Sidney Blackmer
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 12, 1895, Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
- Died
- October 6, 1973
- Movies
- 126
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1971 | Do You Take This Stranger? | G.R. Jarvis |
| 1971 | Revenge Is My Destiny | Gregory Mann |
| 1968 | Rosemary's Baby | Roman Castevet |
| 1967 | A Covenant with Death | Col. Oates |
| 1965 | Joy in the Morning | Dean James Darwent |
| 1965 | How to Murder Your Wife | Judge Blackstone |
| 1962 | Stampede at Bitter Creek | Sam Underwood |
| 1959 | What Makes Sammy Run? | H.L. Harrington |
| 1958 | Strange Witness | Christopher |
| 1957 | Tammy and the Bachelor | Professor Brent |
| 1956 | Accused of Murder | Frank Hobart |
| 1956 | The Little Foxes | Ben |
| 1956 | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Austin Spencer |
| 1956 | High Society | Seth Lord |
| 1955 | The View from Pompey's Head | Garvin Wales |
| 1954 | The High and the Mighty | Humphrey Agnew |
| 1954 | Johnny Dark | James Fielding |
| 1952 | Washington Story | Philip Emery |
| 1952 | The San Francisco Story | Andrew Cain |
| 1951 | People Will Talk | Arthur Higgins |
| 1951 | Saturday's Hero | T.C. McCabe |
| 1950 | Farewell to Yesterday | Self - Narrator(voice) |
| 1948 | A Song Is Born | Adams |
| 1948 | My Girl Tisa | Theodore Roosevelt |
| 1946 | Duel in the Sun | The Lover |
| 1944 | Wilson | Josephus Daniels |
| 1944 | The Lady and the Monster | Eugene Fulton |
| 1944 | Buffalo Bill | Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Broadway Rhythm | Press Agent |
| 1943 | In Old Oklahoma | Teddy Roosevelt |
| 1943 | I Escaped from the Gestapo | Bergen |
| 1943 | Murder in Times Square | George Nevins |
| 1943 | Quiet Please, Murder | Martin Cleaver |
| 1942 | Sabotage Squad | Carlyle Harrison |
| 1942 | March On, America! | Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Gallant Lady | Steve Carey |
| 1942 | Obliging Young Lady | Henry - George's Attorney |
| 1942 | Always in My Heart | Philip Ames |
| 1942 | The Panther's Claw | Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt |
| 1942 | Nazi Agent | Arnold Milbar |
| 1941 | Down Mexico Way | Ellery Gibson |
| 1941 | The Officer and the Lady | Blake Standish |
| 1941 | The Feminine Touch | Freddie Bond |
| 1941 | Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime | Anthony Rhodes |
| 1941 | Angels with Broken Wings | Guy Barton |
| 1941 | Love Crazy | Lawyer George Renny |
| 1941 | Rookies on Parade | Augustus Moody |
| 1941 | The Great Swindle | Dave Lennox |
| 1941 | Murder Among Friends | Mr. Wheeler |
| 1941 | Cheers for Miss Bishop | John Stevens |
| 1940 | Third Finger, Left Hand | Hughie Wheeler |
| 1940 | I Want a Divorce | Erskine Brandon |
| 1940 | Dance, Girl, Dance | Puss in Boots |
| 1940 | Maryland | Spencer Danfield |
| 1940 | Framed | Tony Bowman |
| 1940 | Teddy the Rough Rider | Theodore Roosevelt |
| 1939 | Law of the Pampas | Ralph Merritt |
| 1939 | The Monroe Doctrine | Theodore Roosevelt |
| 1939 | Hotel for Women | McNeil |
| 1939 | Land of Liberty | Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider') |
| 1939 | Trapped in the Sky | Mann |
| 1939 | Unmarried | Cash Enright |
| 1939 | It's a Wonderful World | Al Mallon |
| 1939 | Within the Law | George Demarest |
| 1939 | Fast and Loose | "Lucky" Nolan |
| 1939 | Convict's Code | Gregory Warren |
| 1938 | Trade Winds | Thomas Bruhme II |
| 1938 | While New York Sleeps | Ralph Simmons |
| 1938 | Sharpshooters | Baron Orloff |
| 1938 | Suez | Marquis Du Brey |
| 1938 | Down on the Farm | Political Boss |
| 1938 | Straight, Place and Show | 'Lucky' Braddock |
| 1938 | Speed to Burn | Hastings |
| 1938 | In Old Chicago | General Phil Sheridan |
| 1937 | Thank You, Mr. Moto | Herr Eric Koeger |
| 1937 | Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo | Victor Karnoff |
| 1937 | The Last Gangster | San Francisco Editor |
| 1937 | Heidi | Sesemann |
| 1937 | Wife, Doctor and Nurse | Dr. Gordon Therberg |
| 1937 | The Women Men Marry | Walter Wiley |
| 1937 | This Is My Affair | President Theodore Roosevelt |
| 1937 | Michael O'Halloran | Jim Mintum |
| 1937 | John Meade's Woman | Rodney Bentley |
| 1937 | A Doctor's Diary | Dr. Anson Ludlow |
| 1937 | Girl Overboard | Alex LeMaire |
| 1936 | The House of Secrets | Tom Starr |
| 1936 | The President's Mystery | George Sartos |
| 1936 | Missing Girls | Dan Collins |
| 1936 | Early to Bed | Rex Daniels |
| 1936 | Florida Special | Jack Macklyn |
| 1936 | Woman Trap | Riley Ferguson |
| 1936 | Heart of the West | Big John Trumbull |
| 1935 | Forced Landing | Tony Bernardi |
| 1935 | The Fire-Trap | Cedric McIntyre |
| 1935 | False Pretenses | Kenneth Alden |
| 1935 | The Girl Who Came Back | Bill Rhodes |
| 1935 | Streamline Express | Gilbert Landon |
| 1935 | Smart Girl | Harry Courtland |
| 1935 | Shadows of the Orient | King Moss |
| 1935 | Great God Gold | John Hart |
| 1935 | Behind the Green Lights | Raymond Cortell |
| 1935 | The Little Colonel | Swazey |
| 1935 | A Notorious Gentleman | Clayton Bradford |
| 1934 | The President Vanishes | D.L. Voorman |
| 1934 | Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round | Lee Lother |
| 1934 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Mondego |
| 1934 | Down to Their Last Yacht | Barry Forbes |
| 1934 | This Man Is Mine | Mort Holmes |
| 1933 | Good-bye Love | Chester Hamilton |
| 1933 | Deluge | Martin Webster |
| 1933 | The Wrecker | Tom Cummings |
| 1933 | Cocktail Hour | Lawton |
| 1933 | From Hell to Heaven | Cliff Billings |
| 1931 | The Lady Who Dared | Charles Townsend |
| 1931 | It's a Wise Child | Steve |
| 1931 | Woman Hungry | Geoffrey Brand |
| 1931 | Little Caesar | Big Boy |
| 1930 | Mothers Cry | Mr. Gerald Hart |
| 1930 | Kismet | Wazir Mansur |
| 1930 | The Bad Man | Morgan Pell |
| 1930 | An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee | Self |
| 1930 | Sweethearts and Wives | Anthony Peel |
| 1930 | Strictly Modern | Heath Desmond |
| 1929 | The Love Racket | |
| 1929 | A Most Immoral Lady | Humphrey Sergeant |
| 1914 | Beating Back |
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