Clair Huffaker
American writer
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Clair Huffaker (September 26, 1926 – April 3, 1990) was an American screenwriter and author of westerns and other fiction, many of which were turned into films.[1]
BornSeptember 26, 1926
Magna, Utah, U.S.
DiedApril 3, 1990 (aged 63)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationsScreenwriter, author
Clair Huffaker | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 26, 1926 Magna, Utah, U.S. |
| Died | April 3, 1990 (aged 63) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupations | Screenwriter, author |
Biography
Born in Magna, Utah, Huffaker wrote of his childhood in One Time I Saw Morning Come Home. He attended Princeton and Columbia universities and the Sorbonne in Paris.[2] He served in the United States Navy in World War II and then studied in Europe before returning to America.[2][3] After the war, he worked in Chicago as an assistant editor for Time before turning to fiction.
Novels
- Badge for a Gunfighter (January 1, 1957)
- Badman (filmed as The War Wagon) (April 1, 1957)
- Rider from Thunder Mountain (November 1, 1957)
- Cowboy (1958) Novelization of the screenplay
- Flaming Lance (filmed as Flaming Star) (1958)
- Posse from Hell (1958)
- Guns of Rio Conchos (1958)
- Seven Ways from Sundown (1959)
- Good Lord, You're Upside Down! (1963)
- Nobody Loves a Drunken Indian (filmed as Flap (1967)
- The Cowboy and the Cossack (1973)
- One Time I Saw Morning Come Home (1974)
- Clair Huffaker's Profiles of the American West (1976)
Screenplays
- Seven Ways from Sundown (1960)
- Flaming Star (1960)
- Posse from Hell (1961)
- The Comancheros (1961)
- The Second Time Around (1961) as Cecil Dan Hansen
- Rio Conchos (1964)
- Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966)
- The War Wagon (1967)
- Hellfighters (1968)
- 100 Rifles (1969)
- Flap (1970)
- The Deserter (1971) from a story by himself
- Chino (1973) with others
Clair Huffaker also wrote scripts for television and was one of the writers on the Warner Brothers Western series Lawman[4]
