Bob Clark
Benjamin "Bob" Clark ( August 5, 1939 * in New Orleans, Louisiana as Benjamin Clark, † April 4, 2007 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Life
After high school, Clark visited the Hillsdale College in Michigan. Later he studied at the University of Miami Theatre; there he met his frequent writing partner Alan Ormsby. He produced many of his early films in Canada.
Bob Clark and his 22 - year-old son Ariel came on the night of April 4, 2007 in a head- on collision with a suspected drunk driver on the Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, lost their lives. Ariel Clark had starred in a few films of his father, but ultimately decided to study music. Bob Clark left another son, Michael Clark.
Work
Clark is best known for the comedy and the drama Merry Christmas A Summer in Manhattan, where Jack Lemmon played the lead role and for which he received an Academy Award nomination. Commercial success was mainly in 1982 resulting film Porky's and the following year turned continuation Porky 's II - The Day After, for which he also directed. Since the mid- 1990s he worked mainly for television.
Bob Clark, however, was also nominated twice for the Golden Raspberry, namely as " Worst Director " for The whiz and The Diaper gear 2nd