Clem Beauchamp
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Clem Beauchamp (1898 - 1992), also known as Jerry Drew in his 20s and early 30s acting career, first worked as a second unit director in 1935, netting the Academy Award for Best Assistant Director for his work on "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer". He was nominated in the same category the following year for "The Last of the Mohicans".
He went on to work on several Tarzan and Dick Tracy movies, eventually becoming a management|production manager. In this capacity, he worked on such films as Fred Zinnemann's “The Men” (1950) and “High Noon” (1952), “Death of a Salesman” (1951) and most of Stanley Kramer’s heyday output, including “The Defiant Ones” (1958), “Judgment at Nuremberg” (1961) and “It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” (1963).
Beauchamp told The Literary Digest his name was pronounced "Bo-shawn, both syllables accented alike." (Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.)
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