Clem Bevans

Highest Rated: 100% The Paleface (1948)

Lowest Rated: 14% The Kentuckian (1955)

Birthday: Oct 16, 1879

Birthplace: Not Available

The screen's premiere "Old Codger," American actor Clem Bevans didn't make his movie debut until he was 55 years old. His acting career was launched in 1900 with a vaudeville boy-girl act costarring Grace Emmett. Bevans moved on to burlesque, stock shows, Broadway and light opera. In 1935, Bevans first stepped before the movie cameras as Doc Wiggins in Way Down East. It was the first of many toothless, stubble-chinned geezers that Bevans would portray for the next 27 years. On occasion, producers and directors would use Bevans' established screen persona to throw the audience off the track. In Happy Go Lucky (1942), he unexpectedly shows up as a voyeuristic millionaire with a fondness for female knees; in Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942), he is a likeable old desert rat who turns out to be a Nazi spy! Clem Bevans continued playing farmers, hillbillies, and "town's oldest citizen" roles into the early 1960s. The octogenarian actor could be seen in a 1962 episode of Twilight Zone ("Hocus Pocus and Frisby") looking and sounding just the same as he had way back in 1935.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Davy Crockett and the River Pirates	Cap'n Cobb	—	1956
14%	The Kentuckian	Pilot	—	1955
No Score Yet	Ten Wanted Men	Tod Grinnel	—	1955
No Score Yet	The Stranger Wore a Gun	Jim Martin	—	1953
No Score Yet	Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill	Sam "Bigmouth" Smedley	—	1953
No Score Yet	Hangman's Knot	Plunkett	—	1952
No Score Yet	Man in the Saddle	Pay Lankershim	—	1951
No Score Yet	Gold Raiders	Doc	—	1951
No Score Yet	Silver City Bonanza	Townsman	—	1951
86%	Harvey	Herman	—	1950
No Score Yet	Tell It to the Judge	Roogle	—	1949
No Score Yet	The Gal Who Took the West	Hawley as an Old Timer	—	1949
57%	Streets of Laredo	Pop Lint	—	1949
No Score Yet	Big Jack	Saltlick Joe	—	1949
No Score Yet	Rim of the Canyon	Loco John	—	1949
83%	Portrait of Jennie	Capt. Caleb Cobb	—	1948
100%	The Paleface	Hank Billings	—	1948
No Score Yet	Loaded Pistols	Jim Hedge	—	1948
100%	Moonrise	Jake	—	1948
No Score Yet	Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven	Capt. Bjorn	—	1948
No Score Yet	Yankee Fakir	Shaggy Hartley	—	1947
100%	The Yearling	Pa Forrester	—	1946
No Score Yet	Tall in the Saddle	Card Game Spectator	—	1944
No Score Yet	The Woman of the Town	Buffalo Burns	—	1944
No Score Yet	The Kansan,(Wagon Wheels)	Bridge Tender	—	1943
80%	The Human Comedy	Henderson	—	1943
No Score Yet	Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die	Tadpole	—	1942
94%	This Gun for Hire	Scissor Grinder	—	1942
81%	Saboteur	Neilson	—	1942
No Score Yet	Captains of the Clouds	Store-Teeth Morrison	—	1942
88%	Sergeant York	Zeke	—	1941
No Score Yet	The Captain is a Lady	Samuel Darby	—	1940
89%	Go West	Official	—	1940
No Score Yet	Half a Sinner	Snuffy	—	1940
No Score Yet	Young Tom Edison	Mr. Waddell	—	1940
83%	Abe Lincoln in Illinois	Ben Mattling	—	1940
No Score Yet	20 Mule Team	Chuckawalla	—	1940
No Score Yet	Hell's Kitchen	Mr. Quill	—	1939
No Score Yet	Zenobia, (Elephants Never Forget)	Sheriff	—	1939
100%	Dodge City	Charlie, the Barber	—	1939
40%	Idiot's Delight	Jimmy Barzek	—	1939
No Score Yet	They Made Me a Criminal	Ticket Taker	—	1939
No Score Yet	The Oklahoma Kid	Postman	—	1939
No Score Yet	King of the Underworld	Villager	—	1939
No Score Yet	Stand Up and Fight	Bum	—	1939
No Score Yet	Hold That Co-Ed	Actor	—	1938
70%	Boy Meets Girl	Actor	—	1938
No Score Yet	Young Fugitives	Benjie	—	1938
No Score Yet	Of Human Hearts	Elder Massey	—	1938
No Score Yet	Idol of the Crowds	Andy Moore	—	1937
No Score Yet	The Toast of New York	Panhandler	—	1937
No Score Yet	Riding on Air	The Sheriff	—	1937
91%	Come and Get It	Gunner Gallagher	—	1936
No Score Yet	Rhythm on the Range	Gila Bend	—	1936
No Score Yet	Way Down East	Doc Wiggin	—	1935

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
82%	The Twilight Zone 1959-1964	Old Man	1962 1960
No Score Yet	Bonanza 1959-1973	Jeb	1961
No Score Yet	Maverick 1957-1962	Old Man	1959 1958
No Score Yet	Perry Mason 1957-1966	Hugo	1958

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