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Born May 1, 1912 in Oakland, California, Clancy began his theatrical career by traveling with the stock companies at age 16. He started college in 1930, enrolling in the newly formed Speech and Drama Department. Jim Clancy was soon touted in the Campus Newspaper as “the best student ever turned out by the Drama Department.” Clancy received his Bachelor’s degree in 1935 and was made a member of the faculty one year later. While teaching at SJSU he simultaneously attended graduate school and received his Masters Degree from Stanford University. His successful academic career was interrupted by WWII during which he became a Captain in the U.S. Army Air Corps Intelligence. Returning from the European campaign in 1946, he resumed one of the most intense and productive academic careers seen at SJSU, or any university. For several years he was the editor of the EDUCATIONAL THEATRE JOURNAL and received a prestigious Ford Foundation in 1959 for outstanding work in theatre.
In 1949 he married Stella Pinoris (above with Jim), a drama student who had received her degree the previous year. The new Clancy family quickly grew with the birth of three children (Patrick, Steven, and Elena). Following his tenure at San Jose State, Dr. Clancy held positions at University of Iowa, Stanford University, Dartmouth (in connection with the opening of the Hopkins Center for the Arts) and Cornell. While at both Dartmouth and Cornell, he started two Equity summer theater companies, which are still operating today. He retired in 1977, but continued to teach and direct at universities in Kansas City and Austin, Texas. He returned to California where he occasionally taught and directed at Santa Clara University, UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis and SJSU. Jim Clancy's theatrical legacy at SJSU includes 32 roles as an actor and an astonishing 65 productions as a director. (A sampling of photos from SJSU Clancy productions follows.)
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Jim Clancy, Director1934 Three to Get Ready 1935 All For Love 1936 Olympia 1935 The Beaux Stratagem 1935 Elizabeth the Queen 1935 Weep Jesus 1939 Beggar on Horseback 1935 Trouble in My Prayer 1935 Twelfth Night 1940 Once in a Lifetime 1935 Henry IV 1935 Heartbreak House 1935 Masses and the Man 1935 Hell Bent Fer Heaven 1935 Much Ado About Nothing 1941 The Father 1935 Holiday 1935 The Torchbearers 1935 The Rivals 1946 Tonight We Improvise 1935 Duchess of Malfi 1947 Doctor in Spite of Himself 1935 The Assassin 1935 Romersholm 1935 Alcestis 1948 Medea 1935 The Changeling 1935 The Wanhope Building 1935 The Circle 1935 King Lear 1949 Agamemnon 1935 Love for Love 1935 Rose of the Rancho 1935 The Sea Gull 1950 The Heiress 1951 Antigone 1935 The Flies 1935 The Three Sisters 1935 Phedre 1935 Jenny Kissed Me 1935 Curious Savage 1935 Othello 1952 Nights of Wrath 1935 Trickery of Scapin 1953 Eurydice 1935 The Sheep Well 1954 Volpone 1935 Oedipus Rex 1935 Oedipus at Colonus 1935 Antigone 1935 School for Wives 1955 He Who Gets Slapped 1935 Madwoman of Chaillot 1956 Each in His Own Way 1935 Blood Wedding 1935 The Man of Ashes 1935 The Skin of Our Teeth 1935 Shadow and Substance 1957 Green Grow the Lilacs 1935 Macbeth 1935 The World is Round 1958 The Caucasian Chalk Circle 1935 The Italian Straw Hat 1935 The Misanthrope
Jim Clancy, Actor1930 Judas Iscariot 1935 Courage 1935 He Who Gets Slapped 1931 Queen's Husband 1935 Houseparty 1932 Romeo and Juliet 1933 Lilliom 1934 Hedda Gabbler 1935 Three to Get Ready 1935 School for Scandal 1935 Hamlet 1935 Death Takes a Holiday 1935 Hay Fever 1935 Chimera 1936 The Guardsman 1935 There's Always Juliet 1937 Peer Gynt 1938 Squaring the Circle 1935 Arms and the Man 1935 Weep Jesus 1939 Night Must Fall 1935 Our Town 1941 Hamlet 1946 The Glass Menagerie 1947 The Guardsman 1948 Androcles and the Lion 1935 Romantic Young lady 1935 King Lear 1950 The Glass Menagerie 1951 Accidentally Yours 1952 Trickery of Scapin 1955 Hamlet |
