Dick Clement
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- September 5, 1937 (age 89)
- Birthplace
- Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
My Generation
Movie · Writer
Porridge
Movie · Writer
Spies of Warsaw
TV · Writer · 1 ep
Killing Bono
Movie · Screenplay
The Bank Job
Movie · Screenplay
Across the Universe
Movie · Screenplay
Flushed Away
Movie · Screenplay, Story
Goal!
Movie · Screenplay
Archangel
TV · Writer · 2 eps
The Best of Ronnie Barker
TV · Writer · 1 ep
The Rotters' Club
TV · Adaptation, Writer · 3 eps
Great Comedy Moments
Movie · Writer
Honest
Movie · Writer
Still Crazy
Movie · Writer
The Commitments
Movie · Screenplay
Freddie and Max
TV · Writer · 6 eps
Vice Versa
Movie · Writer
Lovejoy
TV · Writer · 5 eps
Water
Movie · Writer
Sunset Limousine
Movie · Writer
There Goes the Neighborhood
Movie · Story, Teleplay
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
TV · Writer · 6 eps
The New Adventures of Lucky Jim
TV · Writer · 7 eps
Astronauts
TV · Script Editor · 13 eps
The Prisoner of Zenda
Movie · Screenplay
Porridge
Movie · Writer
To Russia... with Elton
Movie · Writer
Going Straight
TV · Writer · 6 eps
Three Piece Suite
TV · Writer · 1 ep
The Likely Lads
Movie · Writer
Porridge: The Desperate Hours
Movie · Writer
Porridge: No Way Out
Movie · Writer
Porridge
TV · Writer · 18 eps
Thick as Thieves
TV · Writer · 8 eps
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
TV · Writer · 26 eps
Seven of One
TV · Writer · 2 eps
Villain
Movie · Screenplay
Catch Me a Spy
Movie · Writer
Otley
Movie · Screenplay
Hannibal Brooks
Movie · Screenplay
The Jokers
Movie · Screenplay
The Likely Lads
TV · Writer · 20 eps
Comedy Playhouse
TV · Writer · 1 ep