Clair Huffaker

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

Clair Huffaker (September 26, 1926 April 3, 1990) was a U.S. screenwriter and author of westerns and other fiction, many of which were turned into films.[1] He served in the United States Navy in World War II and then studied in Europe before returning to America.[2]

Novels

  • "Badge for a Gunfighter" (1957)
  • "Rider from Thunder Mountain" (1957)
  • "Cowboy" (1958) Novelization of Screenplay
  • "Flaming Lance" (1958)
  • "Posse from Hell" (1958)
  • "Guns of Rio Conchos" (1958)
  • "Badman" (aka The War Wagon after the Movie) (1958)
  • "Seven Ways from Sundown" (1959)
  • "Good Lord, You're Upside Down!" (1963)
  • "Nobody Loves a Drunken Indian" (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.

References

  1. "Cliff Huffaker". The New York Times.
  2. The One-Man Revolt in Hollywood Scheuer, Philip K. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 13 Aug 1967: c14.


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