Director of A Christmas Story killed in crash; Bob Clark, who also made Porky's, died with his son when their car was hit by a truck in California Final Edition

Film director [Bob Clark], who made A Christmas Story and the Porky's movies, was killed in a car crash early Wednesday with his son Ariel. LAPD investigators said Clark was driving a 1997 Infiniti Q-30 sedan southbound on a stretch of Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades when the driver...

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Published inThe Vancouver sun (1986)
Main Author Andrew Blankstein and Daryl Strickland
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Vancouver, B.C Postmedia Network Inc 05.04.2007
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Clark, Bob
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Summary:Film director [Bob Clark], who made A Christmas Story and the Porky's movies, was killed in a car crash early Wednesday with his son Ariel. LAPD investigators said Clark was driving a 1997 Infiniti Q-30 sedan southbound on a stretch of Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades when the driver of a GMC Yukon, Hector Velazquez-Nava, 24, of Los Angeles, swerved and hit them head-on. In a 1985 interview with The Times, co-writer Roger Swaybill talked about how Clark dictated the outline for the movie into a cassette recorder while sick.
ISSN:0832-1299