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Sidney Blackmer

Sidney Blackmer

Actor · Born 1895-07-12 · Salisbury, North Carolina, USA

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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, R…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Rosemary's Baby (1968) — Roman Castevet
  2. Little Caesar (1931) — Big Boy
  3. High Society (1956) — Seth Lord
  4. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) — Frank Partridge
  5. Duel in the Sun (1946) — The Lover
  6. The Outer Limits (1963) — William Lyons Selby
  7. How to Murder Your Wife (1965) — Judge Blackstone
  8. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) — Austin Spencer
  9. Heidi (1937) — Sesemann
  10. People Will Talk (1951) — Arthur Higgins
  11. The High and the Mighty (1954) — Humphrey Agnew
  12. Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) — Puss in Boots
  13. The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) — Mondego
  14. The Rifleman (1958)
  15. In Old Chicago (1938) — General Phil Sheridan
  16. It's a Wonderful World (1939) — Al Mallon
  17. A Song Is Born (1948) — Adams
  18. In Old Oklahoma (1943) — Teddy Roosevelt
  19. Love Crazy (1941) — Lawyer George Renny
  20. Buffalo Bill (1944) — Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
  21. The Little Colonel (1935) — Swazey
  22. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958) — Judge Cooper
  23. Daniel Boone (1964) — Jasper Ledbedder
  24. The Last Gangster (1937) — San Francisco Editor
  25. Wilson (1944) — Josephus Daniels
  26. Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) — Professor Brent
  27. Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (1937) — Victor Karnoff
  28. The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) — Self
  29. Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937) — Herr Eric Koeger
  30. The Lady and the Monster (1944) — Eugene Fulton
  31. Deluge (1933) — Martin Webster
  32. Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941) — John Stevens
  33. Thriller (1960) — Edward Stapleton
  34. Dr. Kildare (1961) — Dr. Carleton Lantzinge
  35. Suez (1938) — Marquis Du Brey
  36. This Is My Affair (1937) — President Theodore Roosevelt
  37. Accused of Murder (1956) — Frank Hobart
  38. Ben Casey (1961)
  39. Nazi Agent (1942) — Arnold Milbar
  40. Third Finger, Left Hand (1940) — Hughie Wheeler