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Occupation
  
Screenwriter, author

Name
  
Clair Huffaker


Role
  
Screenwriter

Children
  
Samantha C. Kirkeby

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Born
  
September 26, 1926 (
1926-09-26
)
Magna, Utah, U.S.

Died
  
April 3, 1990, Los Angeles, California, United States

Spouse
  
Norma Lee Fink (m. ?–1990)

Books
  
The Cowboy and the Cossack

Movies
  
The War Wagon, Flaming Star, The Comancheros, Rio Conchos, Posse from Hell

Similar People
  
William H Clothier, Burt Kennedy, Paul Wellman, James Edward Grant, Nunnally Johnson

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. He served in the United States Navy in World War II and then studied in Europe before returning to America.

Contents

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

  • "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.

    References

    Clair Huffaker Wikipedia
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