Bob Clark

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Benjamin "Bob" Clark (August 5, 1939 – April 4, 2007) was an American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and actor.

He is best known for his contributions to the Canadian film industry in the 1970s and 1980s, including Black Christmas (1974), Torch's (1981), and A Christmas Story (1983).

With two additional nominations, he received three Genie Awards (two Best Direction and one Best Screenplay).

Early life and education

Clark was born in 1939 in New Orleans but grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, and later moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He grew up poor as his father died early in his childhood and his mother was a barmaid. Clark, who majored in philosophy at Catawba College, was granted a football scholarship to Hillsdale College in Michigan, where he played quarterback. He went back to study theater at the University of Miami, eventually turning down offers to play professional football. He appeared semi-pro for the Fort Lauderdale Black Knights for a short period.

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Career

Clark's career began with She-Man: A tale of Fixation in a gender-bender double feature. In the early 1970s, then fell into the horror genre. Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972), his first film, was a mix of comedy and graphic horror.

Clark and his collaborator, screenwriter and makeup artist Alan Ormsby, will revisit the zombie subgenre in 1972's Deathdream, also known by its alternative title, "Death of Night," a Vietnam War allegory that takes its inspiration from the classic short story "The Monkey's Paw." Black Christmas (1974), one of his finest films of the period, is remembered today as a pioneer of the modern slasher film genre. Clark had left Canada and then a tax haven for Americans, but these productions were modest by Hollywood standards but Clark was a big fish in that small pond of the Canadian film industry of the 1970s.

Clark produced the moonshine movie Moonrunners, which was used as source material for the TV series The Dukes of Hazzard. Clark produced The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood, a 2000 television film. Clark and others sued Warner Bros. over the studio's 2005 film The Dukes of Hazzard, winning a $17.5 million deal just days before the film's premiere.

Clark's latest success with the Sherlock Holmes film Murder, starring Christopher Plummer and Geneviève Bujold, which received five Genie Awards, including Best Achievement in Direction and Best Performance for both leads, is turning toward more serious territory. Jack Lemmon's return to Broadway in which Lemmon was nominated for an Academy Award and 11 Genies, as well as a win for Lemmon's appearance.

Clark returned to B-movie, but not before, co-writing, producing, and directing Porky's, a long-awaited personal project. Clark had a detailed outline based on his own experience in Florida, which he converted into a cassette recorder due to sickness, and collaborator Roger Swaybill said of listening to the tapes, "I became convinced that I was witnessing a pivotal moment in movie history." It was the funniest film clip I've ever heard." Despite being shot in the United States, the film will gross more money than any other English-language Canadian film. Porky's third best-selling film of all time in the United States, and by the time of the film's lengthy initial release, although short-lived, it had firmly established itself as one of the top-grossing films of all time in the United States. The film was (and briefly) the most successful comedy in film history. Porky's overwhelming success is credited with pioneering the teen sex comedy, which became extremely popular throughout the 1980s and into the millennium in films such as the American Pie series. Clark wrote, produced, and directed the film's first sequel, Porky's II: The Next Day (1983), which did not feature the title character, but introduced two new adversaries with perhaps greater impact, a blustering fundamentalist preacher, and a sleazy local politician who seduces a teenage girl. Clark has turned down a third film, Porky's Revenge!, which put Porky and the actors' sexual exploits back in the first film, as well as bringing everything full circle and bringing the gang's high school rowdy to a close.

Instead, he worked on A Christmas Story with Jean Shepherd, which critic Leonard Maltin described as "one of those rare films you can say is absolutely flawless in every way." Although not a box-office hit on its initial theatrical debut, A Christmas Story will continue to be a perennial holiday favorite due to repeated television airings and home video. My Summer Story, a joint venture in 1994, did not do well; Maltin said that the studio waited too long; Clark was forced to recast almost the entire film. PBS had three other film adaptations of the Parker family in the late 1980s, but without Clark's participation.

Clark continued to work in film until his death, with lower-budget fare mixed in with brief runs at higher targets. A Hollywood Reporter critic referred to his career as a "very odd blend of films" because he "at times was a director-for-hire and will do films that, to say the least, aren't outstanding." Baby Geniuses and Superbabies were two of his last works: Baby Geniuses and Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2.

Clark was nominated twice for the Razzie Awards as "Worst Director" for Rhinestone and Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2. He was on a remake of Porky's, and two of his other early horror films were slated for expensive remakes: Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things and Death Dream.

Clark was divorced and had two children, Michael and Ariel, as well as Michael and Ariel.

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