Career Highlights: Inherit the Wind, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Defiant Ones
First Major Screen Credit: The Big Street (1942)
Biography
From a theatrical family, Iowa-born Clem Beauchamp began his long screen career as a stunt pilot and, under the name Jerry Drew, as a bit player in such films as Brunettes Prefer Gentlemen (1927), Painted Faces (1929), and The Painted Desert (1931). He was Clem Beauchamp (pronounced "Beecham") in International House (1933) and No More Ladies, but then went behind the scenes to become a busy production manager. His career lasting through the 1960s, Beauchamp functioned as production manager on the classic television show Superman. He was married to former Hal Roach comedienne Anita Garvin. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide