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Ian La Frenais, OBE (born 7 January 1936), is an English writer best known for his creative partnership with Dick Clement. They are most famous for television series including The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Porridge, Lovejoy and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
His father was an accountant and as a child at Park Primary School in Whitley Bay La Frenais enjoyed art and writing. He then attended Dame Allan's Boys School, Newcastle upon Tyne and completed his National Service in the British Army. After working as a salesman for a tobacco company he began composing songs for a weekly satirical programme on Tyne Tees Television and moved to London where he worked for a market research company.
In addition to The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Porridge, Lovejoy and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet they have also written various other work for TV and films. Their works include; Hannibal Brooks, The Commitments (with Roddy Doyle), Still Crazy, Goal!, Flushed Away, Across the Universe and cinema versions of some of their own TV programmes.
Dick Clement, OBE (born 5 September 1937) is an English writer known for his writing partnership with Ian La Frenais. They are most famous for television series including The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Porridge, Lovejoy and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
Born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, Clement was educated at Bishop's Stortford College, and then spent a year in the United States on an exchange visit. Upon his return, he completed his National Service with the Royal Air Force. He then joined the BBC as a studio manager and started writing scripts and comedy sketches.
Clement and La Frenais write comedies, or dramas with a comic tone. In addition to 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.
The Likely Lads is a 1976 British comedy film directed by Michael Tuchner, starring James Bolam and Rodney Bewes. It is a spin-off from Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, although it shares its title with the earlier 1960s British television series The Likely Lads, of which Whatever was the sequel.
The screenplay is by the scriptwriters of the television show, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais; and the principal roles of Bob and Terry, as well as those of Bob's wife Thelma and Terry's sister Audrey, are played by the original television cast.
An opening pre-credits sequence shows the conception of both Lads during a World War II Air raid. After the opening titles the film cuts to Bob and Terry, both aged about thirty, playing football with some boys.
The main plot begins with Bob and Terry's favourite watering hole, the Fat Ox, being demolished. The middle class Bob feels great sentimentality for this loss, whereas the working class Terry, who is now living in a high rise council flat, is more optimistic about the city's redevelopment, pointing out that he now has a "modern kitchen, a lovely view and an inside lavatory". From this establishing sequence the plot unfolds: Terry receives his final divorce decree, freeing him from his wife in West Germany, and is looking forward to a bright future; Bob on the other hand is growing tired of his married life with Thelma, and jaded with his social activities (the two things he boasted about in the television series).
James Bradford "Jimmy" Nail (born 16 March 1954) is an English singer-songwriter, actor, musician, film producer, film score composer and television writer.
He has starred in numerous roles on television since 1983. He is most famous for his role as Leonard "Oz" Osborne in the hit television show Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, his title role in Spender, and his 1992 number one single "Ain't No Doubt".
Nail was born James Bradford in Benton, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, the son of Laura (née Johnson) and James Bradford. He had two sisters: Shelagh (who died in June 1967) and Val McLane, who starred with him in the second series of Auf Wiedersehen Pet playing Dennis Patterson's sister Norma. He is 6 feet 3 inches tall and a Newcastle United supporter.
Nail rose to fame playing Leonard Jeffrey 'Oz' Osborne in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet in 1983, despite having no acting experience whatsoever (he had appeared as an extra in the film Get Carter). Nail has also starred in a number of films and had a long musical career, having been a singer before he was picked out at an audition to play Oz.
Clement is an English name, a form of the Late Latin name Clemens. Clément is a French form of the same name. Clement or Clément may refer to:
A profile of the hugely successful comedy writing partnership of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. The two men talk about their work and characters they have created, as do various actors such as Jimmy Nail, Ronnie Barker, Billy Connolly, Rodney Bewes and Brigit Forsyth who appeared in their series. Follows their work for television, including PORRIDGE and AUF WIEDERSEHEN PET, and for films, up to their work in the USA for Tracey Ullman shows in 1997. Dick Clement mentions their being called in to help on some additional work on scripts for films such as NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN and THE ROCK, for which they were uncredited. First aired: Omnibus, Jul 20, 1997 on BBC
A profile of the hugely successful comedy writing partnership of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. The two men talk about their work and characters they have created, as do various actors such as Jimmy Nail, Billy Connolly, Rodney Bewes and Brigit Forsyth who appeared in their series. Follows their work for television, including PORRIDGE and AUF WIEDERSEHEN PET, and for films, up to their work in the USA for Tracey Ullman shows in 1997. Dick Clement mentions their being called in to help on some additional work on scripts for films such as NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN and THE ROCK, for which they were uncredited. First aired: Omnibus, Jul 20, 1997 on BBC
A profile of the hugely successful comedy writing partnership of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. The two men talk about their work and characters they have created, as do various actors such as Jimmy Nail, Billy Connolly, Rodney Bewes and Brigit Forsyth who appeared in their series. Follows their work for television, including PORRIDGE and AUF WIEDERSEHEN PET, and for films, up to their work in the USA for Tracey Ullman shows in 1997. Dick Clement mentions their being called in to help on some additional work on scripts for films such as NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN and THE ROCK, for which they were uncredited. First aired: Omnibus, Jul 20, 1997 on BBC
A profile of the hugely successful comedy writing partnership of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. The two men talk about their work and characters they have created, as do various actors such as Jimmy Nail, Billy Connolly, Rodney Bewes and Brigit Forsyth who appeared in their series. Follows their work for television, including PORRIDGE and AUF WIEDERSEHEN PET, and for films, up to their work in the USA for Tracey Ullman shows in 1997. Dick Clement mentions their being called in to help on some additional work on scripts for films such as NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN and THE ROCK, for which they were uncredited. First aired: Omnibus, Jul 20, 1997 on BBC
Auf Wiedersehen Pet 30th Anniversary Convention. TV interview with the writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Filmed September 2013. You may have to turn your speakers up to hear it!!
