Clem Beauchamp

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 …

Directed

1. Listen Lena (1927) — Director
2. Westward Ho-Hum (1941) — Director
3. Inferior Decorator (1943) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Story of Temple Drake (1933) — Third Jellybean (uncredited)
2. The Painted Desert (1931) — Miner
3. Paths to Paradise (1925)
4. No More Ladies (1935) — Drunk (uncredited)
5. Look out Below (1929) — Jerry, the drunk (as Jerry Drew)
6. Listen Lena (1927) — Cyril - Al's Rival
7. Power (1928) — The Menace (as Jerry Drew)
8. Stupid, but Brave (1924) — Minor role (uncredited)
9. Jungle Heat (1927)
10. Love a la Mode (1930)
11. High Sea Blues (1927)
12. Hot Lightning (1927) — Cyril - the Hotel Manager
13. The Radio Bug (1926) — Claude McGurke
14. Who's My Wife? (1926) — The Drunk
15. High Spots (1927) — The Nut
16. Flaming Romance (1926) — His Lieutenant