Known For
Writing
Born
Sep 05, 1937
Place of Birth
Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK
Credits
59 titles
Dick Clement
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
Remembers…
Self
An Accidental Studio
Self
My Generation
Writer
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches
Self
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Self
Porridge
Writer
Spies of Warsaw
Writer
Killing Bono
Screenplay
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
Self
The Bank Job
Screenplay
Across the Universe
Screenplay
Legends
Self
Flushed Away
Screenplay
Goal!
Screenplay
Drama Connections
Archangel
Writer
The Rotters' Club
Adaptation
The Best of Ronnie Barker
Writer
The Commitments - Looking Back
Self
Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe
Self
Honest
Writer
Still Crazy
Writer
Tracey Takes On...
Writer
The Commitments
Screenplay
Freddie and Max
Writer
Laat maar zitten
Creator
Vice Versa
Writer
Lovejoy
Writer
Water
Director
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Writer
Bullshot
Director
Sunset Limousine
Writer
Anyone for Denis?
Director
Anyone for Denis
Director
The New Adventures of Lucky Jim
Writer
Wogan
Self
Astronauts
Script Editor
The Prisoner of Zenda
Screenplay
Porridge
Director
To Russia... with Elton
Director
Going Straight
Writer
Porridge: The Desperate Hours
Writer
The Likely Lads
Writer
Porridge: No Way Out
Writer
On the Rocks
Creator
Porridge
Writer
Thick as Thieves
Writer
Seven of One
Writer
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Writer
Catch Me a Spy
Director