Claude Jarman junior

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Claude Jarman Jr. (1949)

Claude Jarman junior (born September 27, 1934 in Nashville , Tennessee ) is a former American film actor .

Life

Claude Jarman, the son of an accountant for the railroad, was one of the kids who rose to fame overnight in Hollywood . When he was ten years old and went to the fifth grade, Jarman was after a nationwide casting call for the film The Yearling (The Yearling) committed. In the film, he is seen as the son of a farmer couple (played by Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman ) who are tending a fawn, directed by Clarence Brown . For his work in film, Jarman received excellent reviews from film critics and in 1947 the Juvenile Award , a special award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for child actors, which is equivalent to the Oscar .

His family, who moved to Hollywood after their son's success , invested heavily in building him up as a star and had him teach at MGM's private school . Some big roles followed, for example he played the leading role in the William Faulkner filming Griff in den Staub (1949) and played the son of John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara , who joined as a recruit , in the Western Rio Grande (1950) reports to his father's troops. But the success that Jarman had in the first five years of his acting career did not last long. Already at the beginning of the 1950s, when Jarman came of age, the film offerings quickly decreased until they came to a standstill in 1956. The Jarman family then moved back to Nashville, where he attended Vanderbilt University . After his military service in the United States Navy , Jarman tried again as an actor at the beginning of the 1960s, without being able to build on old successes.

Claude Jarman then switched to public relations and worked for the Amway group. He served as director of film festivals , including the San Francisco International Film Festival between 1965 and 1980, and was also temporarily director of the San Francisco Opera . In 1972 he was the producer of the documentary Fillmore , in 1979 he starred in the television series Colorado Saga . Today Jarman occasionally makes public appearances, for example at presentations of his old films or as a guest at the 2003 Academy Awards .

Claude Jarman has been married for the third time since 1985. From his three marriages he is the father of seven children, five daughters and two sons. In 2018 he published his autobiography My Life and the Final Days of Hollywood .

Filmography

  • 1946: The Wilderness Calls ( The Yearling )
  • 1947: High Barbaree
  • 1949: The Sun Comes Up
  • 1949: Roughshod
  • 1949: Intruder in the Dust ( Intruder in the Dust )
  • 1950: Bloody Dust ( The Outriders )
  • 1950: Rio Grande ( Rio Grande )
  • 1951: Inside Straight
  • 1952: Gold robbery in Texas ( Hangmans knott )
  • 1953: The Rebel of Java ( Fair Wind to Java )
  • 1956: On a Secret Mission ( The Great Locomotive Chase )
  • 1959: Wagon Train (TV series, an episode)
  • 1960: The Best of the Post (TV series, one episode)
  • 1972: Fillmore (as producer)
  • 1979: Colorado Saga (TV series, episode)

Award

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Newspaper article
  2. ↑ Tom Goldrup, Jim Goldrup: Growing Up on the Set: Interviews with 39 Former Child Actors of Classic Film and Television . McFarland, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4766-1370-3 ( google.de [accessed December 26, 2018]).
  3. Jump up ↑ 2003 Academy Awards , Claude Jarman Jr. at 6:15 am
  4. ↑ IMDb biography of Claude Jarman Jr.
  5. ^ Claude Jarman - My Life and the Final Days of Hollywood (Corte Madera Store). Accessed December 26, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Jarman, Claude junior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jarman, Claude Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Nashville , Tennessee , USA