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| caption = In ''Intruder In The Dust'' (1949) | caption = In ''Intruder In The Dust'' (1949)
| birth_name = Claude Miller Jarman Jr.
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|9|27|mf=y}} | birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|9|27|mf=y}}
| birth_place = ], U.S. | birth_place = ], U.S.
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| death_place = ], U.S. | death_place = ], U.S.
| years_active = 1946–1956, 1979 | years_active = {{hlist|1946–1956|1979}}
| spouse = {{marriage|Virginia Murray|1958|1968|end=div}}<br />{{marriage|Maryann de Lichtenberg|1983|1984|end=div}}<br />{{marriage|Katharine Stuart|1986}} | spouse = {{marriage|Virginia Murray|1958|1968|end=div}}<br />{{marriage|Maryann de Lichtenberg|1983|1984|end=div}}<br />{{marriage|Katharine Stuart|1986}}
| children = 7 | children = 7, including ]
| occupation = {{hlist|Actor|businessman|producer|executive director}} | occupation = {{hlist|Actor|businessman|producer|executive director}}
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'''Claude Jarman Jr.''' (September 27, 1934 – January 12, 2025) was an American actor. He became a ] with his role as Jody Baxter in '']'' (1946), for which he won an ].<ref name="wp"/> Further roles in films like '']'' (1949) and '']'' (1950) followed. Jarman largely retired from acting in early adulthood and later served as executive director of the ], and ]. '''Claude Miller Jarman Jr.'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sfgate/name/claude-jarman-obituary?id=57299133|title=Claude Jarman Obituary|date=January 17, 2025|website=]|language=En-US}}</ref> (September 27, 1934 – January 12, 2025) was an American actor. He became a ] with his role as Jody Baxter in '']'' (1946), for which he won an ].<ref name="Wp"/> Further roles in films like '']'' (1949) and '']'' (1950) followed. Jarman largely retired from acting in early adulthood and later served as executive director of the ], and ].


== Life == == Life ==
===Early life=== ===Early life===
Jarman was born in ].<ref name="classicmoviekids.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.classicmoviekids.com/jarman.htm |title=classicmoviekids.com |website=Classicmoviekids.com |access-date=October 26, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919080415/http://www.classicmoviekids.com/jarman.htm |archive-date=September 19, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> As a child, he acted in productions of The Nashville Community Playhouse's Children's Theatre.<ref>{{cite news |title=Local Boy, 10, Signs Contract For Hollywood Screen Test |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21258480/claude_jarman_jr/ |work=The Tennessean |date=February 27, 1945 |location=Tennessee, Nashville |page=3 |via =]|access-date = June 24, 2018}} {{Open access}}</ref> Jarman was born in ], the son of Mildred (Freeman) and Claude Miller Jarman, an accountant for the railroad.<ref name="classicmoviekids.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.classicmoviekids.com/jarman.htm |title=classicmoviekids.com |website=Classicmoviekids.com |access-date=October 26, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919080415/http://www.classicmoviekids.com/jarman.htm |archive-date=September 19, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MswuEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Claude+Miller+Jarman%22&pg=PT10 | isbn=978-1-64003-668-0 | title=My Life and the Final Days of Hollywood | date=April 3, 2018 | publisher=Covenant Books }}</ref> As a child, he acted in productions of The Nashville Community Playhouse's Children's Theatre.<ref>{{cite news |title=Local Boy, 10, Signs Contract For Hollywood Screen Test |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21258480/claude_jarman_jr/ |work=The Tennessean |date=February 27, 1945 |location=Tennessee, Nashville |page=3 |via =]|access-date = June 24, 2018}} {{Open access}}</ref>


=== Child star === === Child star ===
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He continued his studies at the MGM studio school,<ref name="dukewayne.com">{{cite web | url=http://www.dukewayne.com/showthread.php?t%3D5144 | title=Pals Of The Saddle – Claude Jarman Jr. | website=DukeWayne.com | date=February 2, 2011 | access-date=September 2, 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023511/http://www.dukewayne.com/showthread.php?t=5144 | archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> and made a total of 11 films. His second film role was in '']'', playing the younger version of ]'s main character.<ref name="HR"/> He continued his studies at the MGM studio school,<ref name="dukewayne.com">{{cite web | url=http://www.dukewayne.com/showthread.php?t%3D5144 | title=Pals Of The Saddle – Claude Jarman Jr. | website=DukeWayne.com | date=February 2, 2011 | access-date=September 2, 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023511/http://www.dukewayne.com/showthread.php?t=5144 | archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> and made a total of 11 films. His second film role was in '']'', playing the younger version of ]'s main character.<ref name="HR"/>


