Bob Clark Biography

Fast Facts

• Attended North Carolina's Catawba College on a football scholarship, and later played semipro football for the Fort Lauderdale Black Knights
• Made his feature directing debut with the 1967 transvestite comedy She-Man, but came to prominence with cult horror favorites Deathdream (AKA Dead of Night, 1972) and Black Christmas (1974)
• Segued successfully into comedy films in the '80s with the offbeat classics Porky's (1982) and A Christmas Story (1983)
• Nominated for Razzies as Worst Director for 1984's Rhinestone and 2004's SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2
• Won a multi-million dollar settlement against Warner Bros
• regarding the 2005 film adaptation of the '70s TV show The Dukes of Hazzard
• Clark had produced the 1976 film Moonrunners, which was the basis for the series
• He claimed that the studio had never acquired the rights to turn the property into a movie
• He and son Ariel Hanrath-Clark were killed April 4, 2007, in a head-on collision with an allegedly drunken driver on California's Pacific Coast Highway
• Was planning to direct a remake of his 1972 zombie comedy Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things at the time of his death