Dick Clement
Born: 1937-09-05 in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK
Known For: Writing
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.
Filmography
2019
- An Accidental Studio as Self
2017
- My Generation ... (Producer)
2016
2013
- Spies of Warsaw ... (Writer)
2011
- Killing Bono ... (Screenplay)
2008
- The Bank Job ... (Screenplay)
- Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation as Self
2007
- Across the Universe ... (Screenplay)
2006
- Flushed Away ... (Screenplay)
- Legends as Self
2005
- Goal! ... (Screenplay)
- Archangel ... (Writer)
- The Rotters' Club ... (Writer)
- Drama Connections
- The Best of Ronnie Barker ... (Writer)
2004
- The Commitments - Looking Back as Self
2002
2000
- Honest ... (Writer)
1998
- Still Crazy ... (Writer)
1996
- Tracey Takes On... ... (Producer)
1991
- The Commitments ... (Screenplay)
1990
- Freddie and Max ... (Writer)
1988
- Vice Versa ... (Writer)
- Laat maar zitten ... (Creator)
1986
- Lovejoy ... (Writer)
1985
- Water ... (Director)
1983
- Bullshot ... (Director)
- Auf Wiedersehen, Pet ... (Writer)
- Sunset Limousine ... (Writer)
1982
- Wogan as Self
- Anyone for Denis ... (Director)
- Anyone for Denis? ... (Director)
1981
- Astronauts ... (Script Editor)
1979
- Porridge ... (Writer)
- The Prisoner of Zenda ... (Screenplay)
- To Russia... with Elton ... (Director)
1978
- Going Straight ... (Writer)
1976
- Porridge: The Desperate Hours ... (Writer)
- The Likely Lads ... (Writer)
1975
- Porridge: No Way Out ... (Writer)
- On the Rocks ... (Creator)
1974
- Porridge ... (Writer)
- Thick As Thieves ... (Writer)
1973
- Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? ... (Writer)
1971
- Villain ... (Screenplay)
- Catch Me a Spy ... (Writer)
- A Severed Head ... (Director)
- The Rooster ... (Script)
1969
- Hannibal Brooks ... (Screenplay)
- Otley ... (Director)
1967
- Omnibus as Self
- The Jokers ... (Screenplay)
1964
- The Likely Lads ... (Producer)
1961
- Comedy Playhouse ... (Writer)