Robert Clark (1904–1984) was a Scottish film executive best known for being head of production at Associated British Picture Corporation in the late 1940s and 1950s.
[5] Maxwell was interested in the film industry, buying up cinemas and establishing a Scottish production company, Waverly.
He wanted ABPC to recover their costs in the UK, and keep its small roster of actors and studio technicians permanently employed.
[8] According to writers Sue Harper and Vince Porter, the films in which Clark had the most personal interest were The Dam Busters (1955), The Good Companions (1957) and The Moonraker (1958).
Robert Clark also acquired a majority shareholding in the Inverness-based Caledonian Associated Cinemas Ltd, Scotland's biggest exhibition chain, and remained Chairman of this group until his death.
Sue Harper and Vince Porter wrote he "brought to film production the traditional qualities of the successful Lowland Scot—organizing ability, hard work, knowledge of finance, and disinterested service to the community."
They argued his "Scottish sensibilities different from those of the cosmopolitan Jews and middle-class Englishmen who dominated the British film industry, but he had little sense of how to articulate his ideas or put them into practice.
Described as a man with short arms and long pockets who put more thought into signing a cheque than reading a script, he husbanded the film companies’ money and his own as if it were water in the desert.