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Sidney Blackmer

Sidney Blackmer

Known for ActingBorn 1895-07-12Died 1973-10-06Salisbury, 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.Read more

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Down Mexico Way10.0
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Down Mexico Way

1941 · Movie

Rookies on Parade10.0
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Rookies on Parade

1941 · Movie

I Want a Divorce10.0
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I Want a Divorce

1940 · Movie

Down on the Farm10.0
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Down on the Farm

1938 · Movie

Woman Hungry10.0
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Woman Hungry

1931 · Movie

Sweethearts and Wives
10.0
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Sweethearts and Wives

1930 · Movie

Farewell to Yesterday9.0
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Farewell to Yesterday

1950 · Movie

My Girl Tisa9.0
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My Girl Tisa

1948 · Movie

Land of Liberty9.0
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Land of Liberty

1939 · Movie

A Doctor's Diary9.0
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A Doctor's Diary

1937 · Movie

Girl Overboard9.0
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Girl Overboard

1937 · Movie

Michael O'Halloran9.0
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Michael O'Halloran

1937 · Movie

The Bad Man9.0
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The Bad Man

1930 · Movie

Hallmark Hall of Fame8.8
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Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951 · Series

Rosemary's Baby7.8
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Rosemary's Baby

1968 · Movie

The Outer Limits7.8
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The Outer Limits

1963 · Series

The Great Swindle8.0
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The Great Swindle

1941 · Movie

The Officer and the Lady8.0
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The Officer and the Lady

1941 · Movie

Trapped in the Sky8.0
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Trapped in the Sky

1939 · Movie

Sharpshooters8.0
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Sharpshooters

1938 · Movie

Woman Trap8.0
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Woman Trap

1936 · Movie

Early to Bed8.0
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Early to Bed

1936 · Movie

Behind the Green Lights8.0
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Behind the Green Lights

1935 · Movie

Forced Landing8.0
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Forced Landing

1935 · Movie

Alfred Hitchcock Presents7.8
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955 · Series

The Love Racket8.0
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The Love Racket

1929 · Movie

The Ford Television Theatre7.8
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The Ford Television Theatre

1952 · Series

From Hell to Heaven7.8
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From Hell to Heaven

1933 · Movie

Profiles in Courage
7.5
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Profiles in Courage

1964 · Series

The Star and the Story7.5
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The Star and the Story

1955 · Series

Sabotage Squad7.5
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Sabotage Squad

1942 · Movie

Hotel for Women7.5
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Hotel for Women

1939 · Movie

Speed to Burn7.5
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Speed to Burn

1938 · Movie

False Pretenses7.3
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False Pretenses

1935 · Movie

The Rifleman7.1
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The Rifleman

1958 · Series

The Name of the Game7.0
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The Name of the Game

1968 · Series

Daniel Boone7.0
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Daniel Boone

1964 · Series

This Is My Affair7.3
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This Is My Affair

1937 · Movie

The Monroe Doctrine7.3
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The Monroe Doctrine

1939 · Movie

People Will Talk7.1
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People Will Talk

1951 · Movie

Wanted: Dead or Alive7.0
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Wanted: Dead or Alive

1958 · Series

What Makes Sammy Run?7.0
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What Makes Sammy Run?

1959 · Movie

Tammy and the Bachelor7.0
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Tammy and the Bachelor

1957 · Movie

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.6.9
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The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

1966 · Series

Washington Story7.0
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Washington Story

1952 · Movie

Quiet Please, Murder7.0
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Quiet Please, Murder

1943 · Movie

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt6.9
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

1956 · Movie

Murder Among Friends7.0
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Murder Among Friends

1941 · Movie