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Clair Huffaker (1926-1990) was an American screenwriter and author of westerns and other fiction. He wrote novels such as Badge for a Gunfighter and The Comancheros, and screenplays for films such as The War Wagon and Hellfighters.
Clair Huffaker was a writer of novels and screenplays, known for The Comancheros, Hellfighters and Flap. He was born in Utah in 1926 and died in Los Angeles in 1990.
- Writer
- September 24, 1926
- Clair Huffaker
- April 3, 1990
Clair Huffaker has 41 books on Goodreads with 4349 ratings. Clair Huffaker’s most popular book is The Cowboy and the Cossack.
Apr 6, 1990 · Clair Huffaker, a Western novelist and screenwriter who scripted such classics as “The War Wagon” and “The Comancheros,” has died. He was 63.
Jul 11, 2024 · In the final “shoot-out” at the end of the book, the genre formula is twisted out of shape as Huffaker has his hero employing such unusual weapons as a spur, barbed wire and a loud, piercing shriek. Badge for a Gunfighter is refreshingly bright and brisk in its storytelling as are all of Huffaker’s other novels.
Apr 3, 1990 · Clair Huffaker was a U.S. author of westerns and other fiction, many of which were turned into films. His screenplays included such films as "Flaming Star" (1960), "The Commancheros" (1961), "Rio Conchos" (1964), and "The War Wagon" (1967).
Apr 8, 1990 · CLAIR HUFFAKER, 63, Western novelist and screenwriter who scripted such classics as The War Wagon and The Comancheros, died Tuesday. Huffaker’s novels, many reprinted a decade ago, began in...