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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Makeup Born: August 5, 1941 in New Orleans, LA Death: April 4, 2007 in Pacific Palisades, CA Biography:"Bob Clark" began making independent low-budget features as a writer/director with the transvestite comedy "The She Man" in 1967, and his horror films of the early '70s, made with writer/actor "Alan Ormsby", are fondly remembered: "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" (signed as Benjamin Clark) and "Deathdream" (aka Dead of Night; Night Walk). "Clark" also won admiration for his Sherlock Holmes film "Murder By Decree", scripted by "John Hopkins". None of this could compare to the box-office success "Clark" would find in the early '80s with his seminal low-brow sex comedy "Porky's" and its first sequel. Reviled by critics but eaten up by audiences, the films' horny-yet-nostalgic tone would forever influence the world of teen movies. It was "Clark"'s 1983 project, however, an adaptation of "Jean Shepherd"'s writings called "A Christmas Story", that would prove to be the director's finest moment. The... Full Biography
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