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
- 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
- The Kentuckian as Riverboat Captain (uncredited)
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Stryker
- Ten Wanted Men as Tod Grinnel
- The Twinkle In God's Eye as Prospector
- Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race as Captain Cobb
1954
- The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin as Kid Hooker
- The Boy from Oklahoma as Amiel "Pop" Pruty
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Captain Cobb
1953
- The Stranger Wore a Gun as Jim Martin
1952
- Captive of Billy the Kid as Skeeter Davis
- Hangman's Knot as Plunkett, the Station agent
1951
- Man in the Saddle as Pay Lankershim
- Silver City Bonanza as Town Loafer
- Gold Raiders as Doc Mason
1950
- Harvey as Mr. Herman Shimelplatzer
- Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey as Mr. Edwards
- Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill as Sam 'Bigmouth' Smedley
1949
- Deputy Marshal as Doc Vinson
- Big Jack as Saltlick Joe
- Streets of Laredo as Pop Lint
- Tell It to the Judge as Alonzo K. Roogle
- The Gal Who Took the West as Hawley (as old Timer)
- Rim of the Canyon as Loco John
1948
- Relentless as Dad
- The Paleface as Hank Billings
- Loaded Pistols as Jim Hedge
- Portrait of Jennie as Capt. Cobb
- Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven as Capt. Bjorn
- Moonrise as Coroner
- Highway 13 as Bill 'Pops' Lacy
1947
- Yankee Fakir as Shaggy Hartley (aka "Prof. Davis")
- Mourning Becomes Electra as Ira Mackel
- The Millerson Case as Sheriff Luke Akers
1946
- The Yearling as Pa Forrester
- Gallant Bess as Smitty
- Wake Up and Dream as Henry Pecket
1945
- Captain Eddie as Jabez
- Grissly's Millions as Old Tom
- People on Paper as Horatio Curdlepuss (uncredited)
1944
- Tall in the Saddle as Card Game Spectator (uncredited)
1943
- The Woman of the Town as Buffalo Burns
- The Kansan as Bridge-Tender
- The Human Comedy as Henderson
- Happy Go Lucky as Mr. Smith
- Lady Bodyguard as Elmer Frawley
1942
- Lucky Jordan as Gas Station Attendant
- This Gun for Hire as Scissor Grinder
- Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die as Tadpole
- Fly By Night as Station Watchman
- Captains of the Clouds as Store-Teeth Morrison
- The Forest Rangers as Terry McCabe
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch as Mailman
- Saboteur as Neilson
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
- Wyoming as Pa McKinley
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Ben Mattling
- Gold Rush Maisie as 'Pop' Graybeard (Uncredited)
- Half a Sinner as Snuffy
- Young Tom Edison as Mr. Waddell
- The Captain Is a Lady as Samuel Darby
- 20 Mule Team as Chuckawalla
- Girl from God's Country as Ben
- Granny Get Your Gun as Smokey
- Who Killed Aunt Maggie? as Driver (Uncredited)
- Go West as Railroad Official
- She Couldn't Say No as Eli Potter
- Calling All Husbands as Judge Todd
- Northward, Ho! as Newspaper-reading skeptic
- Untamed as "Smokey" Moseby
1939
- Maisie as Station Agent (Uncredited)
- Dodge City as Charley (uncredited)
- Ambush as Pop Stebbins
- Zenobia as Sheriff
- Undercover Doctor as Sam Whitmore
- Thunder Afloat as 'Cap' Finch
- Night Work as Smokestack Smiley
- King of the Underworld as Villager #3 (uncredited)
- Idiot's Delight as Jimmy Barzek
- Yankee Doodle Goes to Town as Curdleface (uncredited)
- Main Street Lawyer as Zeke
- Hell's Kitchen as Mr. Quill
- I'll Tell the World as Grandpa Burton
- Outside These Walls as Smedley (uncredited)
- The Cowboy Quarterback as Lem the Mailman
- Yes, My Darling Daughter as Henry - Baggage Man
- They Made Me a Criminal as Ticket Taker (uncredited)
- Help Wanted as H.L. (Pop) Daniels
- Stand Up and Fight as Bum in jail
- The Oklahoma Kid as Postman (uncredited)
1938
- Miracle Money as Mr. Greene (uncredited)
- Mr. Chump as Pop (uncredited)
- Of Human Hearts as Elder Massey
- Tom Sawyer, Detective as Sheriff "Turkeyneck" Slocum
- Comet Over Broadway as Benson
- One Wild Night as Deaf Man (uncredited)
- Young Fugitives as Benjie Collins
1937
- Topper as Board Member (uncredited)
- Big City as Grandpa Sloane
- Mountain Music as Medicine Show Spectator (uncredited)
- Angel's Holiday as Sheriff
- Riding on Air as Sheriff
- Idol of the Crowds as Andy Moore (as Clem Bevins)
- Dangerous Number as Monte Christo (Actor Friend)
1936
- Every Sunday as Man playing checkers
- The Phantom Rider as Mr. Hudson
- Rhythm on the Range as Gila Bend
- The President's Mystery as Bus Passenger (uncredited)
1935
- Way Down East as Doc Wiggin