1895-07-12 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.
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Do You Take This Stranger? | G.R. Jarvis | 1971-01-18 |
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Revenge Is My Destiny | Gregory Mann | 1971-01-01 |
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Rosemary's Baby | Roman Castevet | 1968-06-12 |
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A Covenant with Death | Col. Oates | 1967-02-15 |
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How to Murder Your Wife | Judge Blackstone | 1965-01-26 |
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Joy in the Morning | Dean James Darwent | 1965-05-05 |
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What Makes Sammy Run? | H.L. Harrington | 1959-09-27 |
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Strange Witness | Christopher | 1958-03-23 |
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Tammy and the Bachelor | Professor Brent | 1957-06-14 |
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The Little Foxes | Ben | 1956-12-16 |
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Accused of Murder | Frank Hobart | 1956-12-21 |
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High Society | Seth Lord | 1956-07-17 |
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Austin Spencer | 1956-09-13 |
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The View from Pompey's Head | Garvin Wales | 1955-11-04 |
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The High and the Mighty | Humphrey Agnew | 1954-07-03 |
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Johnny Dark | James Fielding | 1954-06-25 |
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Washington Story | Philip Emery | 1952-07-01 |
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The San Francisco Story | Andrew Cain | 1952-05-11 |
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People Will Talk | Arthur Higgins | 1951-08-29 |
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Saturday's Hero | T.C. McCabe | 1951-03-01 |
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Farewell to Yesterday | Self - Narrator(voice) | 1950-09-02 |
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A Song Is Born | Adams | 1948-10-19 |
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My Girl Tisa | Theodore Roosevelt | 1948-02-07 |
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Duel in the Sun | The Lover | 1946-12-31 |
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Wilson | Josephus Daniels | 1944-08-01 |
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Buffalo Bill | Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited) | 1944-04-02 |
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Broadway Rhythm | Press Agent | 1944-01-19 |
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The Lady and the Monster | Eugene Fulton | 1944-04-17 |
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I Escaped from the Gestapo | Bergen | 1943-05-14 |
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Quiet Please, Murder | Martin Cleaver | 1943-03-19 |
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In Old Oklahoma | Teddy Roosevelt | 1943-12-06 |
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Murder in Times Square | George Nevins | 1943-04-01 |
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The Panther's Claw | Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt | 1942-03-03 |
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Nazi Agent | Arnold Milbar | 1942-03-01 |
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March On, America! | Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1942-06-20 |
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Obliging Young Lady | Henry - George's Attorney | 1942-04-01 |
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Sabotage Squad | Carlyle Harrison | 1942-08-27 |
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Always in My Heart | Philip Ames | 1942-03-14 |
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Gallant Lady | Steve Carey | 1942-05-29 |
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Down Mexico Way | Ellery Gibson | 1941-10-15 |
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The Great Swindle | Dave Lennox | 1941-04-10 |
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Love Crazy | Lawyer George Renny | 1941-05-23 |
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The Officer and the Lady | Blake Standish | 1941-10-12 |
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Angels with Broken Wings | Guy Barton | 1941-05-27 |
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The Feminine Touch | Freddie Bond | 1941-10-01 |
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Rookies on Parade | Augustus Moody | 1941-04-16 |
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Cheers for Miss Bishop | John Stevens | 1941-02-21 |
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Murder Among Friends | Mr. Wheeler | 1941-02-28 |
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Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime | Anthony Rhodes | 1941-08-14 |
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Teddy the Rough Rider | Theodore Roosevelt | 1940-02-21 |
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Dance, Girl, Dance | Puss in Boots | 1940-08-30 |
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Maryland | Spencer Danfield | 1940-07-19 |
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I Want a Divorce | Erskine Brandon | 1940-09-20 |
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Framed | Tony Bowman | 1940-02-23 |
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Third Finger, Left Hand | Hughie Wheeler | 1940-10-11 |
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Trapped in the Sky | Mann | 1939-06-01 |
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Convict's Code | Gregory Warren | 1939-01-18 |
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Land of Liberty | Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider') | 1939-06-15 |
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Fast and Loose | "Lucky" Nolan | 1939-02-17 |
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Law of the Pampas | Ralph Merritt | 1939-11-03 |
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It's a Wonderful World | Al Mallon | 1939-05-19 |
