Clem Beauchamp
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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.)
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Movies (57)
Waterhole #3
1967 · Unit Production Manager
The Great Race
1965 · Unit Production Manager
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 · Production Manager
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961 · Production Manager
Inherit the Wind
1960 · Production Manager
The Defiant Ones
1958 · Production Manager
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
1953 · Production Manager
The Juggler
1953 · Production Manager
Eight Iron Men
1952 · Production Manager
High Noon
1952 · Production Supervisor
My Six Convicts
1952 · Production Manager
Death of a Salesman
1951 · Production Manager
Cyrano de Bergerac
1950 · Production Manager
The Men
1950 · Production Manager
Massacre River
1949 · Assistant Director
Home of the Brave
1949 · Production Manager
Champion
1949 · Production Manager
Tarzan and the Huntress
1947 · Production Manager
The Red House
1947 · Production Manager
Ding Dong Williams
1946 · Assistant Director
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
1946 · Unit Manager
Dick Tracy
1945 · Assistant Director
George White's Scandals
1945 · Assistant Director
Two O'Clock Courage
1945 · Assistant Director
Having Wonderful Crime
1945 · Assistant Director
Stage Door Canteen
1943 · Set Decoration
Inferior Decorator
1943 · Director
Tarzan Triumphs
1943 · Assistant Director
The Mayor of 44th Street
1942 · Assistant Director
The Falcon's Brother
1942 · Assistant Director
The Big Street
1942 · Assistant Director
Who's a Dummy?
1941 · Story
Unexpected Uncle
1941 · Assistant Director
The Gay Falcon
1941 · Assistant Director
Westward Ho-Hum
1941 · Story, Director
He Asked for It
1940 · Producer
Many Unhappy Returns
1937 · Associate Producer
The Last of the Mohicans
1936 · Assistant Director
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936 · Assistant Director
No More Ladies
1935 · Drunk (uncredited)
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1935 · Assistant Director
The Story of Temple Drake
1933 · Third Jellybean (uncredited)
The Painted Desert
1931 · Miner
Love a la Mode
1930
Look out Below
1929 · Jerry, the drunk (as Jerry Drew)
Power
1928 · The Menace (as Jerry Drew)
High Spots
1927 · The Nut
Jungle Heat
1927
Hot Lightning
1927 · Cyril - the Hotel Manager
Listen Lena
1927 · Cyril - Al's Rival, Director
High Sea Blues
1927
Flaming Romance
1926 · His Lieutenant
The Radio Bug
1926 · Claude McGurke
Who's My Wife?
1926 · The Drunk
Paths to Paradise
1925
Stupid, but Brave
1924 · Minor role (uncredited)
The Strange Adventures of Prince Courageous
1923 · Producer
TV shows (0)
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