Lucien Hubbard, Film Director, Producer and Author, Is Dead
The New York Times
Hubbard, Lucien
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Dec. 31‐Lucien Hubbard, a film director and writer, died today at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Betty Heasley. He was 82 yeira old.

Mr. Hubbard was a producer and a writer ag well as a direc tor He Iliad been a producer for Metro‐Goldwyn‐Mayer and for Paramount and a writer producer for Universal.

A war correspondent in the South Pacific, Mr. Hubbard wrote the screenplay for “Gung Ho”, employing an intimate knowledge of the setting to dramatize the stab by Carlson's Raiders on Makin Island on A. 17, 1942. His scenario was based on, an account by Capt. W. S. Le Francois, who took part in the raid. The film was shown on Channel 9 in New York last night.

Mr. Hubbard also was the producer of “Shadow of Doubt,” a mystery story in Which woman, portrayed by Constance Collier, was the detective, fur thering a new school of writing in which elderly, schoolteachers, dowagers and the like competed with Philo Vance, Perry Mason and Nick Charles as amateur private eyes.

He served as associate pro ducer for “Stranger's Return,” based on a Phil Stong novel about an octogenarian farmer, played by Lionel Barrymore.

Mr. Hubbard was the author of “Rivers to the Sea,” a novel about steamboat travel on the Mississippi in the early nine teenth century. A New York Times reviewer called it “a movie in words,” and added:

“Action dominates character. Conceived in striking scenes, the book pictorially evokes an exciting and eventful chapter in our history.”

Surviving Mr. Hubbard also are another. daughter, Mrs. George Seitz, also of Beverly Hills; two brothers, Frank of New Rochelle, N.Y., and Har lan of Payne Hollow, Ky.; three grandchildren and one great grandchild. His wife, the former Alice Bender, died Jest year.