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The Monroe Doctrine | Theodore Roosevelt | 1939-10-14 |
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Within the Law | George Demarest | 1939-03-17 |
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Unmarried | Cash Enright | 1939-05-20 |
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Hotel for Women | McNeil | 1939-08-03 |
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In Old Chicago | General Phil Sheridan | 1938-04-15 |
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Speed to Burn | Hastings | 1938-06-07 |
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Straight, Place and Show | 'Lucky' Braddock | 1938-09-30 |
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While New York Sleeps | Ralph Simmons | 1938-12-16 |
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Sharpshooters | Baron Orloff | 1938-11-18 |
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Down on the Farm | Political Boss | 1938-10-11 |
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Trade Winds | Thomas Bruhme II | 1938-12-28 |
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Suez | Marquis Du Brey | 1938-10-28 |
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Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo | Victor Karnoff | 1937-12-17 |
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John Meade's Woman | Rodney | 1937-02-26 |
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The Women Men Marry | Walter Wiley | 1937-09-10 |
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Girl Overboard | Alex LeMaire | 1937-02-01 |
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This Is My Affair | President Theodore Roosevelt | 1937-05-28 |
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Michael O'Halloran | Jim Mintum | 1937-05-15 |
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Heidi | Sesemann | 1937-10-15 |
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A Doctor's Diary | Dr. Anson Ludlow | 1937-02-16 |
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The Last Gangster | San Francisco Editor | 1937-11-12 |
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse | Dr. Gordon Therberg | 1937-09-17 |
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Thank You, Mr. Moto | Herr Eric Koeger | 1937-12-24 |
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Missing Girls | Dan Collins | 1936-09-10 |
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Early to Bed | Rex Daniels | 1936-06-05 |
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Heart of the West | Big John Trumbull | 1936-02-24 |
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Florida Special | Jack Macklyn | 1936-05-01 |
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The House of Secrets | Tom Starr | 1936-10-28 |
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Woman Trap | Riley Ferguson | 1936-03-06 |
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The President's Mystery | George Sartos | 1936-09-28 |
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The Fire-Trap | Cedric McIntyre | 1935-11-26 |
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False Pretenses | Kenneth Alden | 1935-10-21 |
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The Little Colonel | Swazey | 1935-02-22 |
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A Notorious Gentleman | Clayton Bradford | 1935-01-21 |
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Behind the Green Lights | Raymond Cortell | 1935-03-11 |
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The Girl Who Came Back | Bill Rhodes | 1935-09-20 |
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Smart Girl | Harry Courtland | 1935-07-16 |
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Forced Landing | Tony Bernardi | 1935-12-02 |
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Streamline Express | Gilbert Landon | 1935-09-15 |
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Great God Gold | John Hart | 1935-04-14 |
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Shadows of the Orient | King Moss | 1935-07-06 |
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Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round | Lee Lother | 1934-11-02 |
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The President Vanishes | D.L. Voorman | 1934-11-17 |
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Down to Their Last Yacht | Barry Forbes | 1934-08-31 |
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This Man Is Mine | Mort Holmes | 1934-04-13 |
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The Count of Monte Cristo | Mondego | 1934-09-06 |
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Good-bye Love | Chester Hamilton | 1933-11-09 |
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Deluge | Martin Webster | 1933-08-17 |
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From Hell to Heaven | Cliff Billings | 1933-02-24 |
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The Wrecker | Tom Cummings | 1933-07-10 |
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Cocktail Hour | Lawton | 1933-06-05 |
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It's a Wise Child | Steve | 1931-04-10 |
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Little Caesar | Big Boy | 1931-01-25 |
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The Lady Who Dared | Charles Townsend | 1931-05-29 |
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Woman Hungry | Geoffrey Brand | 1931-04-04 |
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The Bad Man | Morgan Pell | 1930-09-11 |
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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee | Self | 1930-08-01 |
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Sweethearts and Wives | Anthony Peel | 1930-06-15 |
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Mothers Cry | Mr. Gerald Hart | 1930-12-04 |
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Strictly Modern | Heath Desmond | 1930-03-02 |
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Kismet | Wazir Mansur | 1930-10-30 |
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A Most Immoral Lady | Humphrey Sergeant | 1929-09-22 |
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The Love Racket | 1929-12-08 | |
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Beating Back | 1914-04-11 |
