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Sidney Blackmer

Sidney Blackmer

Actor · 1895 – 1973 · Salisbury, 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.

Movies24

  • Movie7.8

    Rosemary's Baby

    1968 · 4.5K votes

  • Movie6.8

    High Society

    1956 · 273 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Duel in the Sun

    1946 · 198 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

    1956 · 130 votes

  • Movie5.9

    The High and the Mighty

    1954 · 90 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Little Caesar

    1931 · 310 votes

  • Movie6.3

    How to Murder Your Wife

    1965 · 155 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Tammy and the Bachelor

    1957 · 26 votes

  • Movie6.7

    In Old Chicago

    1938 · 50 votes

  • Movie6.2

    In Old Oklahoma

    1943 · 47 votes

  • Movie6.5

    It's a Wonderful World

    1939 · 50 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Heidi

    1937 · 124 votes

  • Movie6.4

    A Song Is Born

    1948 · 47 votes

  • Movie6.8
  • Movie7.0

    Washington Story

    1952 · 3 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Dance, Girl, Dance

    1940 · 74 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Always in My Heart

    1942 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Gallant Lady

    1942 · 2 votes

  • Movie4.3

    Joy in the Morning

    1965 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.3
  • Movie6.3

    Missing Girls

    1936 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.6

    The Little Colonel

    1935 · 37 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Good-bye Love

    1933 · 3 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Johnny Dark

    1954 · 6 votes

Series24

  • TV5.7

    Dr. Kildare

    1961 · 19 votes

  • TV7.1

    The Rifleman

    1958 · 54 votes

  • TV7.0

    Daniel Boone

    1964 · 34 votes

  • TV5.3

    Matinee Theater

    1955 · 7 votes

  • TV6.0
  • TV7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955 · 265 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Name of the Game

    1968 · 13 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    1948 · 23 votes

  • TV3.8

    Climax!

    1954 · 12 votes

  • TV6.2
  • TV5.9

    Ben Casey

    1961 · 15 votes

  • TV7.1

    Wanted: Dead or Alive

    1958 · 38 votes

  • TV6.6
  • TV7.8

    The Outer Limits

    1963 · 164 votes

  • TV7.8
  • TV6.0

    The Texan

    1958 · 6 votes

  • TV6.7

    Thriller

    1960 · 20 votes

  • TV5.1

    Suspense

    1949 · 12 votes

  • TV5.3
  • TV6.0

    Lights Out

    1949 · 5 votes

  • TV5.2

    Cain's Hundred

    1961 · 4 votes

  • TV6.3
  • TV6.4

    Tales of Tomorrow

    1951 · 7 votes

  • TV4.5