
Person
Dick Clement
Writing
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- Sep 5, 1937
- From
- Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dick Clement, OBE (born 5 September 1937) is an English writer. Born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, Clement was educated at Bishop's Stortford College and is best known for his writing partnership with Ian La Frenais. Generally, Clement and La Frenais write comedies, or dramas with a comic tone. They are known for television series including, The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Porridge, Lovejoy and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. They have also written various other works for TV and a number of films, including The Commitments (with Roddy Doyle), Goal!, Flushed Away, Across The Universe and The Bank Job. They also wrote film versions of some of their television successes, which Clement himself usually directed. Both have been resident in the U.S. since the 1980s and have worked on such series as The Tracey Ullman Show, as well as uncredited script doctoring on films like Never Say Never Again, The Rock (1996) and Bad Boys 2. They also continue to write for British TV. Clement was awarded an OBE in the Queen's 2007 Birthday Honours list. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dick Clement, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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An Accidental Studio

Omnibus

Wogan

Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation

Joe & David's Magical Sitcom Tour

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

The Commitments - Looking Back
Drama Connections

Legends

Remembers…
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches

Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe

Still Crazy

The Prisoner of Zenda

Otley

The Jokers

Across the Universe

Villain