Colin Clark (filmmaker)
| Colin Clark | |
|---|---|
| Born |
9 October 1932 London, England, UK |
| Died | 17 December 2002 (aged 70) London, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | writer and filmmaker |
Colin Clark (9 October 1932 – 17 December 2002) was a British writer and filmmaker who specialised in films about the arts, for cinema and television.
He was the son of the art historian Lord Clark of Saltwood (Sir Kenneth Clark), and the younger brother of the Conservative politician and military historian Alan Clark, with whom he was not always on good terms.
Born in London, he was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. From 1951 to 1953, he did National Service as a pilot officer in the Royal Air Force. In that capacity, he flew the Handley Page Hastings aircraft to Malaya and the Middle East.
Colin Clark's first job on leaving university was as a personal assistant on the film The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), directed by Laurence Olivier and starring Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, an experience Clark later turned into two books – The Prince, the Showgirl and Me and My Week With Marilyn – the former a set of diaries (a TV documentary version of which was also made in 2004) and the latter a memoir of his alleged relationship with Monroe. Clark's time with Monroe is the basis of the 2011 film My Week with Marilyn, where he is portrayed by Eddie Redmayne.
He went on to work with Olivier on The Entertainer, Titus Andronicus and other British stage productions. In January 1958 he agreed to be bound over having been rounded up in a police raid on John Aspinall's illicit gaming house.
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