The Likely Lads is a British sitcom created and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and produced by Dick Clement. Twenty episodes were broadcast by the BBC, in three series, between 16 December 1964 and 23 July 1966. However, only eight of these shows have survived. The sitcom was set in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. This show was followed by a popular sequel series, in colour, entitled Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, broadcast between 9 January 1973 and 24 December 1974. This was followed in 1976 by a spin-off feature film The Likely Lads. Some episodes of both the original black and white series and the colour sequel were adapted for radio, with the original television cast.
Co-writer Ian La Frenais visits some locations in Newcastle used in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Full Playlist : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDbOx9kbTgg&list;=PL2-aylHF3DJ4LIabXZGTB2ec2pSjdGUfj Spender is a BBC television drama set in Newcastle upon Tyne, written by Ian La Frenais and Jimmy Nail, who also starred. The series was produced by Martin McKeand (1-14). The series was broadcast on BBC between 1991 and 1993. In all, 20 episodes were produced across three series, and one feature length special, set in and filmed in France. It focused on the life and exploits of Detective Sergeant Freddie Spender (Nail) who was often chosen to carry out more daring police cases. With his criminal sidekick Stick (Sammy Johnson), Spender was one of the more remarkable TV detectives of the 1990s. The series featured a large amount of back story for the main characters with many episodes dealin...
This extended sequence from the little-seen film, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, shows Johnston (Leonard Rossiter) planning to give up his hostage (Tom Courtenay as Otley) in exchange for a hamdsome payoff; but things don't go according to plan.
Ian Kitchen, James Andrews, Will Thomas and Mark Bennett of Kitchen La Frenais Morgantalk about the retail market market to Property Week. http://www.propertyweek.com/events/micro-sites/bcsc
As a massive fan of Auf Wiedersehen Pet I decided to see if I could find any spin off episodes that may or may not have been on TV. My search led me to this episode called 'Educating Oz'. It was made in 1986, just after the second series, and stars only Tim Healy and Jimmy Nail. None of the other cast members appear. It's only 25 minutes long and was produced by Tyne Tees as an educational programme to highlight AIDS awareness in the 80's. Although not written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais it's still extremely funny.
Donald Seton Cammell was born in Edinburgh on 17 January 1934 into a formerly wealthy family that had lost its considerable fortune in the crash of 1929. A precocious boy, he obtained a scholarship to the Royal Academy and after further studies in Florence successfully set himself up as a portrait artist in London in the early 1950s. By the mid 1960s he had given up painting to concentrate on filmmaking. His first two scripts, The Touchables (d. Robert Freeman, 1968) and Duffy (d. Robert Parrish, 1968), combine crime and hippies to unremarkable effect (The Touchables was re-written by Ian La Frenais). Cammell decided to try the same formula again in his next script, but to preserve his work insisted on directing as well. His agent, the aspiring producer Sandy Lieberson, paired him with ci...
After serving a three-year prison stretch for burglary, George (Bob Hoskins) returns home to discover that his wife Annie (Pat Ashton) has been living with his best friend and partner in crime, Stan (John Thaw). However, Annie has affections for both men; a reluctant agreement is reached, and a delicate manage-a-trois develops... Debuting June 1, 1974 over ITV's London Weekend Television service, Thick As Thieves ran for eight episodes before co-star John Thaw left to star in the detective series The Sweeney, whereupon writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais resumed their customary duties on another prison-based sitcom, Porridge. **Thanks to JuiCe & dapostie at thebox.bz.
The Bank Job (2008), Roger Donaldson, Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais
The Bank Job (2008), Roger Donaldson, Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais
The Bank Job Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais tarafından yazılıp Roger Donaldson tarafından yönetilen 1971'deki Baker Sokağı soygunu'ndan esinlenilerek hazırlanılmış 2008 İngiliz suç filmidir.
Auf Wiedersehen Pet 30th Anniversary Convention. TV interview with the writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Filmed September 2013. You may have to turn your speakers up to hear it!!
Co-writer Ian La Frenais visits some locations in Newcastle used in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
The script is based on an http://bit.ly/2bFkyNv original story credited to Taymor, Dick Clement, and Ian La Frenais....
Written by Mike Hugg and Ian La Frenais. Sung by Tony Rivers. Released in 1973. **ALL copyright(s) reserved by artists/labels/publishers. I own nothing.**
Spender was a BBC television drama set in Newcastle upon Tyne, written by Ian La Frenais and Jimmy Nail, who also starred. The series was produced by
Spender was a BBC television drama set in Newcastle upon Tyne, written by Ian La Frenais and Jimmy Nail, who also starred. The series was produced by
The Bank Job is http://bankjob08.blogspot.com/ a 2008 British crime film written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, directed by Roger Donaldson, and starring Jason Statham
British crime film written http://thbankjob2008.blogspot.com/ by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, directed by Roger Donaldson, and starring Jason Statham, based on the 1971 Baker Street robbery in central London, from which the money and valuables stolen were never recovered.
Spender was a BBC television drama set in Newcastle upon Tyne, written by Ian La Frenais and Jimmy Nail, who also starred. The series was produced by
Forty years on from the original series, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais present a brand new episode of the classic sitcom Porridge. Kevin Bishop plays Fletch, grandson of Ronnie Barker’s iconic character, who is in prison for cyber crimes and getting himself into more trouble while he is in there… Links: HOMEPAGE – TVDB