About
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...
Known for
Matinee TheaterSeries • 1955
The RiflemanSeries • 1958
Dr. KildareSeries • 1961
Dick Powell's Zane Grey TheatreSeries • 1956
Robert Montgomery PresentsSeries • 1950
Climax!Series • 1954
Daniel BooneSeries • 1964
The Philco Television PlayhouseSeries • 1948
Ben CaseySeries • 1961
Wanted: Dead or AliveSeries • 1958
The Name of the GameSeries • 1968
Alfred Hitchcock PresentsSeries • 1955
ThrillerSeries • 1960
The Outer LimitsSeries • 1963
SuspenseSeries • 1949
Armstrong Circle TheatreSeries • 1950
The Ford Television TheatreSeries • 1952
Lights OutSeries • 1949
The TexanSeries • 1958
Westinghouse Desilu PlayhouseSeries • 1958
The Adventures of Jim BowieSeries • 1956
Rosemary's BabyMovie • 1968
Tales of TomorrowSeries • 1951
Cain's HundredSeries • 1961