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.
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ActingBirthday
April 25, 1910Deathday
April 6, 1988Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
21Place of birth
London, England, UKCast credits
The Four Feathers
Harry FavershamOh! What a Lovely War
Gen. von MoltkeThe Silent Enemy
The AdmiralRembrandt
Govaert FlinckThe Mind Benders
Major HallConvoy
Lieutenant CranfordUndercover
Milos PetrovitchShips with Wings
Lt. Dick StaceyThey Came to a City
Joe DinmoreThis England
John RookebySouth Riding
Joe AstellTomorrow We Live
Jean BaptisteGandhi
Advocate GeneralKnight Without Armour
PoushkoffOnce in a New Moon
Edward TealeTrain of Events
Raymond HillaryThings to Come
The Airman (uncredited)