Dick Clement
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Dick Clement OBE | |
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Born | Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England | 5 September 1937
Occupation | Screenwriter, director, producer |
Period | 1964–present |
Genre | Television |
Spouse | Nancy Campbell Clement (1982–present) |
Dick Clement
Early life
Born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, Clement was educated at Bishop's Stortford College, and then spent a year in the US on an exchange visit. Upon his return, he completed his National Service with the Royal Air Force.[1]
He then joined the BBC as a studio manager and started writing scripts and comedy sketches.[2]
Writing partnership with Ian La Frenais
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais have enjoyed a long and successful career embracing films, television and theatre. Their partnership began in the mid-1960s with The Likely Lads, and by the end of the decade they had also written three feature films: The Jokers, Otley, (directed by Clement) and Hannibal Brooks. Clement also directed the BBC sketch show Not Only... But Also, which starred Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, and, for the big screen, Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head.
In the early 1970s, two other features were scripted by Clement and La Frenais:
During the same period, they adapted
In the 1980s, Clement directed John Wells's hit stage play Anyone For Denis? He directed the films Bullshot and Water, which were produced by his writing partner La Frenais; the pair also scripted the latter film, and contributed extensive, uncredited writing work on the unofficial James Bond movie Never Say Never Again. In 1987, they wrote and produced Vice Versa. Their television work at the time included the ITV series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, which was voted ITV's Favourite TV Programme of all Time in a Radio Times readers' poll in order to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the station.
By the beginning of the 1990s, La Frenais had created the long-running series, Lovejoy, and co-created
In 2005, Clement and La Frenais had two television adaptations of best-selling novels broadcast by the BBC:
Two new television series written by them aired in 2017: a new version of
Clement and La Frenais were both awarded OBEs in the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours list.
Personal life
Clement supports the football club Chelsea F.C.[5]
Writing credits (with Ian La Frenais)
- The Likely Lads (TV, 1964–66)
- Not Only... But Also (TV, 1965)
- Further Adventures of Lucky Jim (TV, 1967)
- Mr. Aitch (TV, 1967)
- Vacant Lot (TV, 1967)
- Otley (1968)
- Hannibal Brooks (1968)
- Villain (1971)
- To Catch a Spy (1972)
- The Two Ronnies (TV, 1972)
- 7 of 1(TV, 1973)
- Ha-Tarnegol (with Haim Hefer) (1973)
- Thick as Thieves (TV, 1974)
- Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (TV, 1973–74)
- Porridge (TV, 1974–77)
- On the Rocks(TV, 1975–76)
- Going Straight (TV, 1978)
- The Prisoner of Zenda (1979)
- Porridge (film) (US: Doing Time, 1979)
- The New Adventures of Lucky Jim(TV, 1982)
- Never Say Never Again (with Lorenzo Semple Jr., 1983, uncredited)
- Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (TV, 1983–2004)
- Sunset Limousine (with Wayne Kline, TV, 1983)
- Water (with Bill Persky, 1985)
- Vice Versa (1988)
- The Commitments (with Roddy Doyle, 1991)
- Tracey Ullman: A Class Act (TV, 1992)
- The Old Boy Network (TV, 1992)
- Tracey Ullman Takes on New York (TV, 1993)
- Full Stretch (TV, 1993)
- Lovejoy (TV, 1991–94)
- Excess Baggage (with Max D. Adams, 1997)
- Still Crazy (1998)
- Tracey Takes On... (TV, 1996–99)
- Archangel (2005)
- The Rotters' Club(TV, 2005)
- Goal! The Dream Begins(2005)
- Christopher Lloyd, Joe Keenan and William Davies, 2006)
- Across the Universe (2007)
- The Bank Job (2008)
- Killing Bono (with Ben Bond, 2011)
- Spies of Warsaw (2013)
- Porridge (TV, 2016-2017)
- Henry IX (TV, 2017)
- My Generation (2017)
References
- ISBN 978-1844573349.
- ISBN 0-7472-3294-6.
- ^ BBC 4, Mark Lawson Talks to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, March 20th 2013, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mj91/episodes/guide
- ^ Chidichimo, Anthony. "The Messy True Story Behind 1993's 'Super Mario Bros.' Movie". Collider. Collider. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ "Footballers' lives". 23 September 2005.