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John Clements

John Clements

Actor · Born 1910-04-25 · London, England, UK

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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…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Gandhi (1982) — Advocate General
  2. Things to Come (1936) — The Airman (uncredited)
  3. The Four Feathers (1939) — Harry Faversham
  4. Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) — Gen. von Moltke
  5. Rembrandt (1936) — Govaert Flinck
  6. The Mind Benders (1963) — Major Hall
  7. The Silent Enemy (1958) — The Admiral
  8. Knight Without Armour (1937) — Poushkoff
  9. Convoy (1940) — Lieutenant Cranford
  10. They Came to a City (1944) — Joe Dinmore
  11. Train of Events (1949) — Raymond Hillary
  12. Undercover (1943) — Milos Petrovitch
  13. South Riding (1938) — Joe Astell
  14. Tomorrow We Live (1943) — Jean Baptiste
  15. Once in a New Moon (1935) — Edward Teale
  16. I Remember Nelson (1982) — Sir William Hamilton
  17. Ships with Wings (1941) — Lt. Dick Stacey
  18. This England (1941) — John Rookeby
  19. Call Of The Blood (1948) — Julius Ikon
  20. Star of the Circus (1938) — Paul Huston, alias Truxa

Directed

  1. Call Of The Blood (1948) — Director