Colin Clark

Colin Clark (9 October 1932 – 17 December 2002) was a British writer and filmmaker.

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 Handley Page Hastings 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 Oscar-nominated film My Week with Marilyn, where he is portrayed by Eddie Redmayne.

He retired from filmmaking in 1987 to write books. He died in December 2002 in London.