Sidney Blackmer
Gender: Male
Born: 13th July 1895
Died: 6th October 1973
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: Deluge, People Will Talk, Kismet, Woman Hungry, Rosemary's Baby, The Bad Man, In Old Oklahoma, Heidi, Thank You, Mr. Moto, The Fire Trap, Goodbye Love, The Panther's Claw, Teddy, the Rough Rider, Duel in the Sun, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, The High and the Mighty, High Society, The Little Colonel, Charlie Chan's Secret, Love Crazy, In Old Chicago, Cheers for Miss Bishop, Tammy and the Bachelor, False Pretenses, The San Francisco Story, Revenge Is My Destiny, Little Caesar, How to Murder Your Wife, Missing Girls, Great God Gold, Shadows of the Orient, Down Mexico Way, Accused of Murder, The President's Mystery, The Lady and the Monster, It's a Wise Child, Down to Their Last Yacht, The Feminine Touch, The Women Men Marry, Fast and Loose, Within the Law
Sidney Alderman Blackmer (July 13, 1895 – October 6, 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. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 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
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