Clem Beauchamp

Clem Beauchamp

Born: August 26, 1898
Died: November 14, 1992
in Bloomfield, Iowa, USA
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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 for Clem Beauchamp...

No More Ladies
Title: No More Ladies
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
Released: June 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
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The Story of Temple Drake
Title: The Story of Temple Drake
Character: Third Jellybean (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1933
Type: Movie
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
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The Painted Desert
Title: The Painted Desert
Character: Miner
Released: January 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?
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Love a la Mode
Title: Love a la Mode
Released: November 2, 1930
Type: Movie
The setting is a posh party at some mansion. Mr. Saunders wants time with his girlfriend so he can propose to her, but her bratty younger sister is always getting in the way. When a bond salesman arrives, Saunders convinces him to woo the sister. If he agrees and keeps her away, Saunders promises to buy a fortune in bonds.
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Look out Below
Title: Look out Below
Character: Jerry, the drunk (as Jerry Drew)
Released: August 17, 1929
Type: Movie
A Educational short where Robert Graves plays Thelma Todd's jealous husband.
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Power
Title: Power
Character: The Menace (as Jerry Drew)
Released: September 23, 1928
Type: Movie
Tale of a pair of dam workers who, despite their strong friendship, duke it out on a regular basis. But when the dam threatens to burst, the battling buddies work side by side to rescue the deluge-threatened townsfolk.
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Jungle Heat
Title: Jungle Heat
Released: April 24, 1927
Type: Movie
Two reel comedy starring Al St. John
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Hot Lightning
Title: Hot Lightning
Character: Cyril - the Hotel Manager
Released: March 6, 1927
Type: Movie
Life and activity at a hotel. Slapstick-style.
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Listen Lena
Title: Listen Lena
Character: Cyril - Al's Rival
Released: February 12, 1927
Type: Movie
Al St John loves Lena, but he also loves to sleep. Will he get out of bed soon enough to take Lena from his dull rival, so he can have an argument with the girl where he cries "LISTEN, LENA"? Or will he roll back over, and later get busted by a mean cop for sleepwalking in his bed clothes?
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The Radio Bug
Title: The Radio Bug
Character: Delivery Man
Released: September 12, 1926
Type: Movie
A homeowner takes delivery of his new radio. The crate is so big that the front door needs to be widened by about a yard. No problem when you've got a saw! In spite of the size of the crate, the radio turns out to be regular tabletop size. Further installation requires punching a big hole in the roof. That's when the downpour starts, filling the bungalow with water. Finally, the radio is working in spite of the torrent falling from the ceiling. The weather broadcast announces clear skies today. Let the fisticuffs commence!
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Paths to Paradise
Title: Paths to Paradise
Released: June 28, 1925
Type: Movie
Two thieves discover a professional and personal relationship when individual heist plans are thrown together by circumstance.
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Stupid, but Brave
Title: Stupid, but Brave
Character: Minor role (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1924
Type: Movie
Impoverished "bum" gets a close shave from a menacing barber, then gets tangled up with a banana king, escaped convicts and marathon runners.