Sidney Blackmer

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.

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Sidney Blackmer

Filmografia

Rosemary's baby: nastro rosso a New York

My Girl Tisa

L'alibi era perfetto

Innamorato pazzo

Alta società

La gente mormora

Duello al sole

Come uccidere vostra moglie

The Great Swindle

Trapped in the Sky

Piccolo Cesare

Within the Law

L'ultimo gangster

Quiet Please, Murder

The Officer and the Lady

Accused of Murder

Il conte di Montecristo

Charlie Chan - La valigia dei venti milioni

Questo mondo è meraviglioso

Nazi Agent

Prigionieri del cielo

Wapakoneta

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

Heart of the West

Broadway Rhythm

The Panther's Claw

L'amore è un'altra cosa

Wilson

Il tesoro di Gengis Khan

Chi dice donna...

L'incendio di Chicago

The House of Secrets

Always in My Heart

Behind the Green Lights

Missing Girls

The President's Mystery

While New York Sleeps

Murder Among Friends

Framed

Convict's Code

Murder in Times Square

Bolide rosso

The Monroe Doctrine

Joy in the Morning

Down Mexico Way

La donna e il mostro

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

Good-bye Love

False Pretenses

From Hell to Heaven

Shadows of the Orient

Trade Winds

The Women Men Marry

Saturday's Hero

Washington Story

La peccatrice di San Francisco

Hotel for Women

The Lady Who Dared

This Man Is Mine

Great God Gold

The Fire-Trap

Maryland

I Want a Divorce

L'uomo che uccise il suo carnefice

John Meade's Woman

Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round

Down to Their Last Yacht

The View from Pompey's Head

Kismet

Suez

A Notorious Gentleman

Sharpshooters

Angels with Broken Wings

Zoccoletti olandesi

La distruzione del mondo