Clair Huffaker Explained

Clair Huffaker
Birth Date:	26 September 1926
Birth Place:	Magna, Utah, U.S.
Death Place:	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation:	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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cliff Huffaker. https://web.archive.org/web/20140330160840/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/161467/Clair-Huffaker/filmography. dead. Movies & TV Dept.. The New York Times. 2014. 2014-03-30.
2. Web site: Clair Huffaker; Wrote Western Books, Scripts. 6 April 1990. Los Angeles Times. 14 January 2022.
3. News: The One-Man Revolt in Hollywood. Scheuer, Philip K.. Aug 13, 1967. Los Angeles Times. c14.
4. Web site: Clair Huffaker. Fantasticfiction.com. 29 August 2020.