Bob Clark
Benjamin "Bob" Clark (* 5. August 1939 in New Orleans , Louisiana as Benjamin Clark , † 4. April 2007 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film director , screenwriter and film producer .
Life
After high school , Clark attended Hillsdale College in Michigan . He later studied theater at the University of Miami ; there he also met his frequent screenwriting partner Alan Ormsby . He made many of his early films in Canada .
Bob Clark and his 22-year-old son Ariel were killed on the night of April 4, 2007 in a head-on collision with a suspected drunk driver on the Pacific Coast Highway near Pacific Palisades , Los Angeles. Ariel Clark had starred in several of his father's films, but ultimately decided to study music. Bob Clark left behind another son, Michael Clark.
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Clark became famous for the comedy Merry Christmas and the drama A Summer in Manhattan , in which Jack Lemmon played the lead role and for which he received an Oscar nomination. The 1982 film Porky’s and the sequel Porky’s II - The Day After , which he also directed the following year, were particularly commercially successful . Since the mid-1990s, he has mainly worked for television.
Bob Clark was also nominated twice for the Golden Raspberry , namely as "worst director" for The Whiz and Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 .
Filmography (selection)
- 1967: She-Man
- 1972: Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
- 1972: Deathdream (Dead of Night)
- 1974: Jessy - The stairs to death (Black christmas)
- 1976: Breaking Point
- 1979: Sherlock Holmes: Murder on the Thames (Murder by Decree)
- 1980: A Summer in Manhattan (Tribute)
- 1982: Porky’s
- 1983: Porky's II: The Next Day
- 1983: Merry Christmas (A Christmas Story)
- 1984: The whiz kid (Rhinestone)
- 1985: The Rascal (Turk 182)
- 1987: Career with the left (From the hip)
- 1990: The Hard and the Delicate (Loose Cannons)
- 1993: The moment of truth (The American clock)
- 1994: Beware of the Neighbors (It runs in the family)
- 1996: Stolen memories: Secrets from the rose garden
- 1998: The ransom of Red Chief
- 1999: Baby Geniuses
- 2000: Swap Hollywood for Love (Catch a falling star)
- 2004: Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
Web links
- Bob Clark in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Director of A Christmas Story and son killed in PCH crash", see article in the Libertypost forum
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clark, Bob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Clark, Benjamin (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Orleans , Louisiana , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4, 2007 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California , United States |