John Clements

Born: 1910-04-25

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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as Advocate General
Released: 1982-12-01

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes...

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Things to Come

as The Airman (uncredited)
Released: 1936-03-31

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a...

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The Four Feathers

as Harry Faversham
Released: 1939-04-20

A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.

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Oh! What a Lovely War

as Gen. von Moltke
Released: 1969-03-10

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys...

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Knight Without Armour

as Poushkoff
Released: 1937-07-23

British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution...

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Rembrandt

as Govaert Flinck
Released: 1936-11-06

A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid...

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The Silent Enemy

as The Admiral
Released: 1958-03-04

The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack...

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The Mind Benders

as Major Hall
Released: 1963-02-01

A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills...

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This England

as John Rookeby
Released: 1941-07-22

Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well...

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Undercover

as Milos Petrovitch
Released: 1943-07-26

Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the...

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Tomorrow We Live

as Jean Baptiste
Released: 1943-04-05

British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the...

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Train of Events

as Raymond Hillary
Released: 1949-01-18

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved,...

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Convoy

as Lieutenant Cranford
Released: 1940-09-28

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between...

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South Riding

as Joe Astell
Released: 1938-08-01

Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:-...

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They Came to a City

as Joe Dinmore
Released: 1944-08-21

People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city

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Once in a New Moon

as Edward Teale
Released: 1935-01-01

When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth,...

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Ships with Wings

as Lt. Dick Stacey
Released: 1941-11-10

Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working...

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