Sidney Blackmer

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1895-07-12 (78 years old)

Deathday

1973-10-06

Place of Birth

Salisbury, North Carolina, USA

Sidney Blackmer

Biography

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 19...

Acting

1968

Rosemary's Baby

as Roman Castevet

1948

My Girl Tisa

as Theodore Roosevelt

1956

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

as Austin Spencer

1941

Love Crazy

as Lawyer George Renny

1956

High Society

as Seth Lord

1951

People Will Talk

as Arthur Higgins

1946

Duel in the Sun

as The Lover

1965

How to Murder Your Wife

as Judge Blackstone

1941

The Great Swindle

as Dave Lennox

1931

Little Caesar

as Big Boy

1939

Within the Law

as George Demarest

1937

The Last Gangster

as San Francisco Editor

1943

Quiet Please, Murder

as Martin Cleaver

1941

The Officer and the Lady

as Blake Standish

1956

Accused of Murder

as Frank Hobart

1937

1939

1942

Nazi Agent

as Arnold Milbar

1954

The High and the Mighty

as Humphrey Agnew

1940

Third Finger, Left Hand

as Hughie Wheeler

1936

Heart of the West

as Big John Trumbull

1944

Broadway Rhythm

as Press Agent

1942

The Panther's Claw

as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt

1933

Cocktail Hour

as Lawton

1944

Wilson

as Josephus Daniels

1937

Thank You, Mr. Moto

as Herr Eric Koeger

1941

The Feminine Touch

as Freddie Bond

1938

In Old Chicago

as General Phil Sheridan

1936

1942

Always in My Heart

as Philip Ames

1935

Behind the Green Lights

as Raymond Cortell

1936

Missing Girls

as Dan Collins

1936

The President's Mystery

as George Sartos

1938

While New York Sleeps

as Ralph Simmons

1941

Murder Among Friends

as Mr. Wheeler

1940

Framed

as Tony Bowman

1939

Convict's Code

as Gregory Warren

1943

Murder in Times Square

as George Nevins

1954

Johnny Dark

as James Fielding

1939

The Monroe Doctrine

as Theodore Roosevelt

1965

Joy in the Morning

as Dean James Darwent

1941

Down Mexico Way

as Ellery Gibson

1944

The Lady and the Monster

as Eugene Fulton

1933

Good-bye Love

as Chester Hamilton

1935

False Pretenses

as Kenneth Alden

1933

From Hell to Heaven

as Cliff Billings

1935

1938

Trade Winds

as Thomas Bruhme II

1937

The Women Men Marry

as Walter Wiley

1951

Saturday's Hero

as T.C. McCabe

1952

Washington Story

as Philip Emery

1952

1939

1931

The Lady Who Dared

as Charles Townsend

1934

This Man Is Mine

as Mort Holmes

1935

Great God Gold

as John Hart

1935

The Fire-Trap

as Cedric McIntyre

1940

Maryland

as Spencer Danfield

1940

I Want a Divorce

as Erskine Brandon

1967

1937

1934

1955

1930

Kismet

as Wazir Mansur

1938

Suez

as Marquis Du Brey

1935

A Notorious Gentleman

as Clayton Bradford

1938

Sharpshooters

as Baron Orloff

1941

1937

Heidi

as Sesemann

1933

Deluge

as Martin Webster

1939

Land of Liberty

as Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')

1944

Buffalo Bill

as Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)

1937

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

as Dr. Gordon Therberg

1935

1971

Revenge Is My Destiny

as Gregory Mann

1934

The President Vanishes

as D.L. Voorman

1933

The Wrecker

as Tom Cummings

1935

Streamline Express

as Gilbert Landon

1939

Fast and Loose

as "Lucky" Nolan

1930

Mothers Cry

as Mr. Gerald Hart

1940

Teddy the Rough Rider

as Theodore Roosevelt

1971

1939

Unmarried

as Cash Enright

1936

Woman Trap

as Riley Ferguson

1957

Tammy and the Bachelor

as Professor Brent

1935

Forced Landing

as Tony Bernardi

1935

Smart Girl

as Harry Courtland

1931

1930

The Bad Man

as Morgan Pell

1938

Straight, Place and Show

as 'Lucky' Braddock

1938

Speed to Burn

as Hastings

1941

Rookies on Parade

as Augustus Moody

1942

Sabotage Squad

as Carlyle Harrison

1939

Law of the Pampas

as Ralph Merritt

1937

This Is My Affair

as President Theodore Roosevelt

1943

In Old Oklahoma

as Teddy Roosevelt

1930

Strictly Modern

as Heath Desmond

1937

A Doctor's Diary

as Dr. Anson Ludlow

1940

Dance, Girl, Dance

as Puss in Boots

1941

Cheers for Miss Bishop

as John Stevens

1930

Sweethearts and Wives

as Anthony Peel

1935

1936

Early to Bed

as Rex Daniels

1936

Florida Special

as Jack Macklyn

1942

Obliging Young Lady

as Henry - George's Attorney

1959

What Makes Sammy Run?

as H.L. Harrington

1948

1937

Girl Overboard

as Alex LeMaire

1942

Gallant Lady

as Steve Carey

1931

Woman Hungry

as Geoffrey Brand

1938

Down on the Farm

as Political Boss

1942

March On, America!

as Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)

1929

A Most Immoral Lady

as Humphrey Sergeant

1937

Michael O'Halloran

as Jim Mintum

1958

Strange Witness

as Christopher

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