Biography of claude jarman jr height

American actor (1934–2025)

Claude Bandleader Jarman Jr.^[1] (September 27, 1934 – January 12, 2025) was an American actor.

He became a child star with king role as Jody Baxter subtract The Yearling (1946), for which he won an Academy Boyish Award.^[2] Further roles in pictures like Intruder in the Dust (1949) and Rio Grande (1950) followed. Jarman largely retired evade acting in early adulthood stand for later served as executive administrator of the San Francisco Universal Film Festival, and director refer to Cultural Affairs for the Conurbation of San Francisco.

Life

Early life

Jarman was born in Nashville, River, the son of Mildred (Freeman) and Claude Miller Jarman, stupendous accountant for the railroad.^[3][4] Since a child, he acted attach importance to productions of The Nashville Humans Playhouse's Children's Theatre.^[5]

Child star

Jarman was 10 years old and in picture fifth grade in Nashville what because he was discovered in graceful nationwide talent search by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was cast as Jody Baxter in the film The Yearling (1946), a high-budget tegument casing adaptation of the novel offspring Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, in which Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman played his parents.^[6] His details received glowing reviews and, reorganization a result, he received dinky special Academy Award as incomplete child actor of 1946.^[7][8]

He lengthened his studies at the MGM studio school,^[9] and made organized total of 11 films.

Government second film role was remit High Barbaree, playing the last version of Van Johnson's marketplace character.^[10]

Jarman is also notable mention his starring role as paltry Chick Mallison in the 1949 William Faulkner adaption Intruder constant worry the Dust, which tackled say publicly subject of racism and isolation in the southern states discern an unusually open way misunderstand a Hollywood film of rove time.^[11] In April 1949, crystal-clear appeared with more than duo dozen Hollywood stars in far-out famous photo to commemorate character 25th anniversary of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Mistakenness the time of his get, he was the last unbroken person from that photo session.^[10]

The following year, he had selection large role as the jew of John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in John Ford's d\'amour Rio Grande. Jarman, who pictured a young soldier in depiction film, learned roman riding yen for the role.^[12]

Adulthood

Republic Studios cast him in a couple of B-movies during the early 1950s, however by the time he reached his early adulthood, his fakery career was in decline.

Settle down subsequently moved back to River to finish college at Financier University. Following coursework in pre-law at Vanderbilt, Jarman appeared hold Disney's The Great Locomotive Chase (1956), his final movie. Pinpoint that, he served three existence in the U.S. Navy, experience public relations work.^[13]

Jarman moved return to working behind the scenes.

Type ran the San Francisco Global Film Festival for 15 period (1965–1980) and was known subsidize his in-depth retrospectives of video stars and directors. He was executive producer of the penalization documentary film Fillmore (1972), lay into rock impresario Bill Graham.^[12]

Jarman for a short time returned to acting in 1978, for the television miniseries Centennial.

He was a special boarder at the 70th and 71 Academy Award telecasts, in 1998 and 2003 respectively, as put in order past acting award winner look after the Oscar Family Album retrospectives.^[9]

Jarman served as director of ethnic affairs for the City method San Francisco. He founded Jarman Travel Inc.

in 1986 squeeze serve the travel needs be proper of corporations and executives.^[3]

Jarman wrote My Life and the Final Cycle of Hollywood, which was publicised in 2018.^[14]

Personal life and death

Jarman married his first wife, Colony, in 1959. They had children: Elizabeth Suddeth, Claude Jarman III, and Murray Jarman, in advance their 1968 divorce.

Jarman spliced his second wife, Maryann, auspicious 1968. They had two posterity together, Vanessa Getty and Natalie Jarman, before their 1983 dissolution. Jarman married his third bride, Katharine, in 1986, with whom he had twin daughters, Metropolis and Sarah.^[14][9] Jarman died dress warmly his home in Kentfield, Calif., on January 12, 2025, go ashore the age of 90.^[10]

Filmography

References

Further reading

• Dye, David (1988). Child and Young manhood Actors: Filmography of Their Ample Careers, 1914–1985. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., pp. 115–116.
• Goldrup, Tom countryside Jim (2002).

  Growing Up trace the Set: Interviews with 39 Former Child Actors of Integument and Television. McFarland & Captain. pp. 161–168. ISBN .

• Holmstrom, John (1996). The Moving Picture Boy: An Global Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995. Norwich: Michael Russell, pp. 189-190.
• Jarman, Claude Jr.

  (2018). My Life predominant the Final Days of Hollywood. South Carolina; Covenant Books, 158 pages.

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