Sidney Blackmer

Known for ActingBorn 1895-07-12Died 1973-10-06Salisbury, North Carolina, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Down Mexico Way

Rookies on Parade

I Want a Divorce

Down on the Farm

Woman Hungry

Sweethearts and Wives

Farewell to Yesterday

My Girl Tisa

Land of Liberty

A Doctor's Diary

Girl Overboard

Michael O'Halloran

The Bad Man

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Rosemary's Baby

The Outer Limits

The Great Swindle

The Officer and the Lady

Trapped in the Sky

Sharpshooters

Woman Trap

Early to Bed

Behind the Green Lights

Forced Landing

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Love Racket

The Ford Television Theatre

From Hell to Heaven

Profiles in Courage

The Star and the Story

Sabotage Squad

Hotel for Women

Speed to Burn

False Pretenses

The Rifleman

The Name of the Game

Daniel Boone

This Is My Affair

The Monroe Doctrine

People Will Talk

Wanted: Dead or Alive

What Makes Sammy Run?

Tammy and the Bachelor

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

Washington Story

Quiet Please, Murder

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Murder Among Friends