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La Frenais was born in Monkseaton, Northumberland; his father was an accountant. As a child at Park Primary School in Whitley Bay, La Frenais enjoyed art and writing. He then attended Dame Allan's Boys School in Newcastle upon Tyne, and completed his National Service in the British Army. [2] After working as a salesman for a tobacco company, he ...
Ian La Frenais. Writer: The Commitments. Ian La Frenais was born on 7 January 1937 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for The Commitments (1991), Flushed Away (2006) and The Bank Job (2008).
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais have written some of the most popular comedies on British Television including Porridge, The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. They have written many feature films including The Commitments, for which they won the Peter Sellers Award for Comedy and Still Crazy, which won ...
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais have enjoyed a unique creative partnership in television, movies and theater. In Britain they created several iconic series including The Likely Lads, Porridge, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Lovejoy. In America they spent four years as writers and supervising producers with Tracy ...
Apr 5, 2017 · The pilot story, Prisoner and Escort, was one of seven separate comedies in a 1973 Ronnie Barker series called 7 of One – and one of two scripts written by Clement and La Frenais. The other was ...
Ian La Frenais. Writer: The Commitments. Ian La Frenais was born on 7 January 1937 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for The Commitments (1991), Flushed Away (2006) and The Bank Job (2008).
May 31, 2015 · Clement, 77, and La Frenais, 79, whose television hits also include Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, made a move to Los Angeles 40 years ago, where they forged a new career writing movie screenplays.
