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
- Man in the Saddle as Pay Lankershim
- Silver City Bonanza as Town Loafer
- Gold Raiders as Doc Mason
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
- The Gal Who Took the West as Hawley (as old Timer)
- Deputy Marshal as Doc Vinson
- Rim of the Canyon as Loco John
- Big Jack as Saltlick Joe
- Tell It to the Judge as Alonzo K. Roogle
1948
- Portrait of Jennie as Capt. Cobb
- Moonrise as Coroner
- Relentless as Dad
- Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven as Capt. Bjorn
- The Paleface as Hank Billings
- Highway 13 as Bill 'Pops' Lacy
- Loaded Pistols as Jim Hedge
1947
- Mourning Becomes Electra as Ira Mackel
- Yankee Fakir as Shaggy Hartley (aka "Prof. Davis")
- 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 Human Comedy as Henderson
- Lady Bodyguard as Elmer Frawley
- The Kansan as Bridge-Tender
- The Woman of the Town as Buffalo Burns
- Happy Go Lucky as Mr. Smith
1942
- Saboteur as Neilson
- This Gun for Hire as Scissor Grinder
- Captains of the Clouds as Store-Teeth Morrison
- Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die as Tadpole
- The Forest Rangers as Terry McCabe
- Fly By Night as Station Watchman
- Lucky Jordan as Gas Station Attendant
- 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 Parson of Panamint as Crabapple Jones
- The Smiling Ghost as Sexton at cemetery
1940
- Untamed as "Smokey" Moseby
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Ben Mattling
- 20 Mule Team as Chuckawalla
- Young Tom Edison as Mr. Waddell
- Gold Rush Maisie as 'Pop' Graybeard (Uncredited)
- Go West as Railroad Official
- Wyoming as Pa McKinley
- Girl from God's Country as Ben
- She Couldn't Say No as Eli Potter
- Granny Get Your Gun as Smokey
- Half a Sinner as Snuffy
- Who Killed Aunt Maggie? as Driver (Uncredited)
- Calling All Husbands as Judge Todd
- The Captain is a Lady as Samuel Darby
- Northward, Ho! as Newspaper-reading skeptic
1939
- Dodge City as Charley (uncredited)
- The Oklahoma Kid as Postman (uncredited)
- King of the Underworld as Villager #3 (uncredited)
- Hell's Kitchen as Mr. Quill
- They Made Me a Criminal as Ticket Taker (uncredited)
- Idiot's Delight as Jimmy Barzek
- Zenobia as Sheriff
- Maisie as Station Agent (Uncredited)
- Yes, My Darling Daughter as Henry - Baggage Man
- Stand Up and Fight as Bum in jail
- Outside These Walls as Smedley (uncredited)
- Undercover Doctor as Sam Whitmore
- The Cowboy Quarterback as Lem the Mailman
- Night Work as Smokestack Smiley
- Thunder Afloat as 'Cap' Finch
- Main Street Lawyer as Zeke
- Ambush as Pop Stebbins
- Yankee Doodle Goes to Town as Curdleface (uncredited)
- Help Wanted as H.L. (Pop) Daniels
- I'll Tell the World as Grandpa Burton
1938
- Of Human Hearts as Elder Massey
- Comet Over Broadway as Benson
- Young Fugitives as Benjie Collins
- One Wild Night as Deaf Man (uncredited)
- Tom Sawyer, Detective as Sheriff "Turkeyneck" Slocum
- Miracle Money as Mr. Greene (uncredited)
- Mr. Chump as Pop (uncredited)
1937
- Topper as Board Member (uncredited)
- Idol of the Crowds as Andy Moore (as Clem Bevins)
- Angel's Holiday as Sheriff
- Dangerous Number as Monte Christo (Actor Friend)
- Big City as Grandpa Sloane
- Riding on Air as Sheriff
- Mountain Music as Medicine Show Spectator (uncredited)
1936
- Every Sunday as Man Playing Checkers (uncredited)
- The President's Mystery as Bus Passenger (uncredited)
- Rhythm on the Range as Gila Bend
- The Phantom Rider as Mr. Hudson
1935
- Way Down East as Doc Wiggin