
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.

Rosemary's Baby
as Roman Castevet

High Society
as Seth Lord

Little Caesar
as Big Boy

Heidi
as Sesemann

Duel in the Sun
as The Lover

Wilson
as Josephus Daniels

Buffalo Bill
as Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)

How to Murder Your Wife
as Judge Blackstone

The High and the Mighty
as Humphrey Agnew

Sabotage Squad
as Carlyle Harrison

Maryland
as Spencer Danfield

In Old Oklahoma
as Teddy Roosevelt

Woman Hungry
as Geoffrey Brand

Framed
as Tony Bowman

Deluge
as Martin Webster

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
as Victor Karnoff

Suez
as Marquis Du Brey

A Song Is Born
as Adams

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
as Austin Spencer

The Wrecker
as Tom Cummings

Broadway Rhythm
as Press Agent

The Count of Monte Cristo
as Mondego

Joy in the Morning
as Dean James Darwent

People Will Talk
as Arthur Higgins

Smart Girl
as Harry Courtland

Sharpshooters
as Baron Orloff

Unmarried
as Cash Enright

Love Crazy
as Lawyer George Renny

Missing Girls
as Dan Collins

Nazi Agent
as Arnold Milbar

The View from Pompey's Head
as Garvin Wales

Trade Winds
as Thomas Bruhme II

A Covenant with Death
as Col. Oates

The Little Colonel
as Swazey

Thank You, Mr. Moto
as Herr Eric Koeger

Hotel for Women
as McNeil

Tammy and the Bachelor
as Professor Brent

Kismet
as Wazir Mansur

This Man Is Mine
as Mort Holmes

Early to Bed
as Rex Daniels

Land of Liberty
as Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')

Dance, Girl, Dance
as Puss in Boots

The Last Gangster
as San Francisco Editor

Third Finger, Left Hand
as Hughie Wheeler

This Is My Affair
as President Theodore Roosevelt

Fast and Loose
as "Lucky" Nolan

Wife, Doctor and Nurse
as Dr. Gordon Therberg

Obliging Young Lady
as Henry - George's Attorney

The Bad Man
as Morgan Pell

Girl Overboard
as Alex LeMaire

It's a Wonderful World
as Al Mallon

Quiet Please, Murder
as Martin Cleaver

Gallant Lady
as Steve Carey

Streamline Express
as Gilbert Landon

Cheers for Miss Bishop
as John Stevens

The House of Secrets
as Tom Starr

Johnny Dark
as James Fielding

Convict's Code
as Gregory Warren

Accused of Murder
as Frank Hobart

Good-bye Love
as Chester Hamilton

In Old Chicago
as General Phil Sheridan

Down Mexico Way
as Ellery Gibson

Within the Law
as George Demarest

Rookies on Parade
as Augustus Moody

Strange Witness
as Christopher

Down on the Farm
as Political Boss

Forced Landing
as Tony Bernardi

The Feminine Touch
as Freddie Bond

Saturday's Hero
as T.C. McCabe

From Hell to Heaven
as Cliff Billings

The Little Foxes
as Ben

The Monroe Doctrine
as Theodore Roosevelt

The Panther's Claw
as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt

It's a Wise Child
as Steve

While New York Sleeps
as Ralph Simmons

Speed to Burn
as Hastings

The Lady and the Monster
as Eugene Fulton

False Pretenses
as Kenneth Alden

John Meade's Woman
as Rodney

The San Francisco Story
as Andrew Cain

Do You Take This Stranger?
as G.R. Jarvis

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
as Anthony Rhodes

Trapped in the Sky
as Mann

Angels with Broken Wings
as Guy Barton

My Girl Tisa
as Theodore Roosevelt

Always in My Heart
as Philip Ames

Mothers Cry
as Mr. Gerald Hart

Behind the Green Lights
as Raymond Cortell

Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
as Lee Lother

Teddy the Rough Rider
as Theodore Roosevelt

Law of the Pampas
as Ralph Merritt

Shadows of the Orient
as King Moss

The Lady Who Dared
as Charles Townsend

I Want a Divorce
as Erskine Brandon

Florida Special
as Jack Macklyn

The Girl Who Came Back
as Bill Rhodes

Revenge Is My Destiny
as Gregory Mann

Heart of the West
as Big John Trumbull

Woman Trap
as Riley Ferguson

Down to Their Last Yacht
as Barry Forbes

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
as Self

Strictly Modern
as Heath Desmond

The Great Swindle
as Dave Lennox

The President Vanishes
as D.L. Voorman

Cocktail Hour
as Lawton

The Fire-Trap
as Cedric McIntyre

Michael O'Halloran
as Jim Mintum

The Women Men Marry
as Walter Wiley

I Escaped from the Gestapo
as Bergen

The Officer and the Lady
as Blake Standish

Washington Story
as Philip Emery

A Doctor's Diary
as Dr. Anson Ludlow

Straight, Place and Show
as 'Lucky' Braddock

Murder Among Friends
as Mr. Wheeler

A Notorious Gentleman
as Clayton Bradford

The President's Mystery
as George Sartos

The Love Racket

What Makes Sammy Run?
as H.L. Harrington

Sweethearts and Wives
as Anthony Peel

Beating Back

Farewell to Yesterday
as Self - Narrator(voice)

Great God Gold
as John Hart

A Most Immoral Lady
as Humphrey Sergeant

March On, America!
as Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)

Murder in Times Square
as George Nevins

Stampede at Bitter Creek
as Sam Underwood