Birth Day: 1895-07-12
Place of birth: 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.
Credits
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As G.R. Jarvis -
As Gregory Mann
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As Roman Castevet -
As Col. Oates -
As Dean James Darwent -
As Judge Blackstone -
As Sam Underwood -
As H.L. Harrington -
As Christopher -
As Professor Brent -
As Frank Hobart -
As Ben -
As Austin Spencer -
As Seth Lord -
As Garvin Wales -
As Humphrey Agnew -
As James Fielding -
As Andrew Cain -
As Philip Emery -
As T.C. McCabe -
As Arthur Higgins -
As Self - Narrator(voice) -
As Theodore Roosevelt -
As Adams -
As The Lover -
As Josephus Daniels -
As Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited) -
As Eugene Fulton -
As Press Agent -
As Bergen -
As Teddy Roosevelt -
As George Nevins -
As Martin Cleaver -
As Steve Carey -
As Henry - George's Attorney -
As Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited) -
As Philip Ames -
As Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt -
As Carlyle Harrison -
As Arnold Milbar -
As Dave Lennox -
As Guy Barton -
As Lawyer George Renny -
As Augustus Moody -
As John Stevens -
As Blake Standish -
As Ellery Gibson -
As Freddie Bond -
As Anthony Rhodes -
As Mr. Wheeler -
As Puss in Boots -
As Theodore Roosevelt -
As Hughie Wheeler -
As Tony Bowman -
As Erskine Brandon -
As Spencer Danfield -
As Ralph Merritt -
As Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider') -
As Gregory Warren -
As Mann -
As "Lucky" Nolan -
As McNeil -
As George Demarest -
As Theodore Roosevelt -
As Cash Enright -
As Al Mallon -
As Baron Orloff -
As General Phil Sheridan -
As Marquis Du Brey -
As Political Boss -
As Ralph Simmons -
As Thomas Bruhme II -
As 'Lucky' Braddock -
As Hastings -
As Alex LeMaire -
As Herr Eric Koeger -
As Dr. Gordon Therberg -
As Rodney -
As Dr. Anson Ludlow -
As Victor Karnoff -
As San Francisco Editor -
As President Theodore Roosevelt -
As Sesemann -
As Jim Mintum -
As Walter Wiley -
As Rex Daniels -
As Riley Ferguson -
As Jack Macklyn -
As Tom Starr -
As Dan Collins -
As Big John Trumbull -
As George Sartos -
As Swazey -
As Clayton Bradford -
As John Hart -
As Tony Bernardi -
As Raymond Cortell -
As Kenneth Alden -
As Gilbert Landon -
As King Moss -
As Cedric McIntyre
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As Harry Courtland -
As Bill Rhodes -
As Barry Forbes -
As Mondego -
As Mort Holmes -
As Lee Lother -
As D.L. Voorman -
As Chester Hamilton -
As Martin Webster -
As Lawton -
As Cliff Billings -
As Tom Cummings -
As Steve -
As Charles Townsend -
As Big Boy -
As Geoffrey Brand -
As Anthony Peel
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As Mr. Gerald Hart -
As Self -
As Wazir Mansur -
As Heath Desmond -
As Morgan Pell -
As Humphrey Sergeant -
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