Hal Clements
{{short description|American actor}}
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 |date=August 2024}}
Clements was part of Kalem Studio's Jacksonville film crew.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UtFlWOHc7nYC&q=%22hal+clements%22&pg=PA241|title=The Sounds of Early Cinema|first1=Richard|last1=Abel|first2=Rick R.|last2=Altman|date=October 3, 2001|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=0253108705|via=Google Books}} In 1914, he directed and managed the studio's comedy unit in Santa Monica featuring Ruth Roland and John Brennan (actor).{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UEs_AAAAYAAJ&q=%22hal+clements%22&pg=PA671|title=The Moving Picture World|date=April 17, 1914|publisher=Chalmers Publishing Company|via=Google Books}} He portrayed General John Pershing in a Thomas Ince film.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ihpdK6a2AfAC&q=%22hal+clements%22&pg=PA143|title=Thomas Ince: Hollywood's Independent Pioneer|first=Brian|last=Taves|date=April 17, 2012|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=978-0813134222|via=Google Books}} In 1916 he was managing director of the new Gate City Feature Film Company.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1qgbAQAAMAAJ&q=%22hal+clements%22+obituary+film&pg=PA958|title=The Moving Picture World|date=April 17, 1916|publisher=World Photographic Publishing Company|via=Google Books}}
Filmography
- Battle of Pottsburg Bridge (1912)
- The Drummer Girl of Vicksburg (1912)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1913)
- The Grim Toll of War (1913){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=um5ZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22hal+clements%22|title=Those fabulous serial heroines: their lives and films|first=Buck|last=Rainey|date=April 17, 1990|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810819115|via=pages.101, 271, 294}}
- 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){{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Se6CwAAQBAJ&q=%22hal+clements%22&pg=PA150 |title = World War I on Film: English Language Releases through 2014|isbn = 9781476620633|last1 = Edwards|first1 = Paul M.|date = 11 March 2016| publisher=McFarland }}
- An American Live Wire (1918)
- Other Men's Wives (1919)
- An Innocent Adventuress (1919)
- The Siege of Petersburg
- The Sacrifice at the Spillway{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5jAXAQAAMAAJ&q=%22hal+clements%22&pg=RA5-PA144 |title = Motion Picture|year = 1913}}
- The Man Who Could Not Lose, a Biograph film, as Jack Carter{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JBIXAQAAMAAJ&q=%22hal+clements%22&pg=PA146|title=Motion Picture|date=April 17, 1915|publisher=Macfadden-Bartell.|via=Google Books}}
- Seventeen (1940)
- Wichita (1955){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tSX8EUOlqT0C&q=%22hal+clements%22&pg=PA308|title=Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall|first=Chris|last=Fujiwara|date=May 7, 2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476608112|via=Google Books}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0166226/ Hal Clements] on IMDb
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Category:American male film actors
Category:American male silent film actors
Category:20th-century American male actors
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