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John Clements

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Clements, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Personal information

Birthday

1910-04-25

Birth Place

London, England, UK

Movies and TV shows :

Call Of The Blood

Call Of The Blood

1948

0.0

Movie
Convoy

Convoy

1940

5.4

Movie
Gandhi

Gandhi

1982

7.6

Movie
poster

I Remember Nelson

1982

4.0

TV
Knight Without Armour

Knight Without Armour

1937

5.6

Movie
Oh! What a Lovely War

Oh! What a Lovely War

1969

6.6

Movie
Once in a New Moon

Once in a New Moon

1935

6.6

Movie
Rembrandt

Rembrandt

1936

6.7

Movie
Ships with Wings

Ships with Wings

1941

4.0

Movie
South Riding

South Riding

1938

6.2

Movie
Star of the Circus

Star of the Circus

1938

2.0

Movie
The Four Feathers

The Four Feathers

1939

7.0

Movie
The Mind Benders

The Mind Benders

1963

6.3

Movie
The Silent Enemy

The Silent Enemy

1958

5.4

Movie
They Came to a City

They Came to a City

1944

6.0

Movie
Things to Come

Things to Come

1936

6.4

Movie
This England

This England

1941

6.2

Movie
Tomorrow We Live

Tomorrow We Live

1943

6.0

Movie
Train of Events

Train of Events

1949

6.2

Movie
Undercover

Undercover

1943

5.8

Movie