Claude Jarman Jr.

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{{Short description|American actor (1934–2025)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Claude Jarman Jr.
| image = Claude Jarman Jr. Still.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = In ''Intruder In The Dust'' (1949)
| birth_name = Claude Miller Jarman Jr.
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|9|27|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Nashville, Tennessee]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2025|1|12|1934|9|27|mf=y}}
| death_place = [[Kentfield, California]], U.S.
| resting_place = [[Woodlawn Memorial Park (Nashville, Tennessee)|Woodlawn Memorial Park]], [[Nashville, Tennessee]], U.S. | 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}}
| children = 7, including [[Vanessa Getty]]
| occupation = {{hlist|Actor|businessman|producer|executive director}}
}}
[[File:Claude Jarman Jr in High Barbaree trailer.jpg|thumb|200px|Jarman Jr. in the trailer of the film ''[[High Barbaree (film)|High Barbaree]]'' (1947)]]
[[File:Rio Grande (1950) - publicity still 1.jpg|thumb|200px|[[John Wayne]], [[Maureen O'Hara]], and Jarman Jr. in ''[[Rio Grande (1950 film)|Rio Grande]]'' (1950)]]
'''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=[[Legacy.com]]|language=En-US}}</ref> (September 27, 1934 – January 12, 2025) was an American actor. He became a [[Child actor|child star]] with his role as Jody Baxter in ''[[The Yearling (1946 film)|The Yearling]]'' (1946), for which he won an [[Academy Juvenile Award]].<ref name="Wp"/> Further roles in films like ''[[Intruder in the Dust (1949 film)|Intruder in the Dust]]'' (1949) and ''[[Rio Grande (1950 film)|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 [[Government of San Francisco|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.<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 =[[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = June 24, 2018}} {{Open access}}</ref>

=== 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 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.<ref name="CJ">{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19600228&id=UBIsAAAAIBAJ&pg=750,5891784|title=Child actor in new career|publisher=Times Daily|date=February 28, 1960|access-date=May 3, 2014}}</ref> His performance received glowing reviews and, as a result, he received a [[Academy Juvenile Award|special Academy Award as outstanding child actor of 1946]].<ref>{{cite web |title=("Jarman" search results) |url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/Search/Nominations?nominationId=2016&view=1-Nominee-Alpha |website=Academy Awards Database |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date=June 25, 2018 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Claude Jarman, Jr.|work=Academy Awards Acceptance Speech Database|url=http://aaspeechesdb.oscars.org/link/019-7/|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|access-date=December 18, 2019}}</ref>

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 ''[[High Barbaree]]'', playing the younger version of [[Van Johnson]]'s main character.<ref name="HR"/>

Jarman is also notable for his starring role as teenager Chick Mallison in the 1949 [[William Faulkner]] adaption ''[[Intruder in the Dust (1949 film)|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.<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 [[John Wayne]] and [[Maureen O'Hara]] in [[John Ford]]'s western ''[[Rio Grande (1950 film)|Rio Grande]]''. Jarman, who portrayed a young soldier in the film, learned [[Trick riding|roman riding]] for the role.<ref name="sfc"/>

=== Adulthood ===
[[Republic Studios]] cast him in a couple of [[B-movie]]s 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.<ref name="CJarm">{{cite web | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2002&dat=19910526&id=7bciAAAAIBAJ&pg=4538,5151063 | title=Flashback – Claude Jarman Jr. | work=Beaver County Times | date=May 26, 1991 | access-date=May 3, 2014}}</ref>

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 (film)|Fillmore]]'' (1972), about rock impresario [[Bill Graham (promoter)|Bill Graham]].<ref name="sfc">{{cite web|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/claude-jarman-jr-dies-sffilm-20031562.php|title=Claude Jarman Jr., Oscar-winning child actor and SFFilm Festival figure, dies at 90|publisher=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|date=January 14, 2025|access-date=January 15, 2025}}</ref>

Jarman briefly returned to acting in 1978, for the television miniseries ''[[Centennial (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.<ref name="dukewayne.com"/>

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.<ref name="classicmoviekids.com"/>

Jarman wrote ''My Life and the Final Days of Hollywood'', which was published in 2018.<ref name="Jarman 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 met 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.<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 [[Kentfield, California]], 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> He is buried at [[Woodlawn Memorial Park (Nashville, Tennessee)|Woodlawn Memorial Park]] in [[Nashville, Tennessee]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jarman |first1=Claude |title=Obituary |url=https://monteschapelofthehills.com/obituary/Claude-JarmanJr |website=monteschapelofthehills |access-date=March 15, 2025}}</ref>

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;"
! Year
! Film<ref>{{cite web |title=Claude Jarman Jr. |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Person/32711-Claude-Jarman-Jr |work=[[American Film Institute]] |access-date=January 15, 2025}}</ref>
! Role
! Other notes
|-
||1946
| ''[[The Yearling (1946 film)|The Yearling]]''
| Jody
|[[Academy Juvenile Award]]
|-
||1947
| ''[[High Barbaree (film)|High Barbaree]]''
| Alec (age 14)
|
|-
|rowspan= 3|1949
| ''[[Intruder in the Dust (1949 film)|Intruder in the Dust]]''
| Chick Mallison
|
|-
| ''[[Roughshod (1949 film)|Roughshod]]''
| Steve Phillips
|
|-
| ''[[The Sun Comes Up]]''
| Jerry
|
|-
|rowspan= 2|1950
| ''[[Rio Grande (1950 film)|Rio Grande]]''
| Trooper Jefferson "Jeff" Yorke
|John Wayne's son
|-
| ''[[The Outriders]]''
| Roy Gort
|
|-
||1951
| ''[[Inside Straight (film)|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 (miniseries)|Centennial]]''
| Earl Grebe
| "The Winds of Death" – TV miniseries episode<ref name="Wp">{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/01/13/claude-jarman-jr/ |title=Claude Jarman Jr., child star in The Yearling, dies at 90 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=January 14, 2024 |language=en |access-date=January 15, 2024}}</ref>
|-
|}

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Dye, David (1988). ''Child and Youth Actors: Filmography of Their Entire Careers, 1914–1985''. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., pp. 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}}
* 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.
*Young, Gwenda. (2018). 'Clarence Brown: Hollywood's Forgotten Master'.388 pages. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

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