John Clements
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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.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.821 |
Birthday | 1910-04-25 |
Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
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1939
The Four Feathers
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A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
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The Four Feathers
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Oh! What a Lovely War
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Oh! What a Lovely War
1958
The Silent Enemy
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The Silent Enemy
1936
Rembrandt
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Rembrandt
1963
The Mind Benders
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The Mind Benders
1940
Convoy
5.4/14
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
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Convoy
1943
Undercover
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Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope...
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Undercover
1944
They Came to a City
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They Came to a City
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Ships with Wings
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Ships with Wings
1941
This England
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This England
1938
South Riding
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1943
Tomorrow We Live
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Tomorrow We Live
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Gandhi
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Gandhi
1937
Knight Without Armour
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Knight Without Armour
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Once in a New Moon
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Once in a New Moon
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Train of Events
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Train of Events
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Things to Come
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Star of the Circus
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English-language version or remake of the German film, TRUXA (1937).
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Call Of The Blood
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