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.

Filmography

• 1971Do You Take This Stranger? — G.R. Jarvis
• 1971Revenge Is My Destiny — Gregory Mann
• 1968Rosemary's Baby — Roman Castevet
• The Name of the Game — Roman Stepanak, Clarence Dunhill
• 1967A Covenant with Death — Col. Oates
• The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. — Professor Antrum
• 1965How to Murder Your Wife — Judge Blackstone
• 1965Joy in the Morning — Dean James Darwent
• Daniel Boone — Jasper Ledbedder
• Profiles in Courage — Oscar W. Underwood
• The Outer Limits — William Lyons Selby
• 1962Stampede at Bitter Creek — Sam Underwood
• Ben Casey
• Cain's Hundred — Joseph Callan
• Dr. Kildare — Dr. Carleton Lantzinge, Dr. Andrew Bennett
• Target: The Corruptors!
• Thriller — Edward Stapleton
• 1959What Makes Sammy Run? — H.L. Harrington
• 1958Strange Witness — Christopher
• The Rifleman — Judge Hanavan
• The Texan
• Wanted: Dead or Alive — Judge Cooper
• Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse — Woodson
• 1957Tammy and the Bachelor — Professor Brent
• 1956Accused of Murder — Frank Hobart
• 1956Beyond a Reasonable Doubt — Austin Spencer
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Judge Hanavan
• 1956High Society — Seth Lord
• The Adventures of Jim Bowie
• 1956The Little Foxes — Ben
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Frank Partridge, Otis Jones
• Matinee Theater
• The Star and the Story
• 1955The View from Pompey's Head — Garvin Wales
• Climax! — Prrof. Watson, Frank Bellason
• 1954Johnny Dark — James Fielding
• 1954The High and the Mighty — Humphrey Agnew
• General Electric Theater — Christopher
• The Ford Television Theatre — Wade Anthony
• 1952The San Francisco Story — Andrew Cain
• 1952Washington Story — Philip Emery
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Ben
• 1951People Will Talk — Arthur Higgins
• 1951Saturday's Hero — T.C. McCabe
• Tales of Tomorrow
• Armstrong Circle Theatre
• Robert Montgomery Presents — Vardis Ward, Julian Prescott
• Lights Out
• Suspense — Dr. Steven Archer
• 1948A Song Is Born — Adams
• 1948My Girl Tisa — Theodore Roosevelt
• The Philco Television Playhouse — Marvin Platt
• 1946Duel in the Sun — The Lover
• 1944Broadway Rhythm — Press Agent
• 1944Buffalo Bill — Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
• 1944The Lady and the Monster — Eugene Fulton
• 1944Wilson — Josephus Daniels
• 1943I Escaped from the Gestapo — Bergen
• 1943In Old Oklahoma — Teddy Roosevelt
• 1943Murder in Times Square — George Nevins
• 1943Quiet Please, Murder — Martin Cleaver
• 1942Always in My Heart — Philip Ames
• 1942Gallant Lady — Steve Carey
• 1942March On, America! — Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1942Nazi Agent — Arnold Milbar
• 1942Obliging Young Lady — Henry - George's Attorney
• 1942Sabotage Squad — Carlyle Harrison
• 1942The Panther's Claw — Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
• 1941Angels with Broken Wings — Guy Barton
• 1941Cheers for Miss Bishop — John Stevens
• 1941Down Mexico Way — Ellery Gibson
• 1941Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime — Anthony Rhodes
• 1941Love Crazy — Lawyer George Renny
• 1941Murder Among Friends — Mr. Wheeler
• 1941Rookies on Parade — Augustus Moody
• 1941The Feminine Touch — Freddie Bond
• 1941The Great Swindle — Dave Lennox
• 1941The Officer and the Lady — Blake Standish
• 1940Dance, Girl, Dance — Puss in Boots
• 1940Framed — Tony Bowman
• 1940I Want a Divorce — Erskine Brandon
• 1940Maryland — Spencer Danfield
• 1940Teddy the Rough Rider — Theodore Roosevelt
• 1940Third Finger, Left Hand — Hughie Wheeler
• 1939Convict's Code — Gregory Warren
• 1939Fast and Loose — "Lucky" Nolan
• 1939Hotel for Women — McNeil
• 1939It's a Wonderful World — Al Mallon
• 1939Land of Liberty — Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
• 1939Law of the Pampas — Ralph Merritt
• 1939The Monroe Doctrine — Theodore Roosevelt
• 1939Trapped in the Sky — Mann
• 1939Unmarried — Cash Enright
• 1939Within the Law — George Demarest
• 1938Down on the Farm — Political Boss
• 1938In Old Chicago — General Phil Sheridan
• 1938Sharpshooters — Baron Orloff
• 1938Speed to Burn — Hastings
• 1938Straight, Place and Show — 'Lucky' Braddock
• 1938Suez — Marquis Du Brey
• 1938Trade Winds — Thomas Bruhme II
• 1938While New York Sleeps — Ralph Simmons
• 1937A Doctor's Diary — Dr. Anson Ludlow
• 1937Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo — Victor Karnoff
• 1937Girl Overboard — Alex LeMaire
• 1937Heidi — Sesemann
• 1937John Meade's Woman — Rodney
• 1937Michael O'Halloran — Jim Mintum
• 1937Thank You, Mr. Moto — Herr Eric Koeger
• 1937The Last Gangster — San Francisco Editor
• 1937The Women Men Marry — Walter Wiley
• 1937This Is My Affair — President Theodore Roosevelt
• 1937Wife, Doctor and Nurse — Dr. Gordon Therberg
• 1936Early to Bed — Rex Daniels
• 1936Florida Special — Jack Macklyn
• 1936Heart of the West — Big John Trumbull
• 1936Missing Girls — Dan Collins
• 1936The House of Secrets — Tom Starr
• 1936The President's Mystery — George Sartos
• 1936Woman Trap — Riley Ferguson
• 1935A Notorious Gentleman — Clayton Bradford
• 1935Behind the Green Lights — Raymond Cortell
• 1935False Pretenses — Kenneth Alden
• 1935Forced Landing — Tony Bernardi
• 1935Great God Gold — John Hart
• 1935Shadows of the Orient — King Moss
• 1935Smart Girl — Harry Courtland
• 1935Streamline Express — Gilbert Landon
• 1935The Fire-Trap — Cedric McIntyre
• 1935The Girl Who Came Back — Bill Rhodes
• 1935The Little Colonel — Swazey
• 1934Down to Their Last Yacht — Barry Forbes
• 1934The Count of Monte Cristo — Mondego
• 1934The President Vanishes — D.L. Voorman
• 1934This Man Is Mine — Mort Holmes
• 1934Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round — Lee Lother
• 1933Cocktail Hour — Lawton
• 1933Deluge — Martin Webster
• 1933From Hell to Heaven — Cliff Billings
• 1933Good-bye Love — Chester Hamilton
• 1933The Wrecker — Tom Cummings
• 1931It's a Wise Child — Steve
• 1931Little Caesar — Big Boy
• 1931The Lady Who Dared — Charles Townsend
• 1931Woman Hungry — Geoffrey Brand
• 1930Kismet — Wazir Mansur
• 1930Mothers Cry — Mr. Gerald Hart
• 1930Strictly Modern — Heath Desmond
• 1930Sweethearts and Wives — Anthony Peel
• 1930The Bad Man — Morgan Pell
• 1929A Most Immoral Lady — Humphrey Sergeant
• 1929The Love Racket
• 1914Beating Back

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 1950Farewell to Yesterday — Self - Narrator(voice)
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self
• 1930An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee — Self