Joy Newton Houck Jr. (January 26, 1942 – October 1, 2003) was an American actor, screenwriter and film director who is probably best known for ''

Creature from Black Lake ''Creature from Black Lake'' is a 1976 American horror film written and directed by Joy N. Houck Jr. and starring Jack Elam, Dub Taylor, Dennis Fimple, John David Carson, and Bill Thurman. It follows two anthropology students from the Unive ...

,'' one of the many

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s of the 1970s. His father, Joy Newton Houck Sr., founded

Howco Howco Productions later Howco International Pictures, was an American film production and distribution company based in South Carolina, specialising in low budget B pictures designed for double features. In 1951 Joy Newton Houck Sr. (born 10 Ju ...

—a production and distribution company for low-budget films.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Houck, Joy N. Jr. 1942 births 2003 deaths American male actors American male screenwriters 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters