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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.
The roles that explain the career.
71 credits across 1 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Rosemary's Baby | Roman Castevet | Film |
| 1965 | How to Murder Your Wife | Judge Blackstone | Film |
| 1965 | Joy in the Morning | Dean James Darwent | Film |
| 1957 | Tammy and the Bachelor | Professor Brent | Film |
| 1956 | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Austin Spencer | Film |
| 1956 | Accused of Murder | Frank Hobart | Film |
| 1956 | High Society | Seth Lord | Film |
| 1954 | The High and the Mighty | Humphrey Agnew | Film |
| 1954 | Johnny Dark | James Fielding | Film |
| 1952 | Washington Story | Philip Emery | Film |
| 1952 | The San Francisco Story | Andrew Cain | Film |
| 1951 | People Will Talk | Arthur Higgins | Film |
| 1951 | Saturday's Hero | T.C. McCabe | Film |
| 1948 | A Song Is Born | Adams | Film |
| 1946 | Duel in the Sun | The Lover | Film |
| 1944 | The Lady and the Monster | Eugene Fulton | Film |
| 1944 | Broadway Rhythm | Press Agent | Film |
| 1944 | Buffalo Bill | Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited) | Film |
| 1944 | Wilson | Josephus Daniels | Film |
| 1943 | Murder in Times Square | George Nevins | Film |
| 1943 | Quiet Please, Murder | Martin Cleaver | Film |
| 1943 | In Old Oklahoma | Teddy Roosevelt | Film |
| 1942 | Nazi Agent | Arnold Milbar | Film |
| 1942 | The Panther's Claw | Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt | Film |
| 1942 | Obliging Young Lady | Henry - George's Attorney | Film |
| 1942 | Always in My Heart | Philip Ames | Film |
| 1941 | Love Crazy | Lawyer George Renny | Film |
| 1941 | Murder Among Friends | Mr. Wheeler | Film |
| 1941 | Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime | Anthony Rhodes | Film |
| 1941 | Down Mexico Way | Ellery Gibson | Film |
| 1941 | The Feminine Touch | Freddie Bond | Film |
| 1941 | Cheers for Miss Bishop | John Stevens | Film |
| 1940 | Framed | Tony Bowman | Film |
| 1940 | Dance, Girl, Dance | Puss in Boots | Film |
| 1940 | Third Finger, Left Hand | Hughie Wheeler | Film |
| 1940 | Maryland | Spencer Danfield | Film |
| 1939 | It's a Wonderful World | Al Mallon | Film |
| 1939 | The Monroe Doctrine | Theodore Roosevelt | Film |
| 1939 | Convict's Code | Gregory Warren | Film |
| 1939 | Within the Law | George Demarest | Film |
| 1939 | Law of the Pampas | Ralph Merritt | Film |
| 1939 | Hotel for Women | McNeil | Film |
| 1939 | Fast and Loose | "Lucky" Nolan | Film |
| 1938 | In Old Chicago | General Phil Sheridan | Film |
| 1938 | While New York Sleeps | Ralph Simmons | Film |
| 1938 | Trade Winds | Thomas Bruhme II | Film |
| 1938 | Suez | Marquis Du Brey | Film |
| 1937 | This Is My Affair | President Theodore Roosevelt | Film |
| 1937 | The Last Gangster | San Francisco Editor | Film |
| 1937 | The Women Men Marry | Walter Wiley | Film |
| 1937 | Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo | Victor Karnoff | Film |
| 1937 | Thank You, Mr. Moto | Herr Eric Koeger | Film |
| 1937 | Heidi | Sesemann | Film |
| 1936 | The House of Secrets | Tom Starr | Film |
| 1936 | Missing Girls | Dan Collins | Film |
| 1936 | The President's Mystery | George Sartos | Film |
| 1936 | Heart of the West | Big John Trumbull | Film |
| 1935 | Streamline Express | Gilbert Landon | Film |
| 1935 | Behind the Green Lights | Raymond Cortell | Film |
| 1935 | The Little Colonel | Swazey | Film |
| 1935 | False Pretenses | Kenneth Alden | Film |
| 1935 | Shadows of the Orient | King Moss | Film |
| 1934 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Mondego | Film |
| 1934 | This Man Is Mine | Mort Holmes | Film |
| 1933 | Cocktail Hour | Lawton | Film |
| 1933 | Deluge | Martin Webster | Film |
| 1933 | Good-bye Love | Chester Hamilton | Film |
| 1933 | From Hell to Heaven | Cliff Billings | Film |
| 1931 | Little Caesar | Big Boy | Film |
| 1930 | Strictly Modern | Heath Desmond | Film |
| 1930 | The Bad Man | Morgan Pell | Film |
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