From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Sir John Selby Clements CBE 25 April 1910 6 April 1988 was an English actor and producer who worked in theatre television and film Clements attended St Pauls School and St Johns College Cambridge University then worked with Nigel Playfair and afterwards spent a few years in Ben Greets Shakespearean Company He made his first stage appearance in 1930 Clements founded the Intimate Theatre at Palmers Green in 1935 which is a combined repertory and tryout theatre He appeared in almost 200 plays and presented a number of plays in the West End as actormanagerproducer He also started his film work in 1933 Clements was the artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theatre from 1966 to 1973 He married the actress Kay Hammond and together they became a critical success on stage with their West End revival of Noel Cowards play Private Lives in 1945 In 1952 they both appeared in Clements own play The Happy Marriage an adaptation of JeanBernard Lucs Le Complexe de Philemon Clements starred as Edward Moutlon Barrett in the musical Robert and Elizabeth a successful adaptation of The Barretts of Wimpole Street His stepson is the actor John Standing As a film actor John Clements came to prominence when the film director Victor Saville chose him to star opposite Ralph Richardson in South Riding 1938 The two actors were reunited in the very successful The Four Feathers 1939 After this Clements film career was somewhat intermittent although he made a series of British war films for Ealing Studios and British Aviation Pictures such as Convoy 1940 Ships with Wings 1942 Tomorrow We Live 1943 and as Yugoslav guerrilla leader Milosh Petrovitch in Undercover 1943 He had a cameo role as Advocate General in Gandhi 1982 Clements was made a Commander of the British Empire CBE in 1956 and knighted in 1968 Description above from the Wikipedia article John Clements licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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