Clem Beauchamp

Known For

Directing

Born

Aug 26, 1898

Died

Nov 14, 1992

Place of Birth

Bloomfield, Iowa, USA

Credits

57 titles

Clem Beauchamp

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.)

Known For

Filmography

1967

Waterhole #3

Unit Production Manager

Movie
1965

The Great Race

Unit Production Manager

Movie
1963

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Production Manager

Movie
1961

Judgment at Nuremberg

Production Manager

Movie
1960

Inherit the Wind

Production Manager

Movie
1958

The Defiant Ones

Production Manager

Movie
1953

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

Production Manager

Movie
1953

The Juggler

Production Manager

Movie
1952

Eight Iron Men

Production Manager

Movie
1952

High Noon

Production Supervisor

Movie
1952

My Six Convicts

Production Manager

Movie
1951

Death of a Salesman

Production Manager

Movie
1950

Cyrano de Bergerac

Production Manager

Movie
1950

The Men

Production Manager

Movie
1949

Massacre River

Assistant Director

Movie
1949

Home of the Brave

Production Manager

Movie
1949

Champion

Production Manager

Movie
1947

Tarzan and the Huntress

Production Manager

Movie
1947

The Red House

Production Manager

Movie
1946

Ding Dong Williams

Assistant Director

Movie
1946

Tarzan and the Leopard Woman

Unit Manager

Movie
1945

Dick Tracy

Assistant Director

Movie
1945

George White's Scandals

Assistant Director

Movie
1945

Two O'Clock Courage

Assistant Director

Movie
1945

Having Wonderful Crime

Assistant Director

Movie
1943

Stage Door Canteen

Set Decoration

Movie
1943

Inferior Decorator

Director

Movie
1943

Tarzan Triumphs

Assistant Director

Movie
1942

The Mayor of 44th Street

Assistant Director

Movie
1942

The Falcon's Brother

Assistant Director

Movie
1942

The Big Street

Assistant Director

Movie
1941

Who's a Dummy?

Story

Movie
1941

Unexpected Uncle

Assistant Director

Movie
1941

The Gay Falcon

Assistant Director

Movie
1941

Westward Ho-Hum

Story

Movie
1940

He Asked for It

Producer

Movie
1937

Many Unhappy Returns

Associate Producer

Movie
1936

The Last of the Mohicans

Assistant Director

Movie
1936

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

Assistant Director

Movie
1935

No More Ladies

Drunk (uncredited)

Movie
1935

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

Assistant Director

Movie
1933

The Story of Temple Drake

Third Jellybean (uncredited)

Movie
1931

The Painted Desert

Miner

Movie
1930

Love a la Mode

Movie
1929

Look out Below

Jerry, the drunk (as Jerry Drew)

Movie
1928

Power

The Menace (as Jerry Drew)

Movie
1927

High Spots

The Nut

Movie
1927

Jungle Heat

Movie
1927

Hot Lightning

Cyril - the Hotel Manager

Movie
1927

Listen Lena

Cyril - Al's Rival

Movie