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Clair Huffaker is a Director and Scriptwriter American born on 26 september 1926

Clair Huffaker

Clair Huffaker
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Nationality USA
Birth 26 september 1926
Death 3 april 1990 (at 63 years)

Clair Huffaker est un scénariste et romancier américain, né le 24 septembre 1926 à Magna (Utah) et mort le 3 avril 1990 à Los Angeles (Californie).

Il écrivit de nombreux épisodes pour les séries télévisées, notamment Bonanza et Le Virginien.

Best films

The Comancheros (1961)
(Scriptwriter)

Usually with

John Wayne
John Wayne
(3 films)
Bruce Cabot
Bruce Cabot
(3 films)
Hal Needham
Hal Needham
(2 films)
Bud Westmore
Bud Westmore
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Clair Huffaker (13 films)

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Director

The War Wagon, 1h41
Directed by Bruce Cabot, Bruce Dern, Kirk Douglas, Gene Evans, Howard Keel, Robert Walker Jr., John Wayne, Keenan Wynn, Joanna Barnes, Burt Kennedy, Clair Huffaker
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime, Western
Themes Heist films
Actors John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Howard Keel, Robert Walker Jr., Keenan Wynn, Bruce Dern
Rating68% 3.4000453.4000453.4000453.4000453.400045
Rancher Taw Jackson (John Wayne) returns to his hometown to settle a score. Three years earlier, he was framed by corrupt businessman Frank Pierce (Bruce Cabot) and wrongfully imprisoned. Pierce did this to confiscate Jackson's land, where he had discovered gold. After his prison sentence was cut short for good behavior, Jackson returns to steal a shipment of gold from Pierce. He hires Lomax (Kirk Douglas) to assist him, even though he had worked as a hired gun for Pierce and was instrumental in sending him to prison. Jackson needs Lomax not only because of his marksmanship, but also because he is a safe-cracker. The gold shipment is being transported in a "war wagon," a heavily armored stagecoach armed with a deadly Gatling gun in a top-mounted steerable turret. Jackson and Lomax assemble a gang and plan to rob the war wagon at the weakest point in the route it travels.

