John Clements
Actor, Film director
1910 – 1988
Who was John Clements?
Sir John Selby Clements, CBE 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 Noël 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.
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- Born
- Apr 25, 1910
London - Also known as
- Sir John Selby Clements
- Sir John Selby Clements, CBE
- John Selby Clements
- Sir John Clements
- Spouses
- Kay Hammond
(1946 - 1980/05/04) - Maria Ahlgren
(1936 - 1946)
- Kay Hammond
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- St John's College, Cambridge
- Died
- Apr 6, 1988
Brighton
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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