Jarman is also notable for his starring role as teenager Chick Mallison in the 1949 ] adaption '']'', which tackled the subject of racism and segregation in the southern states in an unusually open way for a Hollywood film of that time.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.palmspringslife.com/breaking-barriers/ |title=Breaking Barriers: Claude Jarman, Jr. speaks about the racial overtones of "Intruder in the Dust" at Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival |work=Palm Springs Life |date=2016-05-08 |access-date=2025-01-15}}</ref> In April 1949, he appeared with more than four dozen Hollywood stars in a famous photo to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. At the time of his death, he was the last surviving person from that photo session.<ref name="HR"/> Jarman is also notable for his starring role as teenager Chick Mallison in the 1949 ] adaption '']'', which tackled the subject of racism and segregation in the southern states in an unusually open way for a Hollywood film of that time.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.palmspringslife.com/breaking-barriers/ |title=Breaking Barriers: Claude Jarman, Jr. speaks about the racial overtones of "Intruder in the Dust" at Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival |work=Palm Springs Life |date=May 8, 2016 |access-date=January 15, 2025}}</ref> In April 1949, he appeared with more than four dozen Hollywood stars in a famous photo to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. At the time of his death, he was the last surviving person from that photo session.<ref name="HR"/>


The following year, he had another large role as the son of ] and ] in ]'s western '']''. Jarman, who portrayed a young soldier in the film, learned ] for the role.<ref name="sfc"/> The following year, he had another large role as the son of ] and ] in ]'s western '']''. Jarman, who portrayed a young soldier in the film, learned ] for the role.<ref name="sfc"/>
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==Personal life and death== ==Personal life and death==
Jarman married his first wife, Virginia, in 1959. They had three children: Elizabeth Suddeth, Claude Jarman III, and Murray Jarman, before their 1968 divorce. Jarman married his second wife, Maryann, in 1968. They had two daughters together, ] and Natalie Jarman, before their 1983 divorce. Jarman married his third wife, Katharine, in 1986, with whom he had twin daughters, Charlotte and Sarah.<ref name="Jarman 2018">{{cite book |last1=Jarman |first1=Claude |title=My Life and the Final Days of Hollywood |date=2018 |publisher=Covenant Books, Incorporated |isbn=9781640036680 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MswuEAAAQBAJ |access-date=14 May 2022}}</ref><ref name="dukewayne.com"/> Jarman died at his home in ], on January 12, 2025, at the age of 90.<ref name="HR">{{cite news |last1=Barnes |first1=Mike |title=Claude Jarman Jr., Young Star of ‘The Yearling,’ Dies at 90 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/claude-jarman-dead-yearling-juvenile-oscar-1236107296/ |access-date=13 January 2025 |publisher=The Hollywood Reporter |date=12 January 2025}}</ref> Jarman married his first wife, Virginia, in 1959. They had three children: Elizabeth Suddeth, Claude Jarman III, and Murray Jarman, before their 1968 divorce. Jarman married his second wife, Maryann, in 1968. They had two daughters together, ] and Natalie Jarman, before their 1983 divorce. Jarman married his third wife, Katharine, in 1986, with whom he had twin daughters, Charlotte and Sarah.<ref name="Jarman 2018">{{cite book |last1=Jarman |first1=Claude |title=My Life and the Final Days of Hollywood |date=2018 |publisher=Covenant Books, Incorporated |isbn=9781640036680 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MswuEAAAQBAJ |access-date=May 14, 2022}}</ref><ref name="dukewayne.com"/> Jarman died at his home in ], on January 12, 2025, at the age of 90.<ref name="HR">{{cite news |last1=Barnes |first1=Mike |title=Claude Jarman Jr., Young Star of 'The Yearling,' Dies at 90 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/claude-jarman-dead-yearling-juvenile-oscar-1236107296/ |access-date=January 13, 2025 |publisher=The Hollywood Reporter |date=January 12, 2025}}</ref>


