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- Died
- Birth nameClement Guy Blevins
- 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.
- IMDb mini biography by: Keith Burnage webmaster@sgt-york.com
- SpousesMary Lillian Elizabeth Lupien(May 4, 1939 - August 11, 1963) (his death, 4 children)Edith May Sketchley(March 3, 1905 - 1918) (divorced, 1 child)Bessie Helena Logan(May 22, 1900 - 1904) (divorced, 1 child)
- He was the earliest born actor to appear in The Twilight Zone (1959).
- Had an adopted daughter, Vickie Dunagen, who died on April 29, 2007 in Medford, Oregon at the age of 68.
- One daughter with wife Edith May Sketchley named Edith M. born 1908.
- His cousin was also an actor, Merie Earle.
- Six (6) children: Logan, from his first marriage to Bessie Logan; Edith, from his second marriage to Edith Sketchley; Clemene, Luppee (Vickie), Clark and Frances, all adopted with his third wife, Lillian.
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