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person_profile-John Clements

John Clements Died at age: 77

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

John Clements

Date of Birth:

Apr 25, 1910

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Apr 06, 1988

Biography of

John Clements

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Sir John Selby Clements, CBE (25 April 1910 – 6 April 1988) was an English actor and producer who worked in theatre, television and film.

    Clements attended St Paul's School and St John's College, Cambridge University then worked with Nigel Playfair and afterwards spent a few years in Ben Greet's Shakespearean Company. He made his first stage appearance in 1930. Clements founded the Intimate Theatre at Palmers Green in 1935, which is a combined repertory and try-out theatre. He appeared in almost 200 plays, and presented a number of plays in the West End as actor-manager-producer. He also started his film work in 1933. Clements was the artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theatre from 1966 to 1973.

    He married the actress Kay Hammond and together they became a critical success on stage with their West End revival of Noel Coward's play Private Lives in 1945. In 1952 they both appeared in Clements' own play The Happy Marriage, an adaptation of Jean-Bernard Luc's Le Complexe de Philemon. Clements starred as Edward Moutlon Barrett in the musical Robert and Elizabeth, a successful adaptation of The Barretts of Wimpole Street. His stepson is the actor John Standing.

    As a film actor John Clements came to prominence when the film director Victor Saville chose him to star opposite Ralph Richardson in South Riding (1938). The two actors were reunited in the very successful The Four Feathers (1939). After this Clements' film career was somewhat intermittent although he made a series of British war films for Ealing Studios and British Aviation Pictures, such as Convoy (1940), Ships with Wings (1942), Tomorrow We Live (1943), and as Yugoslav guerrilla leader Milosh Petrovitch in Undercover (1943). He had a cameo role (as Advocate General) in Gandhi (1982).

    Clements was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1956 and knighted in 1968.

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Filmography of

John Clements

Found 17 Movies in total

Gandhi

Advocate General ( Actor )

... 1982

Oh! What a Lovely War

Gen. von Moltke ( Actor )

... 1969

The Mind Benders

Major Hall ( Actor )

... 1963

The Silent Enemy

The Admiral ( Actor )

... 1958

Train of Events

Raymond Hillary ( Actor )

... 1949

They Came to a City

Joe Dinmore ( Actor )

... 1944

Undercover

Milos Petrovitch ( Actor )

... 1943

Tomorrow We Live

Jean Baptiste ( Actor )

... 1943

Ships with Wings

Lt. Dick Stacey ( Actor )

... 1941

This England

John Rookeby ( Actor )

... 1941

Convoy

Lieutenant Cranford ( Actor )

... 1940

The Four Feathers

Harry Faversham ( Actor )

... 1939

South Riding

Joe Astell ( Actor )

... 1938

Knight Without Armour

Poushkoff ( Actor )

... 1937

Rembrandt

Govaert Flinck ( Actor )

... 1936

Things to Come

The Airman (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1936

Once in a New Moon

Edward Teale ( Actor )

... 1935