==Filmography== ==Filmography==
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==Further reading== ==Further reading==
⚫ * {{cite book|last=Goldrup|first=Tom and Jim|title=Growing Up on the Set: Interviews with 39 Former Child Actors of Film and Television|date=2002|publisher=McFarland & Co.|isbn=1476613702|pages=161–168}}
⚫ * Holmstrom, John (1996). ''The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995''. Norwich: Michael Russell, p.&nbsp;189-190.
* Dye, David (1988). ''Child and Youth Actors: Filmography of Their Entire Careers, 1914–1985''. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., pp.&nbsp;115–116. * Dye, David (1988). ''Child and Youth Actors: Filmography of Their Entire Careers, 1914–1985''. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., pp.&nbsp;115–116.
⚫ * {{Cite book |last=Goldrup |first=Tom and Jim |date=2002 |title=Growing Up on the Set: Interviews with 39 Former Child Actors of Film and Television |publisher=McFarland & Co. |isbn=1476613702|pages=161–168}}
⚫ * Jarman Jr., Claude (2018). ''My Life and the Final Days of Hollywood''. South Carolina; Covenant Books, 158 pages.
⚫ * Holmstrom, John (1996). ''The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995''. Norwich: Michael Russell, pp.&nbsp;189-190.
⚫ * Jarman, Claude Jr. (2018). ''My Life and the Final Days of Hollywood''. South Carolina; Covenant Books, 158 pages.


==External links== ==External links==
{{Portal|Biography|United States|Film}} {{Portal|Biography|United States|Film}}
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* {{IMDb name|0418741}} * {{IMDb name|0418741}}
* {{discogs artist|Claude Jarman, Jr}} * {{discogs artist|Claude Jarman, Jr}}

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American actor (1934–2025)

Claude Jarman Jr.
In Intruder In The Dust (1949)
BornClaude Miller Jarman Jr.
(1934-09-27)September 27, 1934
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
DiedJanuary 12, 2025(2025-01-12) (aged 90)
Kentfield, California, U.S.
Occupations
  • Actor
  • businessman
  • producer
  • executive director
Years active
  • 1946–1956
  • 1979
Spouse(s) Virginia Murray ​ ​(m. 1958; div. 1968)​
Maryann de Lichtenberg ​ ​(m. 1983; div. 1984)​
Katharine Stuart ​(m. 1986)​
Children7, including Vanessa Getty
Jarman Jr. in the trailer of the film High Barbaree (1947)
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, and Jarman Jr. in Rio Grande (1950)

Claude Miller Jarman Jr. (September 27, 1934 – January 12, 2025) was an American actor. He became a child star with his role as Jody Baxter in The Yearling (1946), for which he won an Academy Juvenile Award. Further roles in films like Intruder in the Dust (1949) and Rio Grande (1950) followed. Jarman largely retired from acting in early adulthood and later served as executive director of the San Francisco International Film Festival, and director of Cultural Affairs for the City of San Francisco.

Life

Early life

Jarman was born in Nashville, Tennessee, the son of Mildred (Freeman) and Claude Miller Jarman, an accountant for the railroad. As a child, he acted in productions of The Nashville Community Playhouse's Children's Theatre.

Child star

Jarman was 10 years old and in the fifth grade in Nashville when he was discovered in a nationwide talent search by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was cast as Jody Baxter in the film The Yearling (1946), a high-budget film adaptation of the novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, in which Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman played his parents. His performance received glowing reviews and, as a result, he received a special Academy Award as outstanding child actor of 1946.

He continued his studies at the MGM studio school, and made a total of 11 films. His second film role was in High Barbaree, playing the younger version of Van Johnson's main character.

Jarman is also notable for his starring role as teenager Chick Mallison in the 1949 William Faulkner adaption Intruder in the Dust, which tackled the subject of racism and segregation in the southern states in an unusually open way for a Hollywood film of that time. In April 1949, he appeared with more than four dozen Hollywood stars in a famous photo to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. At the time of his death, he was the last surviving person from that photo session.

The following year, he had another large role as the son of John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in John Ford's western Rio Grande. Jarman, who portrayed a young soldier in the film, learned roman riding for the role.

Adulthood

Republic Studios cast him in a couple of B-movies during the early 1950s, but by the time he reached his early adulthood, his acting career was in decline. He subsequently moved back to Tennessee to finish college at Vanderbilt University. Following coursework in pre-law at Vanderbilt, Jarman appeared in Disney's The Great Locomotive Chase (1956), his final movie. After that, he served three years in the U.S. Navy, doing public relations work.

Jarman moved to working behind the scenes. He ran the San Francisco International Film Festival for 15 years (1965–1980) and was known for his in-depth retrospectives of movie stars and directors. He was executive producer of the music documentary film Fillmore (1972), about rock impresario Bill Graham.

