question: Who directed the 1982 film Eric Christmas was in?
answer: Bob Clark
context: Title: The Challengers (film)
  Passage: The Challengers is a 1990 family television film that was produced by Lauron Productions for CBC Television.  It stars Gema Zamprogna (best known for her role on "Road to Avonlea"), Gwynyth Walsh and Eric Christmas.  The film features the Jon and Vangelis song "I'll Find My Way Home".
  Title: The Canvas Barricade
  Passage: The Canvas Barricade is a two-act play by Donald Jack.  It won a Canadian play-writing competition held jointly by "The Globe and Mail" and the Stratford Festival, and had a six-performance run at the Stratford Festival in 1961.  It was the first original Canadian play produced at Stratford.  The cast for the Stratford production included Peter Donat (in the lead role of Misty Woodenbridge), Kate Reid, Zoe Caldwell, Eric Christmas and Bruno Gerussi.
  Title: Conan the Barbarian (1982 novel)
  Passage: Conan the Barbarian is a 1982 fantasy novel written by L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter and Catherine Crook de Camp featuring Robert E. Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, a novelization of the feature film of the same name.  It was first published in paperback by Bantam Books in May 1982.  The first hardcover edition was issued by Robert Hale in 1983, and the first British edition by Sphere Books in April 1988.  A later novel with the same title by Michael A. Stackpole was issued by Berkley Books in 2011 as a tie-in with the 2011 remake of the 1982 film.
  Title: Bob Geldof
  Passage: Robert Frederick Zenon "Bob" Geldof, KBE (born 5 October 1951), is an Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist and occasional actor.  He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats in the late 1970s and early 1980s, alongside the punk rock movement.  The band had Number One hits with his compositions "Rat Trap" and "I Don't Like Mondays".  He co-wrote "Do They Know It's Christmas? ", one of the best-selling singles of all time, and starred in Pink Floyd's 1982 film "Pink Floyd – The Wall" as "Pink."
  Title: Porky's
  Passage: Porky's is a 1981 Canadian-American sex comedy film written and directed by Bob Clark about the escapades of teenagers in 1954 at the fictional Angel Beach High School in Florida.  Released in the United States in 1982 with an R rating, the film spawned two sequels: "" (1983) and "Porky's Revenge! " (1985) and a remake of the original titled, "Porky's Pimpin' Pee Wee" (2009) and influenced many writers in the teen film genre.  "Porky's" was the fifth highest-grossing film of 1982.
  Title: The Thing (2011 film)
  Passage: The Thing is a 2011 science-fiction horror film directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. and written by Eric Heisserer based on the novella "Who Goes There? " by John W. Campbell.  It is a prequel to the 1982 film of the same name by John Carpenter, which was itself a remake of the 1951 film "The Thing from Another World".  The film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Eric Christian Olsen.  They are part of a team of Norwegian and American scientists who discover an alien buried deep in the ice of Antarctica, realizing too late that it is still alive.
  Title: Eric Christmas
  Passage: Eric Cuthbert Christmas (19 March 1916 – 22 July 2000) was a British stage and screen actor, with over 40 films and numerous television roles to his credit.  He was well known for his role as Mr. Carter, the principal of Angel Beach High School, in the 1982 hit comedy "Porky's", the 1983 sequel "" and the 1985 sequel "Porky's Revenge! ".  He was also well known for his sporadic role as Reverend Diddymoe in the NBC sitcom, "Amen".
  Title: Home Is Where the Hart Is
  Passage: Home Is Where the Hart Is is a 1987 Canadian film, written and directed by Rex Bromfield.  It stars Leslie Nielsen, Eric Christmas, and Martin Mull.
  Title: Peter Del Monte
  Passage: Peter Del Monte (born 29 July 1943) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.  He has directed 15 films since 1969.  His 1982 film "Invitation au voyage" won the prize for the Best Artistic Contribution at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.
  Title: Burden of Dreams
  Passage: Burden of Dreams is a 1982 "making-of" documentary film directed by Les Blank, shot during and about the chaotic production of Werner Herzog's 1982 film "Fitzcarraldo", and filmed on location in the jungles of South America.
citations: Eric Christmas Porky's