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'A Christmas Story' director Bob Clark and son die in LA crash
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie Apr 05, 2007 01:16am |
| Category | Obituary |
| News Date | Apr 04, 2007 01:00am |
| Description | Film director Bob Clark, best known for the holiday classic A Christmas Story, was killed with his son Wednesday in a head-on crash with a vehicle that a drunken driver steered into the wrong lane, police and the filmmaker's assistant said.
Clark, 67, and son Ariel Hanrath-Clark, 22, were killed in the accident in Pacific Palisades, said Lyne Leavy, Clark's personal assistant.
The two men were in an Infiniti that collided head-on with a GMC Yukon around 2:30 a.m. PDT, said Lt. Paul Vernon, a police spokesman. The driver of the other car was under the influence of alcohol and was driving without a license, Vernon said.
His breakout success came with 1981's sex farce Porky's, a coming-of-age romp that he followed two years later with Porky's II: The Next Day.
In 1983, A Christmas Story marked a career high for Clark. Darrin McGavin, Melinda Dillon and Peter Billingsley starred in the adaptation of Jean Shepard's childhood memoir of a boy in the 1940s. |
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