From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Clement Hoyt Clem Beauchamp August 26 1898 November 14 1992 also known as Jerry Drew in his 20s and early 30s acting career first worked as a second unit director in 1935 netting the Academy Award for Best Assistant Director for his work on The Lives of a Bengal Lancer He was nominated in the same category the following year for The Last of the Mohicans Born in Bloomfield Iowa Beauchamp was one of two sons of Charles and Ula Beauchamp His father was a druggist The family later moved to Denver Colorado and then to Fort Worth Texas After his parents divorced his mother took her sons to Los Angeles California where Beauchamp started working in motion pictures at age 16 as a stuntman His first known film is Stupid But Brave He would later appear in The Painted Desert sharing screen time with Clark Gable and William Boyd In 1933 he appeared in the WC Fields comedy International House in a noncredited part as a newsreel cameraman Beauchamp had a shortlived marriage to actress and comedian Anita Garvin who is best remembered for the eleven films she made with comedians Laurel and Hardy In 1935 he married script girl Sydney Hein He went on to work on several Tarzan and Dick Tracy movies eventually becoming a production manager In this capacity he worked on such films as Fred Zinnemanns The Men 1950 and High Noon 1952 Death of a Salesman 1951 and most of Stanley Kramers best work including The Defiant Ones 1958 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 and Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963 He later worked on Blake Edwards The Great Race 1965 and William A Grahams Waterhole No 3 1967 He was also the production manager on The Adventures of Superman television series starring George Reeves Beauchamp told The Literary Digest his name was pronounced Boshawm both syllables accented alike Charles Earle Funk Whats the Name Please Funk Wagnalls 1936