mazre6vboqb6amrq.jpgCLAUDE JARMAN Jr.
Information From IMDb
Date of Birth
27 September 1934, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Height
6' 3" (1.91 m)
Spouse
Katherine (1985 - present) 2 children
Mary Ann ? (1968 - 1983) (divorced); 2 children
Virginia (1959 - 1968) (divorced) 3 children
Daughters (with Mary Ann): Natalie & Vanessa.
Daughter (with Virginia): Elizabeth, sons: Claude Jarman III & Murray.
Twin daughters (with Katherine): Charlotte and Sarah.
Alternate Names:
Claude Jarman
Trivia
A child star of the late 1940s and early '50s who won a special Oscar award for his film debut Thryloi tou dasous (1946).
Other adult sidelines: Became an executive with Amway; served as executive director of the San Francisco Film Festival;
was executive producer of the rock-concert feature film Fillmore (1972); was manager of the San Francisco Opera House.
Made a special appearance at the The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998) (TV), sitting next to Jennifer Jones
in the past Academy Awards tribute sequence.
Last appearance as an actor, and his first in almost two decades, was in the TV mini-series "Centennial" (1978),
based on the James Michener novel.
Made a rare public appearance as one of some 60-plus past Oscar-winners at The 75th Annual Academy Awards (2003) (TV) (March 23, 2003)
Mini Biography
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Claude was the son of a railroad accountant.
With no intentions of becoming a screen actor at the time, 12-year-old Claude Jarman, Jr.
was discovered during an MGM nationwide talent search for their upcoming film, Thryloi tou dasous (1946),
and won the coveted role of Jody Baxter in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' classic story.
The critics raved over Claude's tremendously moving debut, and the boy was awarded
a miniature Oscar on Academy Awards night.
His family moved to California permanently, and Claude studied at the MGM studio school while being built up as a child star.
Sad to say, his film success would not last all that long. He seemed to lack the requisite good looks
and natural boyish appeal necessary to forge on ahead. His follow-up films were mediocre, however
, including High Barbaree (1947) with Van Johnson, The Sun Comes Up (1949) with Jeanette MacDonald,
and Roughshod (1949) starring Robert Sterling. His next best role would be in Intruder in the Dust (1949)
with David Brian and Juano Hernandez, but it wasn't enough to sustain his career.
By the early 1950s, MGM was loaning him out to Republic Studios in minor programmers and the
now-awkward teen lost ground rapidly. Discouraged, Claude returned to Nashville to complete high school
and then attended Vanderbilt University where he took a pre-law course.
Following his studies, he served three years in the Navy. By the time he returned to Hollywood in 1959,
he found no film work at all but did manage to guest on a few TV shows.
He later moved to behind-the-scenes work and made minor strides as a producer and film-festival executive director.
He once served as director of Cultural Affairs for the City of San Francisco.
IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
Filmography
Actor
1979 Centennial (TV mini-series) Earl Grebe – The Winds of Death (1979) … Earl Grebe (as Claude Jarman)
1960 The Best of the Post (TV series)– Early Americana (1960)
1956 The Great Locomotive Chase... Jacob Parrott
1953 Fair Wind to Java... Chess
1952 Hangman's Knot...Jamie Groves
1951 Inside Straight...Rip MacCool (age 16)
1950 Rio Grande...Trooper Jefferson 'Jeff' Yorke
1950 The Outriders...Roy Gort
1949 Intruder in the Dust...Chick Mallison
1949 Roughshod...Steve Phillips
1949 The Sun Comes Up...Jerry
1947 High Barbaree....Alec (Age 14)
1946 Thryloi tou dasous...Jody
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
1975 Mackintosh and T.J. (first assistant director)
Production Manager
1975 Mackintosh and T.J. (production manager)
Producer
1972 Fillmore (documentary) (executive producer)
Self
2003 The 75th Annual Academy Awards (TV special) Himself - Past Winner
1998 The 70th Annual Academy Awards (TV special) Himself - Past Winner (uncredited)
1994 The Story of Lassie (TV special documentary) Himself
1949 Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (documentary short) Himself (uncredited)
Archive Footage
1998 Classified X (TV documentary) Himself
1974 That's Entertainment! (documentary) Himself - at Banquet (uncredited)
1961 Disneyland (TV series documentary)
1956 MGM Parade (TV series)
