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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as Gregory Mann
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as Roman Stepanak
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as Adams
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as Marvin Platt
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as Theodore Roosevelt
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as The Lover
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as Josephus Daniels
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as Eugene Fulton
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as Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
1944
as Press Agent
1943
as Teddy Roosevelt
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as Bergen
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as George Nevins
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as Martin Cleaver
1942
as Carlyle Harrison
1942
as Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)
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as Steve Carey
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as Henry - George's Attorney
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as Philip Ames
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as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
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as Arnold Milbar
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as Ellery Gibson
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as Blake Standish
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as Freddie Bond
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as Anthony Rhodes
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as Guy Barton
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as Lawyer George Renny
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as Augustus Moody
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as Dave Lennox
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as Mr. Wheeler
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as John Stevens
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as Hughie Wheeler
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as Erskine Brandon
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as Puss in Boots
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as Spencer Danfield
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as Tony Bowman
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as Theodore Roosevelt
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as Ralph Merritt
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as Theodore Roosevelt
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as McNeil
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as Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
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as Mann
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as Cash Enright
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as Al Mallon
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as George Demarest
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as 'Lucky' Nolan
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as Gregory Warren
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as Thomas Bruhme II
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as Ralph Simmons
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as Baron Orloff
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as Marquis Du Brey
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as Political Boss
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as 'Lucky' Braddock
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as Hastings
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as General Phil Sheridan
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as Herr Eric Koeger
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as Victor Karnoff
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as San Francisco Editor
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as Sesemann
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as Dr. Gordon Therberg
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as Walter Wiley
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as President Theodore Roosevelt
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as Jim Mintum
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as Rodney
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as Dr. Anson Ludlow
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as Alex LeMaire
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as Tom Starr
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as George Sartos
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as Dan Collins
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as Rex Daniels
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as Jack Macklyn
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as Riley Ferguson
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as Big John Trumbull
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as Tony Bernardi
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as Cedric McIntyre
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as Kenneth Alden
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as Bill Rhodes
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as Gilbert Landon
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as Harry Courtland
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as King Moss
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as John Hart
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as Raymond Cortell
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as Swazey
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as D.L. Voorman
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as Lee Lother
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as Mondego
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as Barry Forbes
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as Mort Holmes
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as Chester Hamilton
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as Martin Webster
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as Tom Cummings
1933
as William Lawton
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as Cliff Billings
1931
as Charles Townsend
1931
as Steve
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as Geoffrey Brand
1931
as Big Boy
1930
as Mr. Gerald Hart
1930
as Wazir Mansur
1930
as Morgan Pell
1930
as Self
1930
as Anthony Peel
1930
as Heath Desmond
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as Humphrey Sergeant