Clem Bevans
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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 |
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No Score Yet | Davy Crockett and the River Pirates |
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— | 1956 |
14% | The Kentuckian |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Ten Wanted Men |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | The Stranger Wore a Gun |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Hangman's Knot |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | Man in the Saddle |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | Gold Raiders |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | Silver City Bonanza |
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— | 1951 |
86% | Harvey |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | Tell It to the Judge |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | The Gal Who Took the West |
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— | 1949 |
57% | Streets of Laredo |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | Big Jack |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | Rim of the Canyon |
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— | 1949 |
83% | Portrait of Jennie |
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— | 1948 |
100% | The Paleface |
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— | 1948 |
No Score Yet | Loaded Pistols |
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— | 1948 |
100% | Moonrise |
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— | 1948 |
No Score Yet | Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven |
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— | 1948 |
No Score Yet | Yankee Fakir |
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— | 1947 |
100% | The Yearling |
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— | 1946 |
No Score Yet | Tall in the Saddle |
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— | 1944 |
No Score Yet | The Woman of the Town |
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— | 1944 |
No Score Yet | The Kansan,(Wagon Wheels) |
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— | 1943 |
80% | The Human Comedy |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die |
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— | 1942 |
94% | This Gun for Hire |
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— | 1942 |
81% | Saboteur |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Captains of the Clouds |
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— | 1942 |
88% | Sergeant York |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | The Captain is a Lady |
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— | 1940 |
89% | Go West |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | Half a Sinner |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | Young Tom Edison |
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— | 1940 |
83% | Abe Lincoln in Illinois |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | 20 Mule Team |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | Hell's Kitchen |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | Zenobia, (Elephants Never Forget) |
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— | 1939 |
100% | Dodge City |
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— | 1939 |
40% | Idiot's Delight |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | They Made Me a Criminal |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | The Oklahoma Kid |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | King of the Underworld |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | Stand Up and Fight |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | Hold That Co-Ed |
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— | 1938 |
70% | Boy Meets Girl |
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— | 1938 |
No Score Yet | Young Fugitives |
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— | 1938 |
No Score Yet | Of Human Hearts |
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— | 1938 |
No Score Yet | Idol of the Crowds |
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— | 1937 |
No Score Yet | The Toast of New York |
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— | 1937 |
No Score Yet | Riding on Air |
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— | 1937 |
91% | Come and Get It |
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— | 1936 |
No Score Yet | Rhythm on the Range |
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— | 1936 |
No Score Yet | Way Down East |
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— | 1935 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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82% |
The Twilight Zone
1959-1964
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No Score Yet |
Bonanza
1959-1973
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No Score Yet |
Maverick
1957-1962
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No Score Yet |
Perry Mason
1957-1966
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