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Ian La Frenais
OBE
Born
(1937-01-07) 7 January 1937 (age 87) Monkseaton, Northumberland, England[1]
Occupation
Screenwriter
Education
Dame Allan's Boys School, Newcastle upon Tyne
Period
1964–present
Genre
Television
Spouse
Doris Vartan
(m. 1984)
Relatives
Gladys and Cyril La Frenais (parents)[1]
Ian La FrenaisOBE (born 7 January 1937) 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 and its sequel Going Straight, Lovejoy and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
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IanLaFrenais OBE (born 7 January 1937) is an English writer best known for his creative partnership with Dick Clement. They are most famous for television...
director and producer. He became known for his writing partnership with IanLaFrenais for television series including The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to...
between the first and second series. It was adapted for television by IanLaFrenais. The series concerns the adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a roguish...
Spender is a British television police procedural drama, created by IanLaFrenais and Jimmy Nail, that first broadcast on 8 January 1991 on BBC1. The...
Going Straight is a BBC sitcom created and written by Dick Clement and IanLaFrenais, and starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale. The programme was...
Kramer, David Sproxton, and Peter Lord, and written by Dick Clement, IanLaFrenais, Chris Lloyd, Joe Keenan and Will Davies. It was the third and final...
budget. Connery then hired British television writers Dick Clement and IanLaFrenais to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts...
thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Dick Clement and IanLaFrenais. It is based on the 1971 burglary of Lloyds Bank safety deposit boxes...
Likely Lads is a British sitcom created and written by Dick Clement and IanLaFrenais and produced by Dick Clement. Twenty episodes were broadcast by the...
Briers, and Porridge writers Dick Clement and IanLaFrenais gave tributes during the service. LaFrenais stated: "I was always amazed by Richard's talent...
John Creasey Award. The story was adapted by IanLaFrenais for the BBC television series Lovejoy starring Ian McShane. The episode "The Judas Pair" first...
the second series, which aired for 13 weeks in 1986. In 1989 Nail and IanlaFrenais began work on an idea which became the BBC television drama series Spender...
script for a week. Other writers, such as Ron Bass, Dick Clement and IanLaFrenais, Larry Ferguson, George Gallo, Tony Gilroy, Dan Gordon, Brian Helgeland...
Lord Story by: Sam Fell Peter Lord Dick Clement IanLaFrenais Screenplay by: Dick Clement IanLaFrenais Chris Lloyd Joe Keenan Will Davies Harry Gregson-Williams...
She also appeared many times with The Scaffold. Likely Lads writer IanLaFrenais said of her "she was sexy and funny and she knew John Lennon. Sheila...
Whitley Bay Film Festival 2010–present. A community annual event. Patron IanLaFrenais. The Whitley Bay Municipal Orchestra, conducted by Percival Goffin,...
backing singer Imelda Quirke in Alan Parker's The Commitments. In 1993, IanLaFrenais and Dick Clement wrote the short-lived TV series Over the Rainbow for...
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