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Clem Bevans

Born 1880-10-16

Died 1963-08-11

📍 Cozaddale, Ohio, USA

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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 123

as The Old Gaffer

The Twilight Zone

Girl with an Itch

The Real McCoys

The Real McCoys

as Floyd Armbruster

Davy Crockett and the River Pirates

Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race

as Captain Cobb

The Twinkle In God's Eye

Screen Director's Playhouse

as Riverboat Captain (uncredited)

The Wonderful World of Disney

as Captain Cobb

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

The Boy from Oklahoma

as Amiel "Pop" Pruty

The Stranger Wore a Gun

as Plunkett, the Station agent

Captive of Billy the Kid

as Skeeter Davis

Man in the Saddle

as Pay Lankershim

Silver City Bonanza

Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill

as Sam 'Bigmouth' Smedley

as Mr. Herman Shimelplatzer

Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey

Tell It to the Judge

as Alonzo K. Roogle

The Gal Who Took the West

as Hawley (as old Timer)

Rim of the Canyon

Streets of Laredo

as Saltlick Joe

as Bill 'Pops' Lacy

Portrait of Jennie

as Hank Billings

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

Mourning Becomes Electra

The Millerson Case

as Sheriff Luke Akers

as Shaggy Hartley (aka "Prof. Davis")

as Pa Forrester

Wake Up and Dream

as Henry Pecket

People on Paper

as Horatio Curdlepuss (uncredited)

Grissly's Millions

Tall in the Saddle

as Card Game Spectator (uncredited)

The Woman of the Town

as Buffalo Burns

as Bridge-Tender

The Human Comedy

as Elmer Frawley

as Gas Station Attendant

The Forest Rangers

as Terry McCabe

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die

This Gun for Hire

as Scissor Grinder

Captains of the Clouds

as Store-Teeth Morrison

as Station Watchman

Pacific Blackout

as Midas Plant Night-Watchman

as Abilene Fight Spectator (uncredited)

The Smiling Ghost

as Sexton at cemetery

The Parson of Panamint

as Crabapple Jones

She Couldn't Say No

as Railroad Official

Who Killed Aunt Maggie?

as Driver (Uncredited)

Calling All Husbands

Girl from God's Country

Gold Rush Maisie

as 'Pop' Graybeard (Uncredited)

as "Smokey" Moseby

The Captain is a Lady

as Samuel Darby

Young Tom Edison

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

as Ben Mattling

Granny Get Your Gun

as Newspaper-reading skeptic

Main Street Lawyer

as Smokestack Smiley

The Cowboy Quarterback

as Lem the Mailman

as Station Agent (Uncredited)

Yankee Doodle Goes to Town

as Curdleface (uncredited)

as H.L. (Pop) Daniels

Undercover Doctor

as Sam Whitmore

Outside These Walls

as Smedley (uncredited)

as Charley (uncredited)

The Oklahoma Kid

as Postman (uncredited)

I'll Tell the World

as Grandpa Burton

Yes, My Darling Daughter

as Henry - Baggage Man

Idiot's Delight

as Jimmy Barzek

They Made Me a Criminal

as Ticket Taker (uncredited)

as Pop Stebbins

King of the Underworld

as Villager #3 (uncredited)

Stand Up and Fight

Tom Sawyer, Detective

as Sheriff "Turkeyneck" Slocum

Comet Over Broadway

as Pop (uncredited)

Young Fugitives

as Benjie Collins

as Deaf Man (uncredited)

as Mr. Greene (uncredited)

Of Human Hearts

as Elder Massey

Idol of the Crowds

as Andy Moore (as Clem Bevins)

as Grandpa Sloane

as Board Member (uncredited)

as Medicine Show Spectator (uncredited)

Angel's Holiday

Dangerous Number

as Monte Christo (Actor Friend)

as Man Playing Checkers (uncredited)

The President's Mystery

as Bus Passenger (uncredited)

The Phantom Rider

Rhythm on the Range