John Clements

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1910-04-25

Deathday 1988-04-06 (77 years old)

Place of Birth London, England, UK

John Clements

Biography

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.

Known For

Actor

1982
Gandhi

as Advocate General

1982
I Remember Nelson

as Sir William Hamilton

1969
Oh! What a Lovely War

as Gen. von Moltke

1963
The Mind Benders

as Major Hall

1958
The Silent Enemy

as The Admiral

1949
Train of Events

as Raymond Hillary

1948
Call Of The Blood

as Julius Ikon

1944
They Came to a City

as Joe Dinmore

1943
Undercover

as Milos Petrovitch

1943
Tomorrow We Live

as Jean Baptiste

1941
Ships with Wings

as Lt. Dick Stacey

1941
This England

as John Rookeby

1940
Convoy

as Lieutenant Cranford

1939
The Four Feathers

as Harry Faversham

1938
South Riding

as Joe Astell

1938
Star of the Circus

as Paul Huston, alias Truxa

1937
1936
Rembrandt

as Govaert Flinck

1936
Things to Come

as The Airman (uncredited)

1935
Once in a New Moon

as Edward Teale

Crew

1944
Candlelight in Algeria

as Additional Dialogue

Writer

1948

Director

1948
Call Of The Blood

as Director