Colbert Clark Biography

Harvard graduate Colbert Clark entered films in 1931 as a writer specializing in action melodramas. Penning scores of low-budget films and serials such as John Wayne's Hurricane Express (1932) and The Three Musketeers (1933), the latter of which he also directed, Clark went on to become an executive with Columbia Pictures, where he produced Boris Karloff's The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942) and the long-running (1945-1952) "Durango Kid" series starring Charles Starrett. After the demise of the series (and B-Westerns in general}, Clark went on to co-produce (with Gene Autry) the television series Annie Oakley (1954-1956), starring Gail Davis, a blonde charmer who had appeared in several Durango Kid vehicles, as well as Tales of the Texas Rangers (1955) starring Willard Parker. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi