Person Details

Birthday: 1898-08-26 11:22:08

Death: 1992-11-14 11:22:08

Aliases: Jerry Drew

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Bloomfield, Iowa, USA

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Movie Involvements: 41

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

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.)

Most Famous Work

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Average
7

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

(1963) Production Manager
High Noon
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8

High Noon

(1952) Production Supervisor
Judgment at Nuremberg
Average
8

Judgment at Nuremberg

(1961) Production Manager
The Great Race
Average
7

The Great Race

(1965) Unit Production Manager
Inherit the Wind
Average
8

Inherit the Wind

(1960) Production Manager
The Defiant Ones
Average
7

The Defiant Ones

(1958) Production Manager
The Last of the Mohicans
Average
7

The Last of the Mohicans

(1936) Assistant Director
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
Average
6

Tarzan and the Leopard Woman

(1946) Unit Manager

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1935 Drunk (uncredited)
1933 Third Jellybean (uncredited)
1931 Miner
1929 Jerry, the drunk (as Jerry Drew)
1928 The Menace (as Jerry Drew)
1927 N/A
Cyril - the Hotel Manager
Cyril - Al's Rival
1926 Delivery Man
1925 N/A
1924 Minor role (uncredited)
Year Character Movie/Tv

Production

Directing

Art

Year Role Movie/Tv
1943 Set Decoration
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1941 Story
Story
Year Role Movie/Tv

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