Clair Huffaker

American writer

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(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

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 ^[4]

References

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