1. Sidney Alderman Blackmer was an American Broadway and film actor active between 1914 and 1971, usually in major supporting roles.
10 Facts About Sidney Blackmer
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Sidney Blackmer started in the insurance and financial counseling business but abandoned it.
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Sidney Blackmer attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Sidney Blackmer had a role in the highly popular serial The Perils of Pauline, his film debut.
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Sidney Blackmer won the 1950 Tony Award for Best Actor for his role in the Broadway play Come Back, Little Sheba, co-starring with Shirley Booth.
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In film, Sidney Blackmer had a role as the conniving Manhattan warlock Roman Castevet in the guise of one of many overly solicitous elderly neighbors of the pregnant titular character in the Academy Award-winning 1968 Roman Polanski film, Rosemary's Baby.
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Sidney Blackmer helped found the North Carolina School of the Arts.
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On his death in 1973, Sidney Blackmer was interred in the Chestnut Hill Cemetery in his hometown of Salisbury, North Carolina.
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Sidney Blackmer appeared in television roles, such as Don't Come Back Alive episode of the 1955 TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and "The Premature Burial" episode of the 1961 TV series Thriller.
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Sidney Blackmer guest starred twice in the western TV series Bonanza in the episodes "The Dream Riders" and "The Late Ben Cartwright".