Clair Huffaker

Clair Huffaker
Born(1926-09-26)September 26, 1926
Magna, Utah, U.S.
DiedApril 3, 1990(1990-04-03) (aged 63)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Screenwriter, author

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]

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

Clair Huffaker also wrote scripts for television and was one of the writers on the Warner Brothers Western series Lawman[4]

References

  1. ^ "Cliff Huffaker". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-03-30.
  2. ^ a b "Clair Huffaker; Wrote Western Books, Scripts". Los Angeles Times. 6 April 1990. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  3. ^ Scheuer, Philip K. (Aug 13, 1967). "The One-Man Revolt in Hollywood". Los Angeles Times. p. c14.
  4. ^ "Clair Huffaker". Fantasticfiction.com. Retrieved 29 August 2020.


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