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
- Ten Wanted Men as Tod Grinnel
- The Kentuckian as Riverboat Captain (uncredited)
- 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
- Gold Raiders as Doc Mason
- 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
- Big Jack as Saltlick Joe
- The Gal Who Took the West as Hawley (as old Timer)
- Streets of Laredo as Pop Lint
- Rim of the Canyon as Loco John
- Tell It to the Judge as Alonzo K. Roogle
- Deputy Marshal as Doc Vinson
1948
- Portrait of Jennie as Capt. Cobb
- The Paleface as Hank Billings
- Relentless as Dad
- Moonrise as Coroner
- Loaded Pistols as Jim Hedge
- Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven as Capt. Bjorn
- Highway 13 as Bill 'Pops' Lacy
1947
- Mourning Becomes Electra as Ira Mackel
- The Millerson Case as Sheriff Luke Akers
- 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
- The Woman of the Town as Buffalo Burns
- Happy Go Lucky as Mr. Smith
- The Kansan as Bridge-Tender
- Lady Bodyguard as Elmer Frawley
1942
- Saboteur as Neilson
- This Gun for Hire as Scissor Grinder
- Captains of the Clouds as Store-Teeth Morrison
- The Forest Rangers as Terry McCabe
- Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die as Tadpole
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch as Mailman
- Lucky Jordan as Gas Station Attendant
- Fly By Night as Station Watchman
1941
- Sergeant York as Zeke
- Texas as Abilene Fight Spectator (uncredited)
- The Parson of Panamint as Crabapple Jones
- Pacific Blackout as Midas Plant Night-Watchman
- The Smiling Ghost as Sexton at cemetery
1940
- Go West as Railroad Official (uncredited)
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Ben Mattling
- Young Tom Edison as Mr. Waddell
- Granny Get Your Gun as Smokey
- She Couldn't Say No as Eli Potter
- Girl from God's Country as Ben
- 20 Mule Team as Chuckawalla
- Who Killed Aunt Maggie? as Driver (Uncredited)
- Untamed as "Smokey" Moseby
- The Captain is a Lady as Samuel Darby
- Calling All Husbands as Judge Todd
- Half a Sinner as Snuffy
- Gold Rush Maisie as 'Pop' Graybeard (Uncredited)
- Wyoming as Pa McKinley
- Northward, Ho! as Newspaper-reading skeptic
1939
- Dodge City as Charley (uncredited)
- The Oklahoma Kid as Postman (uncredited)
- They Made Me a Criminal as Ticket Taker (uncredited)
- Ambush as Pop Stebbins
- Undercover Doctor as Sam Whitmore
- Zenobia as Sheriff
- Stand Up and Fight as Bum in jail
- Idiot's Delight as Jimmy Barzek
- King of the Underworld as Villager #3 (uncredited)
- Hell's Kitchen as Mr. Quill
- Yes, My Darling Daughter as Henry - Baggage Man
- Thunder Afloat as 'Cap' Finch
- I'll Tell the World as Grandpa Burton
- Outside These Walls as Smedley (uncredited)
- Yankee Doodle Goes to Town as Curdleface (uncredited)
- Help Wanted as H.L. (Pop) Daniels
- Main Street Lawyer as Zeke
- Night Work as Smokestack Smiley
- The Cowboy Quarterback as Lem the Mailman
- Maisie as Station Agent (Uncredited)
1938
- Of Human Hearts as Elder Massey
- One Wild Night as Deaf Man (uncredited)
- Comet Over Broadway as Benson
- Tom Sawyer, Detective as Sheriff "Turkeyneck" Slocum
- Young Fugitives as Benjie Collins
- Miracle Money as Mr. Greene (uncredited)
- Mr. Chump as Pop (uncredited)
1937
- Topper as Board Member (uncredited)
- Big City as Grandpa Sloane
- Idol of the Crowds as Andy Moore (as Clem Bevins)
- Dangerous Number as Monte Christo (Actor Friend)
- Riding on Air as Sheriff
- Mountain Music as Medicine Show Spectator (uncredited)
- Angel's Holiday as Sheriff
1936
- Rhythm on the Range as Gila Bend
- The President's Mystery as Bus Passenger (uncredited)
- Every Sunday as Man Playing Checkers (uncredited)
- The Phantom Rider as Mr. Hudson
1935
- Way Down East as Doc Wiggin