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.)
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Movies (50)
Waterhole #3
Unit Production Manager (Production)
1967
The Great Race
Unit Production Manager (Production)
1965
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Production Manager (Production)
1963
Judgment at Nuremberg
Production Manager (Production)
1961
Inherit the Wind
Production Manager (Production)
1960
The Defiant Ones
Production Manager (Production)
1958
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Production Manager (Production)
1953
The Juggler
Production Manager (Production)
1953
Eight Iron Men
Production Manager (Production)
1952
High Noon
Production Supervisor (Production)
1952
My Six Convicts
Production Manager (Production)
1952
Death of a Salesman
Production Manager (Production)
1951
Cyrano de Bergerac
Production Manager (Production)
1950
The Men
Production Manager (Production)
1950
Massacre River
Assistant Director (Directing)
1949
Home of the Brave
Production Manager (Production)
1949
Champion
Production Manager (Production)
1949
Tarzan and the Huntress
Production Manager (Production)
1947
The Red House
Production Manager (Production)
1947
Ding Dong Williams
Assistant Director (Directing)
1946
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
Unit Manager (Production)
1946
Dick Tracy
Assistant Director (Directing)
1945
George White's Scandals
Assistant Director (Directing)
1945
Two O'Clock Courage
Assistant Director (Directing)
1945
Having Wonderful Crime
Assistant Director (Directing)
1945
Stage Door Canteen
Set Decoration (Art)
1943
Inferior Decorator
Director (Directing)
1943
Tarzan Triumphs
Assistant Director (Directing)
1943
The Mayor of 44th Street
Assistant Director (Directing)
1942
The Falcon's Brother
Assistant Director (Directing)
1942
The Big Street
Assistant Director (Directing)
1942
Who's a Dummy?
Story (Writing)
1941
Unexpected Uncle
Assistant Director (Directing)
1941
The Gay Falcon
Assistant Director (Directing)
1941
Westward Ho-Hum
Story (Writing)
1941
He Asked for It
Producer (Production)
1940
Many Unhappy Returns
Associate Producer (Production)
1937
The Last of the Mohicans
Assistant Director (Directing)
1936
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Assistant Director (Directing)
1936
No More Ladies
as Drunk (uncredited)
1935
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Assistant Director (Directing)
1935
The Story of Temple Drake
as Third Jellybean (uncredited)
1933
The Painted Desert
as Miner
1931
Love a la Mode
1930
Look out Below
as Jerry, the drunk (as Jerry Drew)
1929
Power
as The Menace (as Jerry Drew)
1928
High Spots
as The Nut
1927
Jungle Heat
1927
Hot Lightning
as Cyril - the Hotel Manager
1927
Listen Lena
as Cyril - Al's Rival
1927