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Sidney Blackmer
Actor 1895 - 1973

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 financial business but gave up on it. While working as a builder's laborer on a new building, he saw a... Read full bio →

Filmography

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Rosemary's Baby

Rosemary's Baby

Roman Polanski 1968 2h 18m 8.0

Rosemary’s Baby is a classic physiological horror film from Roman Polanski about a young couple who move into a New York apartment to start a family and have a baby. Things soon turn ugly as Rosemary believes her baby isn’t safe around their strange neighbors.

How to Murder Your Wife

How to Murder Your Wife

Richard Quine 1965 1h 58m 6.3

Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles.

Tammy and the Bachelor

Tammy and the Bachelor

Joseph Pevney 1957 1h 29m 6.0

An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman.

High Society

High Society

Charles Walters 1956 1h 52m 6.0

Childhood friends Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven got married and quickly divorced. Now Tracy is about to marry again, this time to a shrewd social-climbing businessman. Bing still loves her. Spy magazine blackmails Grace's family by threatening to reveal her playboy father's exploits if not allowed to cover the wedding.

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Fritz Lang 1956 1h 20m 7.2

A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer.

Accused of Murder

Accused of Murder

Joseph Kane 1956 1h 14m 6.0

A police detective finds himself entangled in the web of the underworld when he falls in love with a nightclub singer accused of murdering a crooked lawyer.

The High and the Mighty

The High and the Mighty

William A. Wellman 1954 2h 27m 6.7

Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.

People Will Talk

People Will Talk

Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1951 1h 50m 8.0

Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson.

A Song Is Born

A Song Is Born

Howard Hawks 1948 1h 53m 6.0

The story of seven scholars (including Danny Kaye and Benny Goodman) in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson (Virginia Mayo). But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up.

Duel in the Sun

Duel in the Sun

King Vidor 1946 2h 24m 7.5
Wilson

Wilson

Henry King 1944 2h 34m

The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States.

Buffalo Bill

Buffalo Bill

William A. Wellman 1944 1h 30m 6.7

Scout William F. Cody (Joel McCrea) marries a U.S. senator's daughter (Maureen O'Hara), fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.

In Old Oklahoma

In Old Oklahoma

Albert S. Rogell 1943 1h 42m 6.0

Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Cathy Allen.

I Escaped from the Gestapo

I Escaped from the Gestapo

Harold Young 1943 1h 15m

A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.

The Panther's Claw

The Panther's Claw

William Beaudine 1942 1h 10m

Members of an opera company are being blackmailed by someone called the Black Panther.

Quiet Please: Murder

Quiet Please: Murder

John Francis Larkin 1942 1h 10m

A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.

Love Crazy

Love Crazy

Jack Conway 1941 1h 39m

William Powell and Myrna Loy are a couple whose marriage is on the verge of being broken up by his old girlfriend and her disapproving mother.

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

James P. Hogan 1941 1h 8m

Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed to death. Ellery Queen gets to the bottom of the mystery.

Cheers for Miss Bishop

Cheers for Miss Bishop

Tay Garnett 1941 1h 35m

Dedicated Midwestern teacher Ella Bishop is distressed when her fiancé runs off with her vixenish cousin Amy. After Amy dies in childbirth, Ella is left to care for Amy's daughter Hope.

Dance, Girl, Dance

Dance, Girl, Dance

Dorothy Arzner 1940 1h 30m 5.5

Judy O'Brien (Maureen O'Hara) is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles (Lucille Ball), a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.

Law of the Pampas

Law of the Pampas

Nate Watt 1939 1h 12m

Hoppy and Lucky are headed to South America to deliver a heard of cattle. Bay guy Ralph Merritt gets in their way. For a while.

It's a Wonderful World

It's a Wonderful World

W.S. Van Dyke 1939 1h 26m 7.3

Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.

Convict's Code

Convict's Code

Lambert Hillyer 1939 1h 2m 5.0

A man is framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. When he is let out on limited parole, he sets out to clear his name and find the real criminals.

Suez

Suez

Allan Dwan 1938 1h 44m 7.0

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.

The Last Gangster

The Last Gangster

Edward Ludwig 1937 1h 21m 7.0

A gangster is jailed for ten years after his wife becomes pregnant. He becomes bitter when she divorces him and remarries.

Thank You, Mr. Moto

Thank You, Mr. Moto

Norman Foster 1937 1h 7m 8.0

Seven maps, when found and put together, reveal the location of the treasures of Genghis Khan.

In Old Chicago

In Old Chicago

Henry King 1937 1h 51m 7.0

The O'Leary brothers--honest Jack and roguish Dion--become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.

Heidi

Heidi

Allan Dwan 1937 1h 28m 7.0

Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love.

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo

Eugene Forde 1937 1h 11m 4.0

Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chan's in a web of blackmail and murder.

The House of Secrets

The House of Secrets

Roland D. Reed 1936 1h 10m

Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.

Heart of the West

Heart of the West

Howard Bretherton 1936 1h 3m

Problems come in the form of one of Hopalong Cassidy's neighbors, but the matter is settled when Hoppy roots out the troublemaker.

The Little Colonel

The Little Colonel

David Butler 1935 1h 20m 6.0

In the post-Civil war south, a darling little girl attempts to restore the peace between her parents and her plantation owner grandfather.

Streamline Express

Streamline Express

Leonard Fields 1935 1h 11m 6.0

A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.

Behind the Green Lights

Behind the Green Lights

Christy Cabanne 1935 1h 8m

A police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked criminal lawyer (Sidney Blackmer).

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo

Rowland V. Lee 1934 1h 53m

After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to revenge himself on them.

Good-bye Love

Good-bye Love

H. Bruce Humberstone 1933 1h 7m 4.0

A sexy golddigger lands who she thinks is a wealthy big-game hunter from a royal family. What she doesn't know is that not only is he not wealthy, nor a big-game hunter nor from a royal family, but he's only a butler. Complications ensue as he tries to keep up the pretense.

Deluge

Deluge

Felix E. Feist 1933 1h 10m 5.7

A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massive flood that threatens to destroy the East Coast as well.

Little Caesar

Little Caesar

Mervyn LeRoy 1931 1h 18m 7.7

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

Mothers Cry

Mothers Cry

Hobart Henley 1930 1h 16m 6.0

A widowed mother must struggle to raise her four children. She insists that the youngest of them, who turns out to be a gifted architect, must leave the family in order to save his career and to avoid a scandal.

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