Stanley Clements

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BIRTHDAY

July 16, 1926

Long Island, NY

DIED

October 16, 1981

RECENT CREDITS

Hot Lead and Cold Feet (FILM) Jan. 1, 1978

Panic in the City (FILM) Feb. 1, 1968

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (FILM) Nov. 7, 1963

Tammy and the Doctor (FILM) Jan. 1, 1963

A Nice Little Bank That Should Be R... (FILM) Dec. 1, 1958

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American actor Stanley Clements pursued a showbiz career immediately upon graduation from Brooklyn's PS 49, appearing in vaudeville and in radio. After a lean year in which he supported himself as a panhandler, Clements was signed by 20th Century-Fox in 1941, earning choice juvenile roles from his first film (Accent on Love) onward. Stan's most memorable teenage role was as the tough kid "humanized" by Bing Crosby and encouraged to organize a boy's choir in the Oscar-winning Going My Way (1944). Due to his small stature, he was most often cast as jockeys, even as late as 1952's Boots Malone. In 1956, Clements was hired by Allied Artists to replace Leo Gorcey in the "Bowery Boys" B-picture series; though compelled to take second billing to comic patsy Huntz Hall, Stanley was ostensibly the group's leader, fast-talking wiseguy Duke Covaleske. Clements played Duke in six pictures, included the final Bowery Boys installment, In the Money (1958). After that, Stanley Clements concentrated on movie and TV supporting roles, including a characteristic appearance as a shifty shoe salesman on an early '60s installment of Leave It to Beaver.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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