Clem Bevans
Born: 1880-10-16 in Cozaddale, Ohio, USA
Died: 1963-08-11
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Clem Bevans (October 16, 1879 – August 11, 1963) was an American character actor best remembered for playing eccentric, grumpy old men. Bevans had a very long career, starting in vaudeville in 1900 in an act with Grace Emmett. He progressed to burlesque, Broadway, and even light opera, before making his film debut at the age of 55 in Way Down East (1935). His portrayal was so good, he became stereotyped and played mostly likable old codgers for the rest of his life. Bevans played the neighbour of Gregory Peck in The Yearling and the gatekeeper in Harvey (1950). However, he did occasionally play against type, for example as a Nazi spy in Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942). He also made some television appearances, including the role of murderer Captain Hugo in the 1958 Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Demure Defendant" and as Pete in The Twilight Zone episode "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby" (1962). He played Captain Cobb in Disney's TV miniseries Davy Crockett. His first cousin was actress Merie Earle, best known as Maude Gormley on The Waltons.
Filmography
1960
- Thriller as Obed
1959
- Bonanza as Jeb
- The Twilight Zone as Pete
1958
- Girl with an Itch as Gramps
1957
- Perry Mason as Capt. Hugo
- Maverick
- The Real McCoys
1956
- Davy Crockett and the River Pirates as Cap'n Cobb
1955
- Gunsmoke as Fly
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Stryker
- The Kentuckian as Riverboat Captain (uncredited)
- Ten Wanted Men as Tod Grinnel
- The Twinkle In God's Eye as Prospector
- Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race as Captain Cobb
1954
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Captain Cobb
- The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin as Kid Hooker
- The Boy from Oklahoma as Amiel "Pop" Pruty
1953
- The Stranger Wore a Gun as Jim Martin
1952
- Hangman's Knot as Plunkett, the Station agent
- Captive of Billy the Kid as Skeeter Davis
1951
- Gold Raiders as Doc Mason
- Man in the Saddle as Pay Lankershim
- Silver City Bonanza as Town Loafer
1950
- Harvey as Mr. Herman Shimelplatzer
- Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill as Sam 'Bigmouth' Smedley
- Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey as Mr. Edwards
1949
- Streets of Laredo as Pop Lint
- Big Jack as Saltlick Joe
- The Gal Who Took the West as Hawley (as old Timer)
- Deputy Marshal as Doc Vinson
- Tell It to the Judge as Alonzo K. Roogle
- Rim of the Canyon as Loco John
1948
- Portrait of Jennie as Capt. Cobb
- The Paleface as Hank Billings
- Loaded Pistols as Jim Hedge
- Moonrise as Coroner
- Relentless as Dad
- Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven as Capt. Bjorn
- Highway 13 as Bill 'Pops' Lacy
1947
- The Millerson Case as Sheriff Luke Akers
- Mourning Becomes Electra as Ira Mackel
- Yankee Fakir as Shaggy Hartley (aka "Prof. Davis")
1946
- The Yearling as Pa Forrester
- Wake Up and Dream as Henry Pecket
- Gallant Bess as Smitty
1945
- Grissly's Millions as Old Tom
- Captain Eddie as Jabez
- People on Paper as Horatio Curdlepuss (uncredited)
1944
- Tall in the Saddle as Card Game Spectator (uncredited)
1943
- The Human Comedy as Henderson
- Happy Go Lucky as Mr. Smith
- Lady Bodyguard as Elmer Frawley
- The Kansan as Bridge-Tender
- The Woman of the Town as Buffalo Burns
1942
- Saboteur as Neilson
- This Gun for Hire as Scissor Grinder
- The Forest Rangers as Terry McCabe
- Captains of the Clouds as Store-Teeth Morrison
- Fly By Night as Station Watchman
- Lucky Jordan as Gas Station Attendant
- Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die as Tadpole
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch as Mailman
1941
- Sergeant York as Zeke
- Texas as Abilene Fight Spectator (uncredited)
- Pacific Blackout as Midas Plant Night-Watchman
- The Smiling Ghost as Sexton at cemetery
- The Parson of Panamint as Crabapple Jones
1940
- Go West as Railroad Official
- Young Tom Edison as Mr. Waddell
- Calling All Husbands as Judge Todd
- Untamed as "Smokey" Moseby
- Granny Get Your Gun as Smokey
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Ben Mattling
- 20 Mule Team as Chuckawalla
- Girl from God's Country as Ben
- Gold Rush Maisie as 'Pop' Graybeard (Uncredited)
- Half a Sinner as Snuffy
- Wyoming as Pa McKinley
- The Captain is a Lady as Samuel Darby
- Who Killed Aunt Maggie? as Driver (Uncredited)
- She Couldn't Say No as Eli Potter
- Northward, Ho! as Newspaper-reading skeptic
1939
- Dodge City as Charley (uncredited)
- Undercover Doctor as Sam Whitmore
- Hell's Kitchen as Mr. Quill
- Zenobia as Sheriff
- Idiot's Delight as Jimmy Barzek
- The Oklahoma Kid as Postman (uncredited)
- I'll Tell the World as Grandpa Burton
- Help Wanted as H.L. (Pop) Daniels
- Yes, My Darling Daughter as Henry - Baggage Man
- They Made Me a Criminal as Ticket Taker (uncredited)
- King of the Underworld as Villager #3 (uncredited)
- Maisie as Station Agent (Uncredited)
- Stand Up and Fight as Bum in jail
- Main Street Lawyer as Zeke
- The Cowboy Quarterback as Lem the Mailman
- Thunder Afloat as 'Cap' Finch
- Ambush as Pop Stebbins
- Outside These Walls as Smedley (uncredited)
- Night Work as Smokestack Smiley
- Yankee Doodle Goes to Town as Curdleface (uncredited)
1938
- Of Human Hearts as Elder Massey
- Comet Over Broadway as Benson
- Miracle Money as Mr. Greene (uncredited)
- One Wild Night as Deaf Man (uncredited)
- Tom Sawyer, Detective as Sheriff "Turkeyneck" Slocum
- Young Fugitives as Benjie Collins
- Mr. Chump as Pop (uncredited)
1937
- Topper as Board Member (uncredited)
- Riding on Air as Sheriff
- Mountain Music as Medicine Show Spectator (uncredited)
- Dangerous Number as Monte Christo (Actor Friend)
- Big City as Grandpa Sloane
- Angel's Holiday as Sheriff
- Idol of the Crowds as Andy Moore (as Clem Bevins)
1936
- Every Sunday as Man Playing Checkers (uncredited)
- Rhythm on the Range as Gila Bend
- The President's Mystery as Bus Passenger (uncredited)
- The Phantom Rider as Mr. Hudson
1935
- Way Down East as Doc Wiggin