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Sidney Blackmer
Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
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 fina…
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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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sidney Blackmer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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1971
Do You Take This Stranger?
Movie G.R. Jarvis
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1971
Revenge Is My Destiny
Movie Gregory Mann
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1968
The Name of the Game
TV show Roman Stepanak
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1968
Rosemary's Baby
Movie Roman Castevet
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1967
A Covenant with Death
Movie Col. Oates
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1966
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
TV show Professor Antrum
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1965
Joy in the Morning
Movie Dean James Darwent
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1965
How to Murder Your Wife
Movie Judge Blackstone
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1964
Profiles in Courage
TV show Oscar W. Underwood
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1964
Daniel Boone
TV show Jasper Ledbedder
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1963
The Outer Limits
TV show William Lyons Selby
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1962
Stampede at Bitter Creek
Movie Sam Underwood
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1961
Ben Casey
TV show
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1961
Target: The Corruptors!
TV show
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1961
Dr. Kildare
TV show Dr. Carleton Lantzinge
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1961
Cain's Hundred
TV show Joseph Callan
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1960
Thriller
TV show Edward Stapleton
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1959
What Makes Sammy Run?
Movie H.L. Harrington
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1958
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV show Woodson
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1958
The Rifleman
TV show
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1958
The Texan
TV show
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1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV show Judge Cooper
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1958
Strange Witness
Movie Christopher
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1957
Tammy and the Bachelor
Movie Professor Brent
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1956
Accused of Murder
Movie Frank Hobart
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1956
The Little Foxes
Movie Ben
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1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV show Judge Hanavan
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1956
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Movie Austin Spencer
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1956
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV show
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1956
High Society
Movie Seth Lord
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1955
The View from Pompey's Head
Movie Garvin Wales
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1955
Matinee Theater
TV show
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1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV show Frank Partridge
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1955
The Star and the Story
TV show
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1954
Climax!
TV show Prrof. Watson
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1954
The High and the Mighty
Movie Humphrey Agnew
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1954
Johnny Dark
Movie James Fielding
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1953
General Electric Theater
TV show Christopher
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1952
The Ford Television Theatre
TV show Wade Anthony
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1952
Washington Story
Movie Philip Emery
