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Sidney Alderman Blackmer (Salisbury, Carolina del Nord, 13 de juliol de 1895 - Nova York, 6 d’octubre de 1973) va ser un actor de cinema i Broadway nord-americà actiu entre 1914 i 1971, normalment en papers secundaris importants.

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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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Sidney Alderman Blackmer (* 13. Juli 1895 in Salisbury, North Carolina; † 6. Oktober 1973 in New York City, New York) war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler.

Seine Filmkarriere begann nach Einführung des Tonfilms. In den ersten Jahren wurde er sehr häufig für Schurkenrollen besetzt (beispielsweise in Der kleine Cäsar unter der Regie von Mervyn LeRoy), in den späteren Jahren war er auch häufiger im Charakterfach zu sehen. Seine Paraderolle auf der Bühne und im Film war der US-amerikanische Präsident Theodore Roosevelt, den er zehnmal verkörperte. Eine seiner letzten Filmrollen wurde zugleich eine seiner bekanntesten, nämlich die des satanistischen Nachbarn Roman Castevet in dem Horrorfilm Rosemaries Baby. Insgesamt war er in etwa 175 Film- und Fernsehproduktionen zu sehen, zuletzt im Jahr 1971.

1950 wurde er mit dem Tony Award als Bester Darsteller für seinen Auftritt im Broadway-Stück Come Back, Little Sheba von William Inge ausgezeichnet. 1960 erhielt Blackmer einen Stern auf dem Hollywood Walk of Fame. 1968 wurde er vom Kansas City Film Critics Circle für seine Rolle in Rosemaries Baby als Bester Nebendarsteller ausgezeichnet.

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