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Clem Bevans


Actor
Clem Bevans

About

Also Known As
Clem Blevins
Birth Place
Cozaddale, Ohio, USA
Born
October 16, 1879
Died
August 11, 1963

Biography

Clem Bevans was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Bevans started his acting career landing roles in such films as "Way Down East" (1935) with Henry Fonda, the musical comedy "Rhythm on the Range" (1936) with Bing Crosby and "Come and Get It" (1936). He also appeared in "Idol of the Crowds" (1937), the comedy "Riding on Air" (1937) with Joe E Brown and "The Big City" (...

Biography

Clem Bevans was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Bevans started his acting career landing roles in such films as "Way Down East" (1935) with Henry Fonda, the musical comedy "Rhythm on the Range" (1936) with Bing Crosby and "Come and Get It" (1936). He also appeared in "Idol of the Crowds" (1937), the comedy "Riding on Air" (1937) with Joe E Brown and "The Big City" (1937). He continued to work steadily in film throughout the forties, appearing in the Wayne Morris comedy "The Smiling Ghost" (1941), "Captains of the Clouds" (1942) and "The Forest Rangers" (1942) with Fred MacMurray. He also appeared in the musical "Happy Go Lucky" (1943) with Mary Martin. Film continued to be his passion as he played roles in "Highway 13" (1949), the Macdonald Carey remake "Streets of Laredo" (1949) and the dramatic comedy "The Gal Who Took the West" (1949) with Yvonne De Carlo. He also appeared in "Deputy Marshall" (1949) with Jon Hall and the Rosalind Russell comedy "Tell It to the Judge" (1949). Bevans last acted on "The Twilight Zone" (CBS, 1959-1964). Bevans passed away in August 1963 at the age of 84.

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Girl with an Itch (1958)
Gramps
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956)
Cap'N Cobb
Ten Wanted Men (1955)
Tod Grinnel
The Kentuckian (1955)
Pilot
The Twinkle in God's Eye (1955)
Prospector
The Boy from Oklahoma (1954)
Pop Pruty
The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953)
Jim Martin
Captive of Billy the Kid (1952)
Skeeter Davis
Hangman's Knot (1952)
Plunkett
Man in the Saddle (1951)
Pay Lankershim
Silver City Bonanza (1951)
Townsman
Gold Raiders (1951)
Doc Mason
Harvey (1950)
Herman
Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey (1950)
Mr. Edwards
Loaded Pistols (1949)
Jim Hedge
Portrait of Jennie (1949)
Capt. Catch Cobb
Tell It to the Judge (1949)
Roogle
Big Jack (1949)
Saltlick Joe
Streets of Laredo (1949)
Pop Lint
The Gal Who Took the West (1949)
Hawley as old timer
Deputy Marshal (1949)
Doc Allen Vinson
Highway 13 (1949)
"Pops" Lacy
Rim of the Canyon (1949)
Loco John
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven (1948)
Capt. Lars Bjorn
The Paleface (1948)
Hank Billings
Relentless (1948)
Dad
Moonrise (1948)
Jake
The Millerson Case (1947)
Sheriff Akers
Gallant Bess (1947)
Smitty
Yankee Fakir (1947)
Shaggy Hartley, also known as Colonel Throckmorton J. Davis
The Yearling (1947)
Pa Forrester
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
Ira Mackel
Wake Up and Dream (1946)
Henry Pecket
Captain Eddie (1945)
Jabez
Night Club Girl (1945)
Mayor
Grissly's Millions (1945)
Young Tom
Tall in the Saddle (1944)
Sam Haynes
The Woman of the Town (1943)
Buffalo Burns
Happy Go Lucky (1943)
Mr. Smith
Lady Bodyguard (1943)
Elmer Frawley
The Kansan (1943)
Bridge-tender
The Human Comedy (1943)
Henderson
Fly-by-Night (1942)
Station guard
Captains of the Clouds (1942)
Store-teeth Morrison
The Forest Rangers (1942)
Terry McCabe
Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die (1942)
Tadpole
Saboteur (1942)
Neilson
Lucky Jordan (1942)
Gas station attendant
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942)
Postman
This Gun for Hire (1942)
Scissor grinder
Pacific Blackout (1941)
Night watchman
The Smiling Ghost (1941)
Sexton
Sergeant York (1941)
Zeke
The Parson of Panamint (1941)
Crabapple Jones
Untamed (1940)
"Smokey" Moseby
Girl from God's Country (1940)
Ben
Young Tom Edison (1940)
Mr. Waddell
The Captain Is a Lady (1940)
Samuel Darby
20 Mule Team (1940)
Chuckwalla
Calling All Husbands (1940)
Judge Todd
Half a Sinner (1940)
Snuffy
Granny Get Your Gun (1940)
Smokey
She Couldn't Say No (1940)
Eli Potter
Wyoming (1940)
Pa McKinley
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Ben Mattling
Gold Rush Maisie (1940)
Graybeard
They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
Ticket taker
Stand Up and Fight (1939)
Bum
King of the Underworld (1939)
Third villager
Ambush (1939)
Pop Stebbins
Thunder Afloat (1939)
"Cap" Finch
Night Work (1939)
Smokestack Smiley, the grandfather
Main Street Lawyer (1939)
Zeke
Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939)
Henry
Cowboy Quarterback (1939)
Lem
Undercover Doctor (1939)
Sam Whitmore
Zenobia (1939)
Sheriff
The Kid from Kokomo (1939)
Jim
Outside These Walls (1939)
Smedley
Maisie (1939)
Station agent
Hell's Kitchen (1939)
Mr. Quil
Dodge City (1939)
Charlie, barber
Mr. Chump (1938)
Pop
Tom Sawyer, Detective (1938)
Sheriff Slocum
Young Fugitives (1938)
Benjie [Collins]
Comet over Broadway (1938)
[Lem] Benson
Of Human Hearts (1938)
Elder Massey
Hold That Co-Ed (1938)
Judkins
One Wild Night (1938)
Deaf old man
Valley of the Giants (1938)
Old man
The Toast of New York (1937)
Panhandler
Angel's Holiday (1937)
Sheriff
Idol of the Crowds (1937)
Andy Moore
Riding on Air (1937)
The sheriff
Big City (1937)
Grandpa Sloan
Rhythm on the Range (1936)
Gilda Bend
Come and Get It (1936)
Gunnar Gallagher
Way Down East (1935)
"Doc" Wiggin

Cast (Short)

People on Paper (1945)
Northward, Ho! (1939)
Yankee Doodle Goes to Town (1939)
Miracle Money (1938)

Life Events

1935

Film acting debut

Bibliography