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.

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 Spillway⁷
The Man Who Could Not Lose, a Biograph film, as Jack Carter⁸
Seventeen (1940)
Wichita (1955)⁹

References

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

External links

Hal Clements on IMDb

[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.

[wire-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.

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