John Clements

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Gender: Male

Place of birth: London, England, UK

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Movie Involvements: 21

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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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Year	Character	Movie/Tv
1982	Advocate General	Gandhi 1982-11-30 Movie
1969	Gen. von Moltke	Oh! What a Lovely War 1969-03-10 Movie
1963	Major Hall	The Mind Benders 1963-02-01 Movie
1958	The Admiral	The Silent Enemy 1958-03-04 Movie
1949	Raymond Hillary	Train of Events 1949-01-18 Movie
1948	Julius Ikon	Call Of The Blood 1948-02-12 Movie
1944	Joe Dinmore	They Came to a City 1944-08-21 Movie
1943	Milos Petrovitch	Undercover 1943-07-26 Movie
	Jean Baptiste	Tomorrow We Live 1943-04-05 Movie
1941	Lt. Dick Stacey	Ships with Wings 1941-11-10 Movie
	John Rookeby	This England 1941-07-22 Movie
1940	Lieutenant Cranford	Convoy 1940-09-28 Movie
1939	Harry Faversham	The Four Feathers 1939-04-20 Movie
1938	Joe Astell	South Riding 1938-08-01 Movie
	Paul Huston, alias Truxa	Star Of The Circus 1938-01-01 Movie
1937	Poushkoff	Knight Without Armour 1937-07-23 Movie
1936	Govaert Flinck	Rembrandt 1936-11-06 Movie
	The Airman (uncredited)	Things to Come 1936-03-31 Movie
1935	Edward Teale	Once in a New Moon 1935-01-01 Movie
Year	Character	Movie/Tv