Trivia

Avid and superior poker player. Once hit a Royal Flush playing video poker on the strip won $82,000 for a two dollar bet.

He is one of only two directors to have a film on both Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list and "Most Hated" list with A Christmas Story (1983) being on the former and Baby Geniuses (1999) being on the latter. The other director is Rob Reiner.

Died in his car, along with his 22-year-old son, Ariel Clark, in a head-on crash when a drunk young man steered into the wrong lane (April 4, 2007); the driver of the other car was later charged with driving without a driver's license and while intoxicated.

He has directed one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: A Christmas Story (1983).

Across the street from the Christmas Story House, where Swede and Old Man Parker had their, "Major award" exchange, they placed a commemorative, Bob Clark Cameo Bench to honor the famed actor/director.

It was a full twenty years between his two Razzie Nominations for Worst Director. In 1985, he was nominated for the comedy film Rhinestone (1984), then in 2005, he was nominated again for Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004).

Studied theater at the University of Miami, where he also met his frequent screenwriter partner Alan Ormsby.

Directed one Academy Award nominated performance: Jack Lemmon in Tribute (1980).

Co-writer Roger Swaybill often talked about how Clark dictated the outline for the movie into a cassette recorder while sick.

Bob Clark passed away on April 7, 2007, four months away from what would have been his 68th birthday on August 5.

Attended Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan.