Date of Birth
5 August 1939,
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Date of Death
4 April 2007, Pacific Palisades, California, USA (car accident)
Birth Name
Benjamin Clark
Trivia
Educated at Hillsdale College in Michigan.
Frequently cast Kim Cattrall.
Often made period films (Porky's (1982) in 1954, A Christmas Story (1983) in the '30s).
It was a full twenty years between his two Razzie Nominations for Worst Director. In 1985 he was nominated for the film Rhinestone (1984), then in 2005 he was nominated again for SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004).
Studied theater at the University of Miami, where he also met his frequent screenwriter partner Alan Ormsby.
Co-writer Roger Swaybill often talked about how Clark dictated the outline for the movie into a cassette recorder while sick.
Died with his son, Ariel Hanrath-Clark, in a head-on crash with a vehicle that steered into the wrong lane (April 4, 2007); the driver of the other car was later charged with driving without a driver's license and while intoxicated.
Avid and superior poker player. Once hit a Royal Flush playing video poker on the strip won $82,000 for a two dollar bet.
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