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Clem Beauchamp

Actor, Producer, Director, Additional Credits
Born August 26, 1898Died November 14, 1992 (94 years)
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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 girl Sydney Hein.

He went on to work on several Tarzan and Dick Tracy movies, eventually becoming a production manager. In this capacity, he worked on such films as Fred Zinnemann's The Men (1950) and High Noon (1952), Death of a Salesman (1951) and most of Stanley Kramer's best work, including The Defiant Ones (1958), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). He later worked on Blake Edwards' The Great Race (1965) and William A. Graham's Waterhole No. 3 (1967). He was also the production manager on The Adventures of Superman television series, starring George Reeves.

Beauchamp told The Literary Digest his name was pronounced "Bo-shawm, both syllables accented alike." (Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.)

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • The Red House
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Stage Door Canteen
  • The Last of the Mohicans
  • Dick Tracy
  • The Painted Desert

Known For

  • High Noon
  • Judgment at Nuremberg
  • It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
  • Inherit the Wind
  • The Defiant Ones
  • Champion
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
  • The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
  • The Red House
  • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  • Tarzan Triumphs
  • The Last of the Mohicans
  • The Big Street
  • Dick Tracy
  • Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
  • Tarzan and the Huntress
  • Two O'Clock Courage
  • The Gay Falcon
  • Death of a Salesman
  • The Falcon's Brother
  • The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
  • Waterhole #3
  • The Juggler
  • Home of the Brave

Filmography

1935
No More Ladies · as Drunk (uncredited)
1933
International House · as Newsreel Cameraman
1933
The Story of Temple Drake · as Third Jellybean (uncredited)
1933
Terror Aboard · as Seaman
1932
Hold 'Em Jail · as Trusty
1931
1929
Painted Faces · as Jury Member
1928
Power · as The Menace (as Jerry Drew)
1925

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