Clem Beauchamp

Clem Beauchamp

Known For: Directing

Date Of Birth:1898-08-26

Place Of Birth:Bloomfield, Iowa, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Clement Hoyt "Clem" Beauchamp (August 26, 1898 – November 14, 1992), also known as Jerry Drew in his 20s and early 30s acting career, 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. Beauchamp had a short-lived marriage to actress and comedian Anita Garvin, who is best remembered for the eleven 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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The Great Race
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Having Wonderful Crime
Unexpected Uncle
The Mayor of 44th Street
The Big Street
The Falcon's Brother
Two O'Clock Courage
Ding Dong Williams
Cyrano de Bergerac
Tarzan Triumphs
Westward Ho-Hum
Waterhole #3
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
Who's a Dummy?
Judgment at Nuremberg
Inherit the Wind
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
The Men
High Noon
The Defiant Ones
Champion
Westward Ho-Hum
The Last of the Mohicans
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Massacre River
Tarzan and the Huntress
My Six Convicts
Death of a Salesman
Many Unhappy Returns
The Strange Adventures of Prince Courageous
Stage Door Canteen
The Gay Falcon
George White's Scandals
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Red House
Home of the Brave
Eight Iron Men
The Juggler
Dick Tracy