Clem Bevans(1879-1963)
- Actor
Born in 1879, Clem Bevans spent most of his performing career on the
stage. First appearing in 1900 in a vaudeville act with Grace Emmett as
a boy and girl act, he would move on to burlesque and eventually make
the move to Broadway and even opera productions. His first screen
appearance did not come until 1935, when at the age of 55 he was cast
as toothless old codger Doc Wiggins in
Way Down East (1935). So good was
his performance that he would become pigeonholed into "old codger"
roles for his entire movie career. Occasionally he would be given the
opportunity to play something out of character, such as a voyeuristic
millionaire with a fetish for women's knees in
Happy Go Lucky (1943) and a Nazi
spy in Alfred Hitchcock's
Saboteur (1942), but he would go on to
play variations of his "old coot" role until the day he died.
Clem Bevans died at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital.
