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 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.
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.
