Stanley Clements (born Stanislaw Klimowicz) (July 16, 1926 - October 16, 1981) was an American actor and comedian. Events 622 - The beginning of the Islamic calendar. 1054 - Three Roman legates fractured relations between the Western and Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience primarily by making them laugh
Stanley Clements was born in Long Island, New York. Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, USA, its western shores directly across from Manhattan, from which the island stretches Young Stan realized that he wanted a show-business career while he was in grammar school, and when he graduated from college he toured in vaudeville for two years. Vaudeville was a Genre of variety entertainment prevalent on the stage in the United States and Canada, from the early 1880s He then joined the touring company of the Major Bowes Amateur Hour. Major Bowes Amateur Hour, radio 's best-known talent show was one of the most popular programs broadcast in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s In 1941, he was signed to a contract by 20th Century Fox and appeared in several B films for the studio.
After a short stint with the East Side Kids, he set out on his own again, this time landing roles in more prestigious pictures (his breakthrough role was as a jockey in the Alan Ladd feature "Salty O'Rourke"). The East Side Kids were a group of actors who made a series of films and serials released by Monogram Pictures from 1940 through 1945. His career was interrupted by military service in World War II, and when he returned, he began appearing in lower-budgeted films. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including He starred in a series of action/detective pictures at Allied Artists for producer Ben Schwalb and director Edward Bernds. Allied Artists Pictures Corporation started life as a Subsidiary of Monogram Pictures in 1946 as an outlet for films with bigger names and higher budgets than Edward Bernds ( July 12, 1905 - May 20, 2000) was an American screenwriter and director born in Chicago Illinois.
Schwalb soon became staff producer for The Bowery Boys, and when he needed a replacement for Leo Gorcey in 1956, he asked Clements to step in. The Bowery Boys was a group of actors who made a series of films released by Monogram Pictures from 1946 through 1958. Leo Bernard Gorcey ( June 3, 1917 – June 2, 1969) was an American stage and movie actor who became famous for portraying on film Clements comfortably settled into the role of Huntz Hall's sidekick, and co-starred in the final seven Bowery Boys comedies. Henry "Huntz" Hall ( August 15, 1919 – January 30, 1999) was an American radio, theatrical, and motion
The series finally ended in 1958, and Clements went on to a steady career of supporting roles in film and TV until his death from emphysema in 1981. Emphysema is a chronic obstructive Pulmonary disease ( COPD) formerly termed a chronic obstructive Lung disease (COLD One of his last jobs was an appearance in a nationally advertised commercial for Pringle's potato chips. Pringles are a Brand of potato-based salty snacks produced by Procter & Gamble.
Stanley Clements died in Pasadena, California, and is buried at Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California. Pasadena ( is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. At, Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside California is the third-largest cemetery managed by the National Cemetery Administration, and since 2000 has been the Riverside is the County seat of Riverside County, California, United States.
External links
Stanley Clements at the Internet Movie Database
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