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.
[3] 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[4] – the former a set of diaries[5] (a TV documentary version of which was also made in 2004) and the latter a memoir of his relationship with Monroe.
[9] He then worked for Granada Television in Manchester, initially as a floor manager and later as assistant to studio boss Denis Forman and then head of design.
He made a series of programmes called Art: New York, and recorded live concerts by Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins.
[16][17] At 50 he married Helena Siu Kwan, daughter of Cheung Wan Li of Hong Kong, and they had a son Christopher Ming Clark (b.