Acting
Sidney Blackmer
EN cinema · 126 credits
Born
12 July 1895
Died
6 October 1973 (aged 78)
Birthplace
Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
Also known as Sydney Blackmer · S.A. Blackmer · Sidney Alderman Blackmer
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
Filmography
Revenge Is My Destiny
1971
Revenge Is My Destiny
as Gregory Mann
Do You Take This Stranger?
as G.R. Jarvis
Rosemary's Baby
as Roman Castevet
A Covenant with Death
as Col. Oates
How to Murder Your Wife
as Judge Blackstone
Joy in the Morning
as Dean James Darwent
Stampede at Bitter Creek
as Sam Underwood
What Makes Sammy Run?
as H.L. Harrington
Strange Witness
as Christopher
Tammy and the Bachelor
as Professor Brent
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
as Austin Spencer
High Society
as Seth Lord
Accused of Murder
as Frank Hobart
The View from Pompey's Head
as Garvin Wales
The High and the Mighty
as Humphrey Agnew
Johnny Dark
as James Fielding
Washington Story
as Philip Emery
The San Francisco Story
as Andrew Cain
People Will Talk
as Arthur Higgins
Saturday's Hero
as T.C. McCabe
Farewell to Yesterday
as Self - Narrator(voice)
My Girl Tisa
as Theodore Roosevelt
A Song Is Born
as Adams
Duel in the Sun
as The Lover
Broadway Rhythm
as Press Agent
Wilson
as Josephus Daniels
The Lady and the Monster
as Eugene Fulton
Buffalo Bill
as Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
Quiet Please, Murder
as Martin Cleaver
Murder in Times Square
as George Nevins
In Old Oklahoma
as Teddy Roosevelt
Nazi Agent
as Arnold Milbar
The Panther's Claw
as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
Always in My Heart
as Philip Ames
Sabotage Squad
as Carlyle Harrison
Obliging Young Lady
as Henry - George's Attorney
Gallant Lady
as Steve Carey
March On, America!
as Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)
Love Crazy
as Lawyer George Renny
The Great Swindle
as Dave Lennox
The Officer and the Lady
as Blake Standish
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
as Anthony Rhodes
The Feminine Touch
as Freddie Bond
Murder Among Friends
as Mr. Wheeler
Down Mexico Way
as Ellery Gibson
Angels with Broken Wings
as Guy Barton
Rookies on Parade
as Augustus Moody
Cheers for Miss Bishop
as John Stevens
Third Finger, Left Hand
as Hughie Wheeler
Framed
as Tony Bowman
Maryland
as Spencer Danfield
I Want a Divorce
as Erskine Brandon
Teddy the Rough Rider
as Theodore Roosevelt
Dance, Girl, Dance
as Puss in Boots
Within the Law
as George Demarest
It's a Wonderful World
as Al Mallon
Convict's Code
as Gregory Warren
The Monroe Doctrine
as Theodore Roosevelt
Hotel for Women
as McNeil
Land of Liberty
as Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
Fast and Loose
as "Lucky" Nolan
Unmarried
as Cash Enright
Law of the Pampas
as Ralph Merritt
In Old Chicago
as General Phil Sheridan
While New York Sleeps
as Ralph Simmons
Trade Winds
as Thomas Bruhme II
Suez
as Marquis Du Brey
Sharpshooters
as Baron Orloff
Straight, Place and Show
as 'Lucky' Braddock
Speed to Burn
as Hastings
Down on the Farm
as Political Boss
The Last Gangster
as San Francisco Editor
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
as Victor Karnoff
Thank You, Mr. Moto
as Herr Eric Koeger
The Women Men Marry
as Walter Wiley
John Meade's Woman
as Rodney Bentley
Heidi
as Sesemann
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
as Dr. Gordon Therberg
This Is My Affair
as President Theodore Roosevelt
A Doctor's Diary
as Dr. Anson Ludlow
Girl Overboard
as Alex LeMaire
Michael O'Halloran
as Jim Mintum
Heart of the West
as Big John Trumbull
The House of Secrets
as Tom Starr
Missing Girls
as Dan Collins
The President's Mystery
as George Sartos
Woman Trap
as Riley Ferguson
Early to Bed
as Rex Daniels
Florida Special
as Jack Macklyn
Behind the Green Lights
as Raymond Cortell
False Pretenses
as Kenneth Alden
Shadows of the Orient
as King Moss
Great God Gold
as John Hart
The Fire-Trap
1935
The Fire-Trap
as Cedric McIntyre
A Notorious Gentleman
as Clayton Bradford
The Girl Who Came Back
as Bill Rhodes
Streamline Express
as Gilbert Landon
Forced Landing
as Tony Bernardi
Smart Girl
as Harry Courtland
The Little Colonel
as Swazey
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Mondego
This Man Is Mine
as Mort Holmes
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
as Lee Lother
Down to Their Last Yacht
as Barry Forbes
The President Vanishes
as D.L. Voorman
Cocktail Hour
as Lawton
Good-bye Love
as Chester Hamilton
From Hell to Heaven
as Cliff Billings
Deluge
as Martin Webster
The Wrecker
as Tom Cummings
Little Caesar
as Big Boy
The Lady Who Dared
as Charles Townsend
It's a Wise Child
as Steve
Woman Hungry
as Geoffrey Brand
Kismet
as Wazir Mansur
Mothers Cry
as Mr. Gerald Hart
The Bad Man
as Morgan Pell
Strictly Modern
as Heath Desmond
Sweethearts and Wives
1930
Sweethearts and Wives
as Anthony Peel
A Most Immoral Lady
as Humphrey Sergeant