1895-07-12 ( 129 years old ) in 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.
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Movies
Do You Take This Stranger?
1971-01-18
Revenge Is My Destiny
1971-01-01
Rosemary's Baby
1968-06-12
A Covenant with Death
1967-02-15
Joy in the Morning
1965-05-05
How to Murder Your Wife
1965-01-26
What Makes Sammy Run?
1959-09-27
Strange Witness
1958-03-23
Tammy and the Bachelor
1957-06-14
Accused of Murder
1956-12-21
The Little Foxes
1956-12-16
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1956-09-13
High Society
1956-07-17
The View from Pompey's Head
1955-11-04
The High and the Mighty
1954-07-03
Johnny Dark
1954-06-25
Washington Story
1952-07-01
The San Francisco Story
1952-05-11
People Will Talk
1951-08-29
Saturday's Hero
1951-03-01
A Song Is Born
1948-10-19
My Girl Tisa
1948-02-07
Duel in the Sun
1946-12-31
Wilson
1944-08-01
The Lady and the Monster
1944-04-17
Buffalo Bill
1944-04-02
Broadway Rhythm
1944-01-19
In Old Oklahoma
1943-12-06
I Escaped from the Gestapo
1943-05-14
Murder in Times Square
1943-04-01
Quiet Please, Murder
1943-03-19
Sabotage Squad
1942-08-27
March On, America!
1942-06-20
Gallant Lady
1942-05-29
Obliging Young Lady
1942-04-01
Always in My Heart
1942-03-14
The Panther's Claw
1942-03-03
Nazi Agent
1942-03-01
Down Mexico Way
1941-10-15
The Officer and the Lady
1941-10-12
The Feminine Touch
1941-10-01
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
1941-08-14
Angels with Broken Wings
1941-05-27
Love Crazy
1941-05-23
Rookies on Parade
1941-04-16
The Great Swindle
1941-04-10
Murder Among Friends
1941-02-28
Cheers for Miss Bishop
1941-02-21
Third Finger, Left Hand
1940-10-11
I Want a Divorce
1940-09-20
Dance, Girl, Dance
1940-08-30
Maryland
1940-07-19
Framed
1940-02-23
Teddy the Rough Rider
1940-02-21
Law of the Pampas
1939-11-03
The Monroe Doctrine
1939-10-14
Hotel for Women
1939-08-03
Land of Liberty
1939-06-15
Trapped in the Sky
1939-06-01
Unmarried
1939-05-20
It's a Wonderful World
1939-05-19
Within the Law
1939-03-17
Fast and Loose
1939-02-17
Convict's Code
1939-01-18
Trade Winds
1938-12-28
While New York Sleeps
1938-12-16
Sharpshooters
1938-11-18
Suez
1938-10-28
Down on the Farm
1938-10-11
Straight, Place and Show
1938-09-30
Speed to Burn
1938-06-07
In Old Chicago
1938-04-15
Thank You, Mr. Moto
1937-12-24
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
1937-12-17
The Last Gangster
1937-11-12
Heidi
1937-10-15
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937-09-17
The Women Men Marry
1937-09-10
This Is My Affair
1937-05-28
Michael O'Halloran
1937-05-15
John Meade's Woman
1937-02-26
A Doctor's Diary
1937-02-16
Girl Overboard
1937-02-01
The House of Secrets
1936-10-28
The President's Mystery
1936-09-28
Missing Girls
1936-09-10
Early to Bed
1936-06-05
Florida Special
1936-04-21
Woman Trap
1936-03-06
Heart of the West
1936-02-24
Forced Landing
1935-12-02
The Fire-Trap
1935-11-26
False Pretenses
1935-10-21
The Girl Who Came Back
1935-09-20
Streamline Express
1935-09-15
Smart Girl
1935-07-16
Shadows of the Orient
1935-07-06
Great God Gold
1935-04-14
Behind the Green Lights
1935-03-11
The Little Colonel
1935-02-22
A Notorious Gentleman
1935-01-21
The President Vanishes
1934-11-17
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
1934-11-02
The Count of Monte Cristo
1934-09-06
Down to Their Last Yacht
1934-08-31
This Man Is Mine
1934-04-13
Good-bye Love
1933-11-09
Deluge
1933-08-17
The Wrecker
1933-07-10
Cocktail Hour
1933-06-05
From Hell to Heaven
1933-02-24
The Lady Who Dared
1931-05-29
It's a Wise Child
1931-04-10
Woman Hungry
1931-04-04
Little Caesar
1931-01-25
Mothers Cry
1930-12-04
Kismet
1930-10-30
The Bad Man
1930-09-11
Sweethearts and Wives
1930-06-15
Strictly Modern
1930-03-02
The Love Racket
1929-12-08
A Most Immoral Lady
1929-09-22
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