Clem Beauchamp
Clement "Clem" Hoyt Beauchamp (* 26. August 1898 in Bloomfield , Iowa ; † 14. November 1992 in Santa Rosa , California ) was an American film actor , production manager and assistant director , who at the Oscar ceremony in 1936 the Oscar for Best Director Assistant received.
Life
Beauchamp began in the mid-1920s as an actor in the Hollywood film industry in the short film Stupid, But Brave (1924) and worked under his pseudonym "Jerry Drew" until 1935 in forty films. He then took up his work as an assistant director and received the Oscar for best assistant director in 1936 for his debut Bengali (1935) together with Paul Wing . At the Academy Awards in 1937 he was nominated for an Oscar in this category, namely for Der Last of the Mohicans (1936). He was the only assistant director who received this Oscar, which was only awarded for a few years, and was nominated again. As an assistant director he was involved in the production of more than twenty films such as Tarzan and the Nazis (1942) and The Mayor of 44th Street (1942), with which RKO Pictures promoted his transition from short to feature-length films.
After the Second World War , he worked primarily as a production manager in the film productions of Stanley Kramer and Sol Lesser and as such helped in the creation of films such as Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946), Tarzan is hunted (1947), Between Women and Ropes (1949) ), Twelve Noon (1952), The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953), The Judgment of Nuremberg (1961), A total, totally crazy world (1963) and What did you do in the war, Daddy? (1966).
Over the course of his career, Beauchamp, who was temporarily married to actress Anita Garvin , worked with film directors such as Henry Hathaway , Kurz Neumann , Wilhelm Thiele , Blake Edwards , Roy Rowland , Mark Robson and Fred Zinnemann .
Filmography (selection)
- Assistant director
- 1935: Bengali ( The Lives of a Bengal Lancer )
- 1936: The Last of the Mohicans ( The Last of the Mohicans )
- 1942: Tarzan and the Nazis ( Tarzan Triumphs )
- 1942: The Mayor of 44th Street
- actor
- 1935: No More Ladies
Web links
- Clem Beauchamp in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Mayor of 44th Street Notes at TCM - Turner Classic Movies (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beauchamp, Clem |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beauchamp, Clement Hoyt (full name); Beauchamp, Clem Hoyt (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American assistant director and film actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bloomfield , Iowa |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 1992 |
| Place of death | Santa Rosa , California |