Dick Clement
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- 5 Sept 1937 (age 89)
- Birthplace
- Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK
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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.
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Known for
Flushed Away200669Pop Score out of 100
The Bank Job200871Pop Score out of 100
Across the Universe200768Pop Score out of 100
Goal!200562Pop Score out of 100
The Commitments199177Pop Score out of 100
Vice Versa198862Pop Score out of 100
Still Crazy199871Pop Score out of 100
Killing Bono201158Pop Score out of 100
Filmography
- 2026Joe & David's Magical Sitcom TourTVas Self · 1 episode
- 2024Remembers…TVas Self · 1 episode
- 2019An Accidental Studioas Self
- 2017My GenerationWriter · Producer
- 2016Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketchesas Self