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.
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Filmography
all 154
Movies 125
TV Shows 29
self 4
Narrator 1
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
Do You Take This Stranger? (1971)
Revenge Is My Destiny (1971)
The Name of the Game (1968)
Mia and Roman (1968)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
A Covenant with Death (1967)
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966)
Joy in the Morning (1965)
How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
Profiles in Courage (1964)
Daniel Boone (1964)
The Outer Limits (1963)
Ben Casey (1961)
Target: The Corruptors! (1961)
Dr. Kildare (1961)
Cain's Hundred (1961)
Thriller (1960)
What Makes Sammy Run? (1959)
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958)
The Rifleman (1958)
The Texan (1958)
Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)
Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)
Accused of Murder (1956)
The Little Foxes (1956)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956)
High Society (1956)
The View from Pompey's Head (1955)
Matinee Theater (1955)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
The Star and the Story (1955)
Climax! (1954)
The High and the Mighty (1954)
Johnny Dark (1954)
General Electric Theater (1953)
Washington Story (1952)
The San Francisco Story (1952)
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
People Will Talk (1951)
Tales of Tomorrow (1951)
Saturday's Hero (1951)
Farewell to Yesterday (1950)
Robert Montgomery Presents (1950)
Lights Out (1949)
Suspense (1949)
A Song Is Born (1948)
The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
My Girl Tisa (1948)
Duel in the Sun (1946)
Wilson (1944)
The Lady and the Monster (1944)
Buffalo Bill (1944)
Broadway Rhythm (1944)
In Old Oklahoma (1943)
I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943)
Murder in Times Square (1943)
Quiet Please, Murder (1943)
Sabotage Squad (1942)
March On, America! (1942)
Gallant Lady (1942)
Obliging Young Lady (1942)
Always in My Heart (1942)
The Panther's Claw (1942)
Nazi Agent (1942)
Down Mexico Way (1941)
The Officer and the Lady (1941)
The Feminine Touch (1941)
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime (1941)
Angels with Broken Wings (1941)
Love Crazy (1941)
Rookies on Parade (1941)
The Great Swindle (1941)
Murder Among Friends (1941)
Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
I Want a Divorce (1940)
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
Maryland (1940)
Framed (1940)
Teddy the Rough Rider (1940)
Law of the Pampas (1939)
The Monroe Doctrine (1939)
Hotel for Women (1939)
Land of Liberty (1939)
Trapped in the Sky (1939)
Unmarried (1939)
It's a Wonderful World (1939)
Within the Law (1939)
Fast and Loose (1939)
Convict's Code (1939)
Trade Winds (1938)
While New York Sleeps (1938)
Sharpshooters (1938)
Suez (1938)
Down on the Farm (1938)
Straight, Place and Show (1938)
Speed to Burn (1938)
In Old Chicago (1938)
Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937)
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (1937)
The Last Gangster (1937)
Heidi (1937)
Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937)
The Women Men Marry (1937)
Shadows of the Orient (1937)
This Is My Affair (1937)
Michael O'Halloran (1937)
John Meade's Woman (1937)
A Doctor's Diary (1937)
Girl Overboard (1937)
The House of Secrets (1936)
The President's Mystery (1936)
Missing Girls (1936)
Early to Bed (1936)
Florida Special (1936)
Woman Trap (1936)
Heart of the West (1936)
Forced Landing (1935)
The Fire-Trap (1935)
False Pretenses (1935)
The Girl Who Came Back (1935)
Streamline Express (1935)
Smart Girl (1935)
Great God Gold (1935)
Behind the Green Lights (1935)
The Little Colonel (1935)
A Notorious Gentleman (1935)
The President Vanishes (1934)
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
Down to Their Last Yacht (1934)
This Man Is Mine (1934)
Good-bye Love (1933)
Deluge (1933)
The Wrecker (1933)
Cocktail Hour (1933)
From Hell to Heaven (1933)
The Lady Who Dared (1931)
It's a Wise Child (1931)
Woman Hungry (1931)
Little Caesar (1931)
Mothers Cry (1930)
Kismet (1930)
The Bad Man (1930)
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee (1930)
Sweethearts and Wives (1930)
Strictly Modern (1930)
The Love Racket (1929)
A Most Immoral Lady (1929)
Saga of Western Man
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1895-07-13
Deathday1973-10-06 (78 years old)
Birth PlaceSalisbury, United States of America
RelationshipsSuzanne Kaaren (1943-01-01 - 1973-01-01), Lenore Ulric (1928-01-01 - 1939-01-01)
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsSydney Blackmer, S.A. Blackmer, Sidney Alderman Blackmer
AwardsNorth Carolina Award for Fine Arts, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, North Carolina Award, Donaldson Awards, Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
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