John Clements

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25 april 1910 — 6 april 1988 (77 år)
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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.

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    Tiden skola komma1936

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  • De 4 fjädrarna
    De 4 fjädrarna1939
  • They Came to a City
    They Came to a City1944
  • Farlig hjärntvätt
    Farlig hjärntvätt1963
  • Öga för öga
    Öga för öga1943
  • Konvoj
    Konvoj1940
  • Den tysta fienden
    Den tysta fienden1958
  • Underground Guerrillas
    Underground Guerrillas1943
  • En riddare utan rustning
    En riddare utan rustning1937
  • Signal från Cap Hazard
    Signal från Cap Hazard1944
  • Once in a New Moon
    Once in a New Moon1935
  • I Remember Nelson
    I Remember Nelson4 episodes
  • Kärlekens ö
    Kärlekens ö1948
  • ITV Saturday Night Theatre
    ITV Saturday Night Theatre4 seasons

Filmography

1982
Gandhi · as Advocate General
1982
I Remember Nelson · as Sir William Hamilton
1969
Oh! What a Lovely War · as Gen. Von Moltke
1963
The Mind Benders · as Major Hall
1960
BBC Sunday-Night Play · as Sir Lewis Eliot
1958
The Silent Enemy · as The Admiral
1957
Theatre Night · as Charles Yeyder
1955
ITV Play of the Week · as Cdr. Edward Ferrers
1955
ITV Television Playhouse · as Sir Keith Albury
1950
Sunday Night Theatre · as Arnold Holt
1949
Train of Events · as Raymond Hillary
1948
Call of the Blood · as Julius Ikon
1944
They Came to a City · as Joe Dinmore
1943
Underground Guerrillas · as Milos Petrovitch
1942
Tomorrow We Live · as Jean Baptiste
1941
Ships with Wings · as Lt. Dick Stacey
1941
This England · as John Rookeby
1940
Convoy · as Lieutenant Cranford
1939
The Four Feathers · as Harry Faversham
1938
South Riding · as Joe Astell
1938
Housemaster · as Undetermined Minor Role
1937
Knight Without Armor · as Poushkoff
1936
Rembrandt · as Govaert Flinck
1936
Things to Come · as The Airman (uncredited)På Plex
1934
Once in a New Moon · as Edward Teale

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