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 pic...
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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Movies (Cast)
Little Caesar
High Society
Broadway Rhythm
Buffalo Bill
Streamline Express
Nazi Agent
The High and the Mighty
Suez
Deluge
A Song Is Born
Framed
Maryland
Wilson
How to Murder Your Wife
It's a Wonderful World
Rosemary's Baby
Duel in the Sun
The Count of Monte Cristo
False Pretenses
The Women Men Marry
The Feminine Touch
Cocktail Hour
The Lady and the Monster
In Old Chicago
Third Finger, Left Hand
Washington Story
Heidi
Quiet Please, Murder
Johnny Dark
Kismet
Trade Winds
Fast and Loose
Accused of Murder
Dance, Girl, Dance
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
The San Francisco Story
The President Vanishes
Angels with Broken Wings
Early to Bed
What Makes Sammy Run?
A Doctor's Diary
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
Shadows of the Orient
Law of the Pampas
This Man Is Mine
The Officer and the Lady
In Old Oklahoma
Murder in Times Square
Smart Girl
Gallant Lady
March On, America!
The View from Pompey's Head
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee