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Sidney Blackmer

12th July 1895 Salisbury, North Carolina, USA Acting

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.

122 Movies 39 TV Shows 166 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Wilson poster
Wilson 1st August 1944 as Josephus Daniels
Maryland poster
Maryland 19th July 1940 as Spencer Danfield
Framed poster
Framed 23rd February 1940 as Tony Bowman
Land of Liberty poster
Land of Liberty 15th June 1939 as Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
Suez poster
Suez 28th October 1938 as Marquis Du Brey
Heidi poster
Heidi 15th October 1937 as Sesemann
Deluge poster
Deluge 17th August 1933 as Martin Webster
Kismet poster
Kismet 30th October 1930 as Wazir Mansur
Thriller poster
Thriller 13th September 1960 as Edward Stapleton
Climax! poster
Climax! 7th October 1954 as Prrof. Watson
Climax! poster
Climax! 7th October 1954 as Frank Bellason
Suspense poster
Suspense 6th January 1949 as Dr. Steven Archer