmes
★6.4
MOVIE1938
Trade Winds
as Thomas Bruhme II
★6.0
MOVIE1935
Streamline Express
as Gilbert Landon
★3.8
MOVIE1955
The View from Pompey's Head
as Garvin Wales
★5.8
MOVIE1941
Cheers for Miss Bishop
as John Stevens
★6.3
MOVIE1944
Broadway Rhythm
as Press Agent
★5.1
MOVIE1941
The Feminine Touch
as Freddie Bond
★5.3
MOVIE1939
Convict's Code
as Gregory Warren
★7.0
MOVIE1941
Murder Among Friends
as Mr. Wheeler
★5.3
MOVIE1933
Cocktail Hour
as Lawton
★6.2
MOVIE1937
Thank You, Mr. Moto
as Herr Eric Koeger
★7.0
MOVIE1935
Smart Girl
as Harry Courtland
★4.9
MOVIE1952
The San Francisco Story
as Andrew Cain
★3.7
MOVIE1933
The Wrecker
as Tom Cummings
★7.0
MOVIE1938
While New York Sleeps
as Ralph Simmons
★5.8
MOVIE1936
The President's Mystery
as George Sartos
★5.5
MOVIE1938
Suez
as Marquis Du Brey
★7.0
MOVIE1959
What Makes Sammy Run?
as H.L. Harrington
★6.0
MOVIE1934
The President Vanishes
as D.L. Voorman
★7.0
MOVIE1937
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
as Dr. Gordon Therberg
★5.0
MOVIE1939
Law of the Pampas
as Ralph Merritt
★9.0
MOVIE1948
My Girl Tisa
as Theodore Roosevelt
★7.5
MOVIE1939
Hotel for Women
as McNeil
★4.8
MOVIE1956
Accused of Murder
as Frank Hobart
★8.0
MOVIE1936
Early to Bed
as Rex Daniels
★9.0
MOVIE1937
A Doctor's Diary
as Dr. Anson Ludlow
★5.8
MOVIE1941
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
as Anthony Rhodes
★6.0
MOVIE1971
Do You Take This Stranger?
as G.R. Jarvis
★6.0
MOVIE1943
I Escaped from the Gestapo
as Bergen
★8.0
MOVIE1935
Forced Landing
as Tony Bernardi
★7.0
MOVIE1938
Straight, Place and Show
as 'Lucky' Braddock
★4.7
MOVIE1943
Murder in Times Square
as George Nevins
★7.5
MOVIE1938
Speed to Burn
as Hastings
★7.8
MOVIE1933
From Hell to Heaven
as Cliff Billings
★6.5
MOVIE1942
The Panther's Claw
as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
★6.2
MOVIE1940
Framed
as Tony Bowman
★6.5
MOVIE1940
Maryland
as Spencer Danfield
★6.0
MOVIE1930
Mothers Cry
as Mr. Gerald Hart
★6.0
MOVIE1935
Shadows of the Orient
as King Moss
★6.5
MOVIE1934
Down to Their Last Yacht
as Barry Forbes
★7.5
MOVIE1942
Sabotage Squad
as Carlyle Harrison
★4.0
MOVIE1930
Kismet
as Wazir Mansur
★7.0
MOVIE1939
The Monroe Doctrine
as Theodore Roosevelt
★5.5
MOVIE1942
March On, America!
as Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)
MOVIE1958
Strange Witness
as Christopher
★8.0
MOVIE1938
Sharpshooters
as Baron Orloff
★7.0
MOVIE1943
Quiet Please, Murder
as Martin Cleaver
★8.0
MOVIE1939
Trapped in the Sky
as Mann
★6.3
MOVIE1937
The Women Men Marry
as Walter Wiley
★5.3
MOVIE1941
Angels with Broken Wings
as Guy Barton
★4.6
MOVIE1934
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
as Lee Lother
★5.7
MOVIE1971
Revenge Is My Destiny
as Gregory Mann
★6.0
MOVIE1935
The Girl Who Came Back
as Bill Rhodes
★4.5
MOVIE1930
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
as Self
MOVIE1956
The Little Foxes
as Ben
★6.5
MOVIE1935
A Notorious Gentleman
as Clayton Bradford
★7.0
MOVIE1937
John Meade's Woman
as Rodney
★9.0
MOVIE1930
The Bad Man
as Morgan Pell
★10.0
MOVIE1930
Sweethearts and Wives
as Anthony Peel
MOVIE1914
Beating Back
★10.0
MOVIE1931
Woman Hungry
as Geoffrey Brand
★7.0
MOVIE1930
Strictly Modern
as Heath Desmond
★8.0
MOVIE1935
Behind the Green Lights
as Raymond Cortell
★8.0
MOVIE1941
The Officer and the Lady
as Blake Standish
★5.5
MOVIE1935
Great God Gold
as John Hart
★4.7
MOVIE1935
The Fire-Trap
as Cedric McIntyre
★3.3
MOVIE1929
A Most Immoral Lady
as Humphrey Sergeant