- Born
- Died
- Birth nameStanislaw Klimowicz
- Nickname
- Stash
- Height1.70 m
- Stanley Clements realized he wanted a show-business career while he was in grammar school, and when he graduated he toured in vaudeville for two years. He then joined the touring company of Edward Bowes' (aka 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 than he had been getting. His career was interrupted by military service in World War II, and when he returned in 1945, he began appearing in lower-budgeted films. He starred in a series of action/detective pictures at Allied Artists for producer Ben Schwalb and director Edward Bernds, and when they were looking for a replacement for Leo Gorcey in the Bowery Boys series, they asked Clements to step in. 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.- IMDb mini biography by: A. Nonymous
- SpousesMaria Walek(December 17, 1951 - 1974) (divorced)Gloria Grahame(August 29, 1945 - June 1, 1948) (divorced)
- ChildrenSylvester Clements
- In 1964 Stan and his wife, Maria Walek, adopted her eight-year-old nephew, Sylvester, from Poland. The boy was the first child adopted from a country behind the Iron Curtain under a proxy adoption law.
- Died 11 days after the death of his first wife actress Gloria Grahame.
- He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II.
- He is best remembered as Leo Gorcey's replacement as the leader of the Bowery Boys in the final entries of Monogram's/Allied Artists' highly popular film series.
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