Jarman briefly returned to acting in 1978, for the television miniseries Centennial. He was a special guest at the 70th and 75th Academy Award telecasts, in 1998 and 2003 respectively, as a past acting award winner at the Oscar Family Album retrospectives.

Jarman served as director of cultural affairs for the City of San Francisco. He founded Jarman Travel Inc. in 1986 to serve the travel needs of corporations and executives.

Jarman wrote My Life and the Final Days of Hollywood, which was published in 2018.

Personal life and death

Jarman married his first wife, Virginia, in 1959. They had three children: Elizabeth Suddeth, Claude Jarman III, and Murray Jarman, before their 1968 divorce. Jarman married his second wife, Maryann, in 1968. They had two daughters together, Vanessa Getty and Natalie Jarman, before their 1983 divorce. Jarman married his third wife, Katharine, in 1986, with whom he had twin daughters, Charlotte and Sarah. Jarman died at his home in Kentfield, California, on January 12, 2025, at the age of 90.

Filmography

Year Film Role Other notes
1946 The Yearling Jody Academy Juvenile Award
1947 High Barbaree Alec (age 14)
1949 Intruder in the Dust Chick Mallison
Roughshod Steve Phillips
The Sun Comes Up Jerry
1950 Rio Grande Trooper Jefferson "Jeff" Yorke John Wayne's son
The Outriders Roy Gort
1951 Inside Straight Rip MacCool (age 16)
1952 Hangman's Knot Jamie Groves
1953 Fair Wind to Java Chess
1956 The Great Locomotive Chase Jacob Parrott Andrews' Raiders USA: TV title
1979 Centennial Earl Grebe "The Winds of Death" – TV miniseries episode

References

  1. "Claude Jarman Obituary". Legacy.com. January 17, 2025.
  2. ^ "Claude Jarman Jr., child star in The Yearling, dies at 90". The Washington Post. January 14, 2024. Retrieved January 15, 2024.
  3. ^ "classicmoviekids.com". Classicmoviekids.com. Archived from the original on September 19, 2011. Retrieved October 26, 2016.
  4. My Life and the Final Days of Hollywood. Covenant Books. April 3, 2018. ISBN 978-1-64003-668-0.
  5. "Local Boy, 10, Signs Contract For Hollywood Screen Test". The Tennessean. Tennessee, Nashville. February 27, 1945. p. 3. Retrieved June 24, 2018 – via Newspapers.com. [REDACTED]
  6. "Child actor in new career". Times Daily. February 28, 1960. Retrieved May 3, 2014.
  7. "("Jarman" search results)". Academy Awards Database. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
  8. "Claude Jarman, Jr". Academy Awards Acceptance Speech Database. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 18, 2019.
  9. ^ "Pals Of The Saddle – Claude Jarman Jr". DukeWayne.com. February 2, 2011. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
  10. ^ Barnes, Mike (January 12, 2025). "Claude Jarman Jr., Young Star of 'The Yearling,' Dies at 90". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 13, 2025.
  11. "Breaking Barriers: Claude Jarman, Jr. speaks about the racial overtones of "Intruder in the Dust" at Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival". Palm Springs Life. May 8, 2016. Retrieved January 15, 2025.
  12. ^ "Claude Jarman Jr., Oscar-winning child actor and SFFilm Festival figure, dies at 90". San Francisco Chronicle. January 14, 2025. Retrieved January 15, 2025.
  13. "Flashback – Claude Jarman Jr". Beaver County Times. May 26, 1991. Retrieved May 3, 2014.
  14. ^ Jarman, Claude (2018). My Life and the Final Days of Hollywood. Covenant Books, Incorporated. ISBN 9781640036680. Retrieved May 14, 2022.
  15. "Claude Jarman Jr". American Film Institute. Retrieved January 15, 2025.

Further reading

  • Dye, David (1988). Child and Youth Actors: Filmography of Their Entire Careers, 1914–1985. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., pp. 115–116.
  • Goldrup, Tom and Jim (2002). Growing Up on the Set: Interviews with 39 Former Child Actors of Film and Television. McFarland & Co. pp. 161–168. ISBN 1476613702.
  • Holmstrom, John (1996). The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995. Norwich: Michael Russell, pp. 189-190.
  • Jarman, Claude Jr. (2018). My Life and the Final Days of Hollywood. South Carolina; Covenant Books, 158 pages.

External links

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