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.
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.
He served in the
United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare, maritime military branch, service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is the world's most powerful navy with the largest Displacement (ship), displacement, at 4.5 millio ...
in World War II and then studied in Europe before returning to America.
After the war, he worked in Chicago as an assistant editor for ''
Time
Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible process, irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequ ...
'' 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
A novelization (or novelisation) is a derivative novel that adapts the story of a work created for another medium, such as a film, TV series, stage play, comic book, or video game. Film novelizations were particularly popular before the advent ...
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
''Flaming Star'' is a 1960 American Western film starring Elvis Presley, Barbara Eden, and Steve Forrest, based on the book ''Flaming Lance'' (1958) by Clair Huffaker. Critics agreed that Presley gave one of his better acting performances as ...
'' (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
''100 Rifles'' is a 1969 American Western film directed by Tom Gries and starring Jim Brown, Raquel Welch and Burt Reynolds. It is based on Robert MacLeod's 1966 novel ''The Californio''. The film was shot in Spain. The original music score w ...
'' (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''
References
External links
*
1926 births
1990 deaths
United States Navy personnel of World War II
American male screenwriters
American Western (genre) novelists
20th-century American novelists
American male novelists
20th-century American male writers
People from Magna, Utah
20th-century American screenwriters
{{US-novelist-1920s-stub