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Actor Born: 1880 in Cozaddale, OH Death: August 11, 1963 in Woodland Hills, CA Biography:The screen's premiere "Old Codger," American actor "Clem Bevans" didn't make his movie debut until he was 55 years old. His acting career was launched in 1900 with a vaudeville boy-girl act costarring Grace Emmett. Bevans moved on to burlesque, stock shows, Broadway and light opera. In 1935, Bevans first stepped before the movie cameras as Doc Wiggins in "Way Down East". It was the first of many toothless, stubble-chinned geezers that Bevans would portray for the next 27 years. On occasion, producers and directors would use Bevans' established screen persona to throw the audience off the track. In "Happy Go Lucky" (1942), he unexpectedly shows up as a voyeuristic millionaire with a fondness for female knees; in Hitchcock's "Saboteur" (1942), he is a likeable old desert rat who turns out to be a Nazi spy! "Clem Bevans" continued playing farmers, hillbillies, and "town's oldest citizen" roles into the... Full Biography
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