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Bob Clark

Highest Rated: 89% A Christmas Story (1983)

Lowest Rated: 0% SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)

Birthday: Aug 5, 1939

Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

The warm and personable director behind such seminal films as "A Christmas Story" and "Porky's," Bob Clark masterfully combined warm sentiment with a sharp edge. What other sex romp had such a sense of innocence; what other holiday classic conjured up such a vivid image of the f-word without actually uttering the phrase? Clark started in low-budget horror films, and was also credited with jump-starting the slasher movie craze with his darkly comic, "Black Christmas" - his other less-than-jolly yuletide movie. While later efforts like "Baby Geniuses" failed to live up to his earlier output, Clark was in the middle of a revival of his early hits, with a remake of "Black Christmas" already on DVD and, with the help of radio mogul Howard Stern, a planned remake of "Porky's" in the works. All this came to a shocking end on April 4, 2007, the 67-year-old director was tragically killed in an automobile accident, along with his 22-year-old son along the Pacific Coast Highway in Los Angeles.

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Highest-Rated Movies

89% 89% A Christmas Story Watchlist
86% 64% Murder by Decree
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79% 65% Deathdream
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47% 40% Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
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38% 41% Popcorn
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33% 57% Porky's
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30% 61% From the Hip
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20% 55% Turk 182!
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19% 36% Rhinestone
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Bob Clark

Bob Clark SUPERBABIES: BABY GENIUSES 2, Steven Paul, Bob Clark, 2004, (c) Triumph Releasing BABY GENIUSES, director Bob Clark, 1999, ©TriStar Pictures / MURDER BY DECREE, Christopher Plummer, James Mason, director Bob Clark, on-set, 1979, (c) Avco Embassy BABY GENIUSES, director Bob Clark, on set, 1999. (c)TriStar Pictures TRIBUTE, director Bob Clark, Jack Lemmon on set, 1980, TM & Copyright (c) 20th Century Fox Film Corp. SUPERBABIES: BABY GENIUSES 2, Bob Clark (center), 2004, (c) Triumph Releasing View more photos

Filmography

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Black Christmas 13% 38% 2006 Executive Producer Karate Dog 27% 2004 Director SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2 0% 25% 2004 Director Now & Forever 18% 81% 2001 Director I'll Remember April 61% 2000 Director Catch a Falling Star 2000 Director The Dukes of Hazzard -- Hazzard in Hollywood 86% 2000 Writer, Executive Producer Baby Geniuses 2% 25% 1999 Director, Screenwriter The Ransom of Red Chief 47% 1998 Director My Neighbor's Daughter 60% 1997 Town Mayor Actor Stolen Memories: Secrets From the Rose Garden 1996 Director Fudge-A-Mania 1995 Director Derby 1995 Director It Runs in the Family 44% 1994 Director, Screenwriter The American Clock 1993 Director Popcorn 38% 41% 1991 Producer Loose Cannons 0% 27% 1990 Director, Screenwriter Amazing Stories: The Movie III 1990 Director From the Hip 30% 61% 1987 Director, Screenwriter Turk 182! 20% 55% 1985 Director Rhinestone 19% 36% 1984 Director Porky's II: The Next Day 10% 40% 1983 Director, Producer A Christmas Story 89% 89% 1983 Director, Writer, Producer Porky's 33% 57% 1981 Director, Producer Tribute 52% 1980 Director
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