Sidney Blackmer

Known For: Acting
Born: July 12, 1895
Place of Birth: Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
Died: October 6, 1973

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 Ton…

Filmography

Do You Take This Stranger?

1971 · G.R. Jarvis

Revenge Is My Destiny

Revenge Is My Destiny

1971 · Gregory Mann

The Name of the Game

1968 · Roman Stepanak, Clarence Dunhill

Rosemary's Baby

1968 · Roman Castevet

A Covenant with Death

1967 · Col. Oates

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

1966 · Professor Antrum

Joy in the Morning

1965 · Dean James Darwent

How to Murder Your Wife

1965 · Judge Blackstone

Profiles in Courage

Profiles in Courage

1964 · Oscar W. Underwood

Daniel Boone

1964 · Jasper Ledbedder

The Outer Limits

1963 · William Lyons Selby

Stampede at Bitter Creek

1962 · Sam Underwood

Ben Casey

1961

Target: The Corruptors!

1961

Dr. Kildare

1961 · Dr. Carleton Lantzinge, Dr. Andrew Bennett

Cain's Hundred

1961 · Joseph Callan

Thriller

1960 · Edward Stapleton

What Makes Sammy Run?

1959 · H.L. Harrington

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

1958 · Woodson

The Rifleman

1958 · , Judge Hanavan

The Texan

1958

Wanted: Dead or Alive

1958 · Judge Cooper

Strange Witness

1958 · Christopher

Tammy and the Bachelor

1957 · Professor Brent

Accused of Murder

1956 · Frank Hobart

The Little Foxes

1956 · Ben

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

1956 · Judge Hanavan

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

1956 · Austin Spencer

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

1956

High Society

1956 · Seth Lord

The View from Pompey's Head

1955 · Garvin Wales

Matinee Theater

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955 · Frank Partridge, Otis Jones

The Star and the Story

1955

Climax!

1954 · Prrof. Watson, Frank Bellason

The High and the Mighty

1954 · Humphrey Agnew

Johnny Dark

1954 · James Fielding

General Electric Theater

1953 · Christopher

The Ford Television Theatre

1952 · Wade Anthony

Washington Story

1952 · Philip Emery

The San Francisco Story

1952 · Andrew Cain

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951 · , Ben

People Will Talk

1951 · Arthur Higgins

Tales of Tomorrow

1951

Saturday's Hero

1951 · T.C. McCabe

Farewell to Yesterday

1950 · Self - Narrator(voice)

Armstrong Circle Theatre

1950

Robert Montgomery Presents

1950 · , Vardis Ward, Julian Prescott

Lights Out

1949

Suspense

1949 · Dr. Steven Archer

A Song Is Born

1948 · Adams

The Philco Television Playhouse

1948 · Marvin Platt

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948 · Self

My Girl Tisa

1948 · Theodore Roosevelt

Duel in the Sun

1946 · The Lover

Wilson

1944 · Josephus Daniels

The Lady and the Monster

1944 · Eugene Fulton

Buffalo Bill

1944 · Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)

Broadway Rhythm

1944 · Press Agent

In Old Oklahoma

1943 · Teddy Roosevelt

I Escaped from the Gestapo

1943 · Bergen

Murder in Times Square

1943 · George Nevins

Quiet Please, Murder

1943 · Martin Cleaver

Sabotage Squad

1942 · Carlyle Harrison

March On, America!

1942 · Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)

