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 H.L. Harrington -
As Christopher -
As Professor Brent -
As Frank Hobart -
As Austin Spencer -
As Seth Lord -
As Ben -
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 Adams -
As Theodore Roosevelt -
As The Lover -
As Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited) -
As Press Agent -
As Josephus Daniels -
As Eugene Fulton -
As Bergen -
As Teddy Roosevelt -
As George Nevins -
As Martin Cleaver -
As Arnold Milbar -
As Philip Ames -
As Henry - George's Attorney -
As Steve Carey -
As Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited) -
As Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt -
As Carlyle Harrison -
As Ellery Gibson -
As Augustus Moody -
As John Stevens -
As Mr. Wheeler -
As Blake Standish -
As Guy Barton -
As Dave Lennox -
As Freddie Bond -
As Lawyer George Renny -
As Anthony Rhodes -
As Hughie Wheeler -
As Theodore Roosevelt -
As Puss in Boots -
As Spencer Danfield -
As Erskine Brandon -
As Tony Bowman -
As Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider') -
As George Demarest -
As McNeil -
As Cash Enright -
As Gregory Warren -
As Mann -
As Al Mallon -
As "Lucky" Nolan -
As Theodore Roosevelt -
As Ralph Merritt -
As Ralph Simmons -
As Baron Orloff -
As Marquis Du Brey -
As General Phil Sheridan -
As Thomas Bruhme II -
As Hastings -
As Political Boss -
As 'Lucky' Braddock -
As Dr. Gordon Therberg -
As President Theodore Roosevelt -
As Sesemann -
As Victor Karnoff -
As Dr. Anson Ludlow -
As San Francisco Editor -
As Rodney -
As Alex LeMaire -
As Walter Wiley -
As Herr Eric Koeger -
As Jim Mintum -
As George Sartos -
As Jack Macklyn -
As Dan Collins -
As Tom Starr -
As Big John Trumbull -
As Rex Daniels -
As Riley Ferguson -
As Tony Bernardi -
As Bill Rhodes -
As John Hart -
As Cedric McIntyre
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As Raymond Cortell -
As Clayton Bradford -
As King Moss -
As Kenneth Alden -
As Swazey -
As Gilbert Landon -
As Harry Courtland -
As D.L. Voorman -
As Mort Holmes -
As Lee Lother -
As Barry Forbes -
As Mondego -
As Tom Cummings -
As Lawton -
As Martin Webster -
As Chester Hamilton -
As Cliff Billings -
As Big Boy -
As Geoffrey Brand -
As Charles Townsend -
As Steve -
As Heath Desmond -
As Anthony Peel
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As Wazir Mansur -
As Self -
As Mr. Gerald Hart -
As Morgan Pell -
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As Humphrey Sergeant -