Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 12, 1895
Died
Oct 06, 1973
Place of Birth
Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
Credits
156 titles
Sidney 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.
Known For
Filmography
Do You Take This Stranger?
G.R. Jarvis
Revenge Is My Destiny
Gregory Mann
The Name of the Game
Roman Stepanak
Rosemary's Baby
Roman Castevet
A Covenant with Death
Col. Oates
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Professor Antrum
Joy in the Morning
Dean James Darwent
How to Murder Your Wife
Judge Blackstone
Profiles in Courage
Oscar W. Underwood
Daniel Boone
Jasper Ledbedder
The Outer Limits
William Lyons Selby
Stampede at Bitter Creek
Sam Underwood
Ben Casey
Target: The Corruptors!
Dr. Kildare
Dr. Carleton Lantzinge
Cain's Hundred
Joseph Callan
Thriller
Edward Stapleton
What Makes Sammy Run?
H.L. Harrington
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Woodson
The Rifleman
The Texan
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Judge Cooper
Strange Witness
Christopher
Tammy and the Bachelor
Professor Brent
Accused of Murder
Frank Hobart
The Little Foxes
Ben
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Judge Hanavan
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Austin Spencer
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
High Society
Seth Lord
The View from Pompey's Head
Garvin Wales
Matinee Theater
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Frank Partridge
The Star and the Story
Climax!
Prrof. Watson
The High and the Mighty
Humphrey Agnew
Johnny Dark
James Fielding
General Electric Theater
Christopher
The Ford Television Theatre
Wade Anthony
Washington Story
Philip Emery
The San Francisco Story
Andrew Cain
Hallmark Hall of Fame
People Will Talk
Arthur Higgins
Tales of Tomorrow
Saturday's Hero
T.C. McCabe
Farewell to Yesterday
Self - Narrator(voice)
Armstrong Circle Theatre
Robert Montgomery Presents
Lights Out
Suspense
Dr. Steven Archer