Scriptwriter

Chino
Chino (1973)
, 1h35
Directed by John Sturges, Duilio Coletti
Origin Italie
Genres Action, Western
Themes Films about animals, Films about horses
Actors Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Marcel Bozzuffi, Vincent Van Patten, Fausto Tozzi, Ettore Manni
Rating59% 2.994692.994692.994692.994692.99469
Chino Valdez (Bronson) is a lonely horse breeder, whose life is thrown into turmoil when a young runaway (Van Patten) turns up at his door looking for work and, later, he falls in love with a beautiful woman (Ireland) whose brother (Bozzuffi) hates him.
The Deserter, 1h40
Directed by Burt Kennedy
Genres Action, Western
Actors Bekim Fehmiu, John Huston, Richard Crenna, Chuck Connors, Ricardo Montalbán, Ian Bannen
Roles Adaptation
Rating61% 3.0980653.0980653.0980653.0980653.098065
US Army cavalry returning from a 2-week patrol head to a mission finding its inhabitants have been savagely killed by Indians just a short distance from Fort Bowie. Among the dead that sought sanctuary in a desecrated church is the dying wife of the patrol's leader.
Flap
Flap (1970)
, 1h46
Directed by Carol Reed
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Western
Actors Anthony Quinn, Claude Akins, Tony Bill, Shelley Winters, Victor Jory, Don Collier
Roles Créateur de nouvelle
Rating57% 2.854532.854532.854532.854532.85453
Flapping Eagle lives on an Indian reservation in the southwestern United States. He drinks too much, one of many sources of disagreement between Flap and his sweetheart, Dorothy Bluebell. He also has trouble with his arch-rival, Sgt. Rafferty, a brutal, bigoted police officer in town.
100 Rifles
100 Rifles (1969)
, 1h50
Directed by Chuck Roberson, Tom Gries
Origin USA
Genres War, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, Fernando Lamas, Dan O'Herlihy, Eric Braeden, Michael Forest
Rating59% 2.9976252.9976252.9976252.9976252.997625
In 1912 Sonora, Mexico, Lyedecker (Brown) is an Arizona lawman who travels to a remote village looking for Yaqui Joe (Reynolds), a half-Indian, half-white bank robber who has stolen $6,000 (in Arizona) to buy 100 rifles for his Yaqui people who are being repressed by the government.
Hellfighters, 2h1
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about the labor movement, Disaster films
Actors John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Vera Miles, Jay C. Flippen, Bruce Cabot
Rating64% 3.2488953.2488953.2488953.2488953.248895
Chance Buckman is the head of a Houston–based oil-fire fighting outfit. With a team that includes Joe Horn, Greg Parker, and George Harris, Chance travels around the world putting out blazes at well heads from industrial accident, explosion or terrorist attack. Chance enjoys the thrills, but longs for ex-wife Madelyn (Vera Miles) he divorced 20 years earlier, taking their daughter Leticia with her, because Madelyn could not bear to see her husband risk his life. Though they love each other, Madelyn could not deal with her terror that Chance might burn to death in a fire.
The War Wagon, 1h41
Directed by Bruce Cabot, Bruce Dern, Kirk Douglas, Gene Evans, Howard Keel, Robert Walker Jr., John Wayne, Keenan Wynn, Joanna Barnes, Burt Kennedy, Clair Huffaker
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime, Western
Themes Heist films
Actors John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Howard Keel, Robert Walker Jr., Keenan Wynn, Bruce Dern
Roles Novel
Rating68% 3.4000453.4000453.4000453.4000453.400045
Rancher Taw Jackson (John Wayne) returns to his hometown to settle a score. Three years earlier, he was framed by corrupt businessman Frank Pierce (Bruce Cabot) and wrongfully imprisoned. Pierce did this to confiscate Jackson's land, where he had discovered gold. After his prison sentence was cut short for good behavior, Jackson returns to steal a shipment of gold from Pierce. He hires Lomax (Kirk Douglas) to assist him, even though he had worked as a hired gun for Pierce and was instrumental in sending him to prison. Jackson needs Lomax not only because of his marksmanship, but also because he is a safe-cracker. The gold shipment is being transported in a "war wagon," a heavily armored stagecoach armed with a deadly Gatling gun in a top-mounted steerable turret. Jackson and Lomax assemble a gang and plan to rob the war wagon at the weakest point in the route it travels.
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold, 1h30
Directed by Robert Day
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Tarzan films
Actors Mike Henry, David Opatoshu, Manuel Padilla, Jr., Nancy Kovack, Don Megowan, Eduardo Noriega
Rating58% 2.900042.900042.900042.900042.90004
Augustus Vinero (David Opatoshu) is a wealthy international criminal known for his habit of sending explosive wristwatches or necklaces to those not in his favour. When he hears of Ramel (Manuel Padilla Jr.), a small boy who may know the location of the fabled Valley of Gold in Mexico, he sends a death squad of plainclothes mercenaries which destroys the farmhouse (and its inhabitants) where Ramel is being sheltered.
Rio Conchos, 1h47
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Stuart Whitman, Richard Boone, Edmond O'Brien, Anthony Franciosa, Vito Scotti, Wende Wagner
Roles Novel
Rating65% 3.2954753.2954753.2954753.2954753.295475
An ex-Confederate Army officer (Richard Boone) named Jim Lassiter, who has been out for revenge against Apache Indians who massacred his family, recovers a stolen U.S. Army repeating rifle from some Apaches he has killed; as the Apache have proven formidable with lesser weaponry, there is cause for concern should they become equipped with such superior firepower.
The Comancheros, 1h47
Directed by John Wayne, Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin, Lee Marvin, Nehemiah Persoff, Bruce Cabot
Rating67% 3.3985953.3985953.3985953.3985953.398595
In 1843 roguish gambler Paul Regret (Stuart Whitman) escapes a death penalty after killing in a duel Emil Bouvier (Gregg Palmer), the son of a Louisiana judge. Regret claimed that he would have only wounded Bouvier if he hadn't sidestepped. He is captured by Texas Ranger Jake Cutter (John Wayne) after a tryst with a mysterious lady, Pilar Graile (Ina Balin). Regret manages to escape, but is subsequently recaptured after a chance encounter with Cutter in a saloon.
Posse from Hell, 1h29
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Audie Murphy, John Saxon, Vic Morrow, Zohra Lampert, Robert Keith, Lee Van Cleef
Roles Novel
Rating65% 3.2927553.2927553.2927553.2927553.292755
In 1880 four escapees from death row, Crip (Vic Morrow), Leo (Lee Van Cleef), Chunk (Henry Wills) and Hash (Charles Horvath) ride into the town of Paradise and enter the Rosebud Saloon. Crip shoots the town marshal Issac Webb (Ward Ramsey) and takes ten men as hostages, killing some to ensure the four are unmolested. The gang leaves town with $11,200 from the Bank of Paradise and a female hostage Helen Caldwell (Zohra Lampert) who entered the bar because her alcoholic Uncle Billy (Royal Dano) was one of the captives.
The Second Time Around, 1h39
Directed by Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Debbie Reynolds, Steve Forrest, Andy Griffith, Juliet Prowse, Thelma Ritter, Isobel Elsom
Rating64% 3.2446453.2446453.2446453.2446453.244645
Lu Rogers, recently widowed, leaves her children in New York with her mother-in-law in 1911 and travels west to take a job she's been offered. Upon arriving in Arizona, the job falls through, so farmer Aggie Gates tries her out as a hired hand.
Flaming Star, 1h41
Directed by Don Siegel, Michael D. Moore, Richard Talmadge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Elvis Presley, Barbara Eden, Dolores del Río, Steve Forrest, Rodolfo Acosta, John McIntire
Roles Novel
Rating64% 3.2490153.2490153.2490153.2490153.249015
Elvis Presley plays Pacer Burton, the son of a Kiowa mother and a Texan father working as a rancher. His family, including a half-brother, Clint, live a typical life on the Texan frontier. Life becomes anything but typical when a nearby tribe of Kiowa begin raiding neighboring homesteads. Pacer soon finds himself caught between the two worlds, part of both but belonging to neither.
Seven Ways from Sundown, 1h36
Directed by Harry Keller
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Audie Murphy, Barry Sullivan, John McIntire, Venetia Stevenson, Kenneth Tobey, Mary Field
Roles Créateur de nouvelle
Rating66% 3.3407353.3407353.3407353.3407353.340735
Seven Jones (Murphy), is a young Texas Ranger on his first assignment, assigned to bring in the outlaw Jim Flood (Sullivan) well known for his flashy lifestyle. Despite his inexperience Seven manages to capture the outlaw, but finds his efforts to bring his prisoner to jail complicated by people who for various reasons are out to kill him, and other people who consider Flood to be a hero and want to rescue him.