Hal Clements

Hal Clements

Hal Clements (1869-1957) was an American actor and director of silent films. He starred in dozens of silent films. He married writer Olga Printzlau.^{[ citation needed ]}

Clements was part of Kalem Studio's Jacksonville film crew. ^[1] In 1914, he directed and managed the studio's comedy unit in Santa Monica featuring Ruth Roland and John Brennan. ^[2] He portrayed General John Pershing in a Thomas Ince film. ^[3] In 1916 he was managing director of the new Gate City Feature Film Company. ^[4]

Filmography

• Battle of Pottsburg Bridge (1912)
• The Drummer Girl of Vicksburg (1912)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin (1913)
• The Grim Toll of War (1913) ^[5]
• O'Brien Finds a Way (1914)
• Armstrong's Wife (1915)
• Out of the Darkness (1915)
• The Unknown (1915)
• The Secret Sin (1915)
• The Immigrant (1915)
• The Girl Telegrapher's Nerve (1916)
• Miss Jackie of the Army (1917) ^[6]
• An American Live Wire (1918) ^[5]
• Other Men's Wives (1919)
• An Innocent Adventuress (1919)
• The Siege of Petersburg
• The Sacrifice at the Spillway ^[7]
• The Man Who Could Not Lose, a Biograph film, as Jack Carter ^[8]
• Seventeen (1940)
• Wichita (1955) ^[9]

References

1. Abel, Richard; Altman, Rick R. (October 3, 2001). The Sounds of Early Cinema. Indiana University Press. ISBN   0253108705 – via Google Books.
2. "The Moving Picture World". Chalmers Publishing Company. April 17, 1914 – via Google Books.
3. Taves, Brian (April 17, 2012). Thomas Ince: Hollywood's Independent Pioneer. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN   978-0813134222 – via Google Books.
4. "The Moving Picture World". World Photographic Publishing Company. April 17, 1916 – via Google Books.
5. Rainey, Buck (April 17, 1990). Those fabulous serial heroines: their lives and films. Scarecrow Press. ISBN   9780810819115 – via pages.101, 271, 294.
6. Edwards, Paul M. (11 March 2016). World War I on Film: English Language Releases through 2014. McFarland. ISBN   9781476620633.
7. "Motion Picture". 1913.
8. "Motion Picture". Macfadden-Bartell. April 17, 1915 – via Google Books.
9. Fujiwara, Chris (May 7, 2015). Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall. McFarland. ISBN   9781476608112 – via Google Books.

External links

• Hal Clements on IMDb