John Clements
Known For
Acting
Born
1910-04-25 in London, England, UK
Died
1988-04-06
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 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.
Most Known For
Convoy
as Lieutenant Cranford
Gandhi
as Advocate General
This England
as John Rookeby
Undercover
as Milos Petrovitch
Knight Without Armour
as Poushkoff
Things to Come
as The Airman (uncredited)
Rembrandt
as Govaert Flinck
The Four Feathers
as Harry Faversham
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Gen. von Moltke
The Silent Enemy
as The Admiral
The Mind Benders
as Major Hall
Train of Events
as Raymond Hillary
I Remember Nelson
as Sir William Hamilton
Ships with Wings
as Lt. Dick Stacey
South Riding
as Joe Astell
They Came to a City
as Joe Dinmore
Tomorrow We Live
as Jean Baptiste
Star of the Circus
as Paul Huston, alias Truxa
Once in a New Moon
as Edward Teale
Call Of The Blood
as Julius Ikon