Sidney Blackmer
Acting
Born July 12, 1895 · Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
Biography
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…
Known For · 40 titles
The Rifleman
Robert Montgomery Presents
Matinee Theater
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
The Philco Television Playhouse
Climax!
Daniel Boone
Dr. Kildare
Thriller
Suspense
The Ed Sullivan Show
Ben Casey
Wanted: Dead or Alive
The Outer Limits
The Name of the Game
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Texan
The Ford Television Theatre
Lights Out
Armstrong Circle Theatre
Tales of Tomorrow
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Cain's Hundred
Rosemary's Baby
Target: The Corruptors!
Profiles in Courage
The Star and the Story
High Society
General Electric Theater
Duel in the Sun
Hallmark Hall of Fame
How to Murder Your Wife
Good-bye Love
Heidi
It's a Wonderful World
Tammy and the Bachelor
The High and the Mighty
Dance, Girl, Dance