John Clements

John Clements

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Clements, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: John Clements
  • Popularity: 1.438
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1910-04-25
  • Place of Birth: London, England, UK
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John Clements Movies

  • 1939
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    The Four Feathers

    The Four Feathers

    7 1939 HD

    A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.

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  • 1969
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    Oh! What a Lovely War

    Oh! What a Lovely War

    6.6 1969 HD

    The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench...

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  • 1958
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    The Silent Enemy

    The Silent Enemy

    5.4 1958 HD

    The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to...

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  • 1948
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    Call Of The Blood

    Call Of The Blood

    1 1948 HD

    A young man's passions are stirred by a beautiful Sicilian after his physician-wife is called away on an emergency.

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  • 1936
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    Rembrandt

    Rembrandt

    6.682 1936 HD

    A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife,...

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  • 1963
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    The Mind Benders

    The Mind Benders

    6.3 1963 HD

    A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might...

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  • 1943
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    Undercover

    Undercover

    5.75 1943 HD

    Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope...

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  • 1941
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    Ships with Wings

    Ships with Wings

    4 1941 HD

    Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade...

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  • 1944
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    They Came to a City

    They Came to a City

    6 1944 HD

    People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city

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  • 1941
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    This England

    This England

    6.2 1941 HD

    Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans,...

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  • 1940
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    Convoy

    Convoy

    5.4 1940 HD

    A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

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  • 1938
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    South Riding

    South Riding

    6.2 1938 HD

    Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity...

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  • 1943
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    Tomorrow We Live

    Tomorrow We Live

    6 1943 HD

    British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French Resistance and the Nazi tactic of taking and...

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  • 1982
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    Gandhi

    Gandhi

    7.6 1982 HD

    In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian...

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  • 1937
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    Knight Without Armour

    Knight Without Armour

    5.6 1937 HD

    British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he...

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  • 1935
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    Once in a New Moon

    Once in a New Moon

    6.6 1935 HD

    When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government...

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  • 1949
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    Train of Events

    Train of Events

    6.2 1949 HD

    A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

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  • 1936
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    Things to Come

    Things to Come

    6.4 1936 HD

    The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space...

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  • 1938
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    Star of the Circus

    Star of the Circus

    2 1938 HD

    English-language version or remake of the German film, TRUXA (1937).

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  • 1944
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    Candlelight in Algeria

    Candlelight in Algeria

    5.7 1944 HD

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  • 1948
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    Call Of The Blood

    Call Of The Blood

    1 1948 HD

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  • 1948
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    Call Of The Blood

    Call Of The Blood

    1 1948 HD

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  • 1982
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    I Remember Nelson

    I Remember Nelson

    4 1982 HD

    Worshipped as a national savior, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson masterminded the naval victories that thwarted Napoleon's plans to invade Britain. Yet,...

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