Dick Clement

Dick Clement

  • Birthday: 1937-09-05
  • Place of birth: 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.

Filmography

Production

Ha-Tarnegol

1971

As Script

Otley

1969

As Director

A Severed Head

1971

As Director

Bullshot

1983

As Director

Porridge

1979

As Director

Water

1985

As Director

Catch Me a Spy

1971

As Director

To Russia... with Elton

1979

As Director

Anyone for Denis

1982

As Director

Still Crazy

1998

As Executive Producer

Vice Versa

1988

As Producer

My Generation

2017

As Producer

The Commitments

1991

As Co-Producer

To Russia... with Elton

1979

As Producer

Still Crazy

1998

As Writer

The Prisoner of Zenda

1979

As Screenplay

Otley

1969

As Screenplay

Across the Universe

2007

As Screenplay

Villain

1971

As Screenplay

Flushed Away

2006

As Story

Flushed Away

2006

As Screenplay

The Commitments

1991

As Screenplay

The Bank Job

2008

As Screenplay

Hannibal Brooks

1969

As Screenplay

Goal!

2005

As Screenplay

Honest

2000

As Writer

Porridge

1979

As Writer

Killing Bono

2011

As Screenplay

The Likely Lads

1976

As Writer

Catch Me a Spy

1971

As Writer

Vice Versa

1988

As Writer

Water

1985

As Writer

My Generation

2017

As Writer

Sunset Limousine

1983

As Writer

The Jokers

1967

As Screenplay

Porridge: No Way Out

1975

As Writer

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