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