Gallant Lady

1942 · Steve Carey

Obliging Young Lady

1942 · Henry - George's Attorney

Always in My Heart

1942 · Philip Ames

The Panther's Claw

1942 · Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt

Nazi Agent

1942 · Arnold Milbar

Down Mexico Way

1941 · Ellery Gibson

The Officer and the Lady

1941 · Blake Standish

The Feminine Touch

1941 · Freddie Bond

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

1941 · Anthony Rhodes

Angels with Broken Wings

1941 · Guy Barton

Love Crazy

1941 · Lawyer George Renny

Rookies on Parade

1941 · Augustus Moody

The Great Swindle

1941 · Dave Lennox

Murder Among Friends

1941 · Mr. Wheeler

Cheers for Miss Bishop

1941 · John Stevens

Third Finger, Left Hand

1940 · Hughie Wheeler

I Want a Divorce

1940 · Erskine Brandon

Dance, Girl, Dance

1940 · Puss in Boots

Maryland

1940 · Spencer Danfield

Framed

1940 · Tony Bowman

Teddy the Rough Rider

1940 · Theodore Roosevelt

Law of the Pampas

1939 · Ralph Merritt

The Monroe Doctrine

1939 · Theodore Roosevelt

Hotel for Women

1939 · McNeil

Land of Liberty

1939 · Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')

Trapped in the Sky

1939 · Mann

Unmarried

1939 · Cash Enright

It's a Wonderful World

1939 · Al Mallon

Within the Law

1939 · George Demarest

Fast and Loose

1939 · "Lucky" Nolan

Convict's Code

1939 · Gregory Warren

Trade Winds

1938 · Thomas Bruhme II

While New York Sleeps

1938 · Ralph Simmons

Sharpshooters

1938 · Baron Orloff

Suez

1938 · Marquis Du Brey

Down on the Farm

1938 · Political Boss

Straight, Place and Show

1938 · 'Lucky' Braddock

Speed to Burn

1938 · Hastings

In Old Chicago

1938 · General Phil Sheridan

Thank You, Mr. Moto

1937 · Herr Eric Koeger

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo

1937 · Victor Karnoff

The Last Gangster

1937 · San Francisco Editor

Heidi

1937 · Sesemann

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

1937 · Dr. Gordon Therberg

The Women Men Marry

1937 · Walter Wiley

This Is My Affair

1937 · President Theodore Roosevelt

Michael O'Halloran

1937 · Jim Mintum

John Meade's Woman

1937 · Rodney

A Doctor's Diary

1937 · Dr. Anson Ludlow

Girl Overboard

1937 · Alex LeMaire

The House of Secrets

1936 · Tom Starr

The President's Mystery

1936 · George Sartos

Missing Girls

1936 · Dan Collins

Early to Bed

1936 · Rex Daniels

Florida Special

1936 · Jack Macklyn

Woman Trap

1936 · Riley Ferguson

Heart of the West

1936 · Big John Trumbull

Forced Landing

1935 · Tony Bernardi

The Fire-Trap

1935 · Cedric McIntyre

False Pretenses

1935 · Kenneth Alden

The Girl Who Came Back

1935 · Bill Rhodes

Streamline Express

1935 · Gilbert Landon

Smart Girl

1935 · Harry Courtland

Shadows of the Orient

1935 · King Moss

Great God Gold

1935 · John Hart

Behind the Green Lights

1935 · Raymond Cortell

The Little Colonel

1935 · Swazey

A Notorious Gentleman

1935 · Clayton Bradford

The President Vanishes

1934 · D.L. Voorman

Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round

1934 · Lee Lother

The Count of Monte Cristo

1934 · Mondego

Down to Their Last Yacht

1934 · Barry Forbes

This Man Is Mine

1934 · Mort Holmes

Good-bye Love

1933 · Chester Hamilton

Deluge

1933 · Martin Webster

The Wrecker

1933 · Tom Cummings

Cocktail Hour

1933 · Lawton

From Hell to Heaven

1933 · Cliff Billings

The Lady Who Dared

1931 · Charles Townsend

It's a Wise Child

1931 · Steve

Woman Hungry

1931 · Geoffrey Brand

Little Caesar

1931 · Big Boy

Mothers Cry

1930 · Mr. Gerald Hart

Kismet

1930 · Wazir Mansur

The Bad Man

1930 · Morgan Pell

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

1930 · Self

Sweethearts and Wives

Sweethearts and Wives

1930 · Anthony Peel

Strictly Modern

1930 · Heath Desmond

The Love Racket

1929

A Most Immoral Lady

1929 · Humphrey Sergeant

Beating Back

1914

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