Stanley Clements
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Stanley Clements (July 16, 1926 – October 16, 1981) was an American actor and comedian.
Stanley Clements was born Stanislaw Klimowicz in Long Island, New York. 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. He then joined the touring company of the Major Bowes Amateur Hour. 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. He was featured in the Bing Crosby hit Going My Way, and scored a great success as a jockey in the Alan Ladd feature Salty O'Rourke. His career was interrupted by military service in World War II, and when he returned, he began appearing in lower-budgeted films, including Johnny Holiday (cast against type as a psychopath). He starred in a series of action/detective pictures at Allied Artists for producer Ben Schwalb and director Edward Bernds.
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. Clements comfortably settled into the role of Huntz Hall's sidekick, beginning with Fighting Trouble, and co-starred in the final seven Bowery Boys comedies.
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. One of his last jobs was an appearance in a nationally advertised commercial for Pringle's potato chips.
Stanley Clements died of emphysema in Pasadena, California, and is buried at Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California.
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Second Taxi Driver
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Floyd Walters
Leave It to Beaver
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
The F.B.I.
Forrest Clegg
Get Smart
77 Sunset Strip
Dr. Kildare
Mr. Riccio
Cannon
Daniel Boone
Timbo
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Krebs
Gunsmoke
Brad
Gunsmoke
McInnerny
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Ed Jacobi
Gunsmoke
Red
Rawhide
Sgt. Willis
Rawhide
Sgt. Harper
Mister Ed
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Navy Log
City Detective
Cain's Hundred
Bellboy
Public Defender
Not for Hire
Letter to Loretta
Charlie
Cimarron Strip
Johnny Midnight
Romeo
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Reporter (uncredited)
General Electric Theater
Pete
Bronk
Mister Roberts
Tightrope
My Mother the Car
Straightaway
Official Detective
The Brothers Brannagan
Chick
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Young Boy (uncredited)
Cover Girl
Elevator Boy (uncredited)
Variety Girl
Stanley Clements (uncredited)
Hot Lead & Cold Feet
Saloon Man 2
Timber Tramps
'Hallback' Jack Riley
Panic in the City
Albert
The More the Merrier
Morton Rodakiewicz
I Wake Up Screaming
Newsboy (uncredited)
White Lightning
Mike Connors
Robbers' Roost
Chuck
Red Light
Carlson Hotel Bellhop
Hazard
Joe, Bellboy
Mr. Soft Touch
Yonzi
Hot News
Mark Miller
Wiretapper
Tony
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Danny (uncredited)
Tammy and the Doctor
Wally Day
Off Limits
Bullets Bradley
Destination Murder
Jackie Wales
Tall, Dark and Handsome
Detroit Harry Morrison Jr.
The Babe Ruth Story
Western Union Boy
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
Tommy Malone
Ghosts on the Loose
Stash
Boots Malone
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The Girl in the Case
Tuffy
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
Fitz
Saintly Sinners
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Bad Boy
Bitsy Johnson
Big Town Scandal
Tommy Malone
The Rocket Man
Bob
Salty O'Rourke
Johnny Cates
Going My Way
Tony Scaponi (uncredited)
Fighting Trouble
Duke Covelske
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
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Hot Shots
Duke Coveleskie
Canon City
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Last of the Desperados
Bert McGuire
Up In Smoke
Stanislaus 'Duke' Coveleskie
On the Sunny Side
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Spook Chasers
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In the Money
Stanislaus 'Duke' Coveleskie
Mad at the World
Marty aka Ignatz
Down in San Diego
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Accent on Love
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Pride of Maryland
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Racing Luck
Boots Warren
Jet Job
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