Clem Beauchamp, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Clem Beauchamp

American actor

Date of Birth: 26-Aug-1898

Place of Birth: Iowa, United States

Date of Death: 14-Nov-1992

Profession: actor, film director, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Clem Beauchamp

  • Clement Hoyt "Clem" Beauchamp (August 26, 1898 – November 14, 1992), also known as Jerry Drew in his acting career during the 1920s and 1930s, first worked as a second unit director in 1935, netting the Academy Award for Best Assistant Director for his work on The Lives of a Bengal Lancer.
  • He was nominated in the same category the following year for The Last of the Mohicans. Born in Bloomfield, Iowa, Beauchamp was one of two sons of Charles and Ula Beauchamp.
  • His father was a druggist.
  • The family later moved to Denver, Colorado and then to Fort Worth, Texas.
  • After his parents divorced, his mother took her sons to Los Angeles, California where Beauchamp started working in motion pictures at age 16 as a stuntman.
  • His first known film is Stupid, But Brave.
  • He would later appear in The Painted Desert, sharing screen time with Clark Gable and William Boyd.
  • In 1933, he appeared in the W.C.
  • Fields comedy International House, in a non-credited part as a newsreel cameraman. From 1926 to 1930, Beauchamp was married to actress and comedian Anita Garvin, who is best remembered for the 11 films she made with comedians Laurel and Hardy.
  • In 1935, he married script girl Sydney Hein. He went on to work on several Tarzan and Dick Tracy movies, eventually becoming a production manager.
  • In this capacity, he worked on such films as Fred Zinnemann's The Men (1950) and High Noon (1952), Death of a Salesman (1951) and most of Stanley Kramer's best work, including The Defiant Ones (1958), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).
  • He later worked on Blake Edwards' The Great Race (1965) and William A.
  • Graham's Waterhole No.
  • 3 (1967). He was also the production manager on The Adventures of Superman television series, starring George Reeves. Beauchamp told The Literary Digest his name was pronounced "Bo-shawm, both syllables accented alike." (Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.)

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