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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.
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Early life. 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]
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Contrary to popular belief, Clement and La Frenais are not both “Geordies”, the affectionate nickname given to anyone from Newcastle in the north-east of England. La Frenais was born in Northumberland, the county in which Newcastle is situated, but Clement originally hailed from Essex, at the other end of the country. Nevertheless, in their writing...
Clement and La Frenais were born in 1937 and 1936 respectively. Consequently, they grew up during the war, which would have generated its own obvious drama, but after the war, they were part of the extraordinary rise through the economic and social classes that saw working-class and lower-middle-class lads like themselves capitalize on an unprecede...
Like The Beatles and The Stones in music, and Sean Connery and Michael Caine in cinema, Clement and La Frenais were in the vanguard of a new breed that would eventually take over and revolutionize British television.After they had both completed their National Service (or conscription into the army, which continued in Britain until the early 1960s)...
Their first successful collaboration was The Likely Lads, which was first broadcast on the BBC in the winter of 1964. It was almost directly autobiographical, as it featured a comedy double-act of the outgoing, extrovert “Terry” (played by James Bolam) and the more introverted, even nervous “Bob” (played by Rodney Bewes). This fictional pair bore s...
The success of The Likely Lads enabled Clement and La Frenais to move into film, which was still regarded in the 1960s as being inherently superior to television. They wrote and directed a number of features, the most notable of which was probably Villain (1971), in which Richard Burton played a gangster planning to steal money from a factory. Howe...
Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? was not so much a sequel to The Likely Lads as a complete reimagining of the original series, showing how the youthful effervescence of two young men in their twenties had curdled into the disappointment of two men fast approaching their forties. Although it was shot in color, as opposed to the original show’s ...
Porridge is probably the greatest British sitcom (or “Britcom”) that is least well known outside of Britain. Unlike the equally sublime Fawlty Towers or even the appalling Are You Being Served?, it did not “travel well” outside of the UK, which again is entirely fitting in a way, as its characters – prison inmates – did not travel anywhere at all. ...
By the end of the 1970s, and having penned not one great sitcom but two, Clement and La Frenais were at their peak as a comedy writing team. Consequently, they were hugely in demand and not only on television. They also wrote numerous plays and musicals, but nothing quite matched the apparently effortless genius of The Likely Lads/Whatever Happened...
The Likely Lads/Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? and Porridge were both shot through with pathos, but pathos – indeed, real dramatic irony and even pain – was built into the DNA of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. It was as much a drama as a comedy and consequently is often regarded as the greatest British television drama of the 1980s. Its only real con...
The late, great Tony Wilson of Factory Records fame often used the analogy of “the hat-trick” to explain the nature of true artistic triumph. To achieve a hat-trick, he would say, meant that you had achieved greatness not once, or even twice, but three times. Sadly, by his own admission he himself only achieved greatness twice, first when he discov...
May 19, 2014 · They've lived in America for the past 40 years but have flown over to the UK to take part in a new Gold documentary series about their sitcom, Porridge: Inside Out. BCG grabbed them for a chat. Read on to find out how their big break came about, who they've enjoyed working with, the show they are furious that got axed, and their future plans...
In 1975 Clement and La Frenais set up independent production company Witzend (with producer Allan McKeown), which later (1988) transmuted into SelecTV and later still (1996) became part of Thames Television, now owned by Fremantle.
Ian La Frenais was born on January 7, 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). He has been married to Doris Vartan since 1984.
There aren’t many writing partnerships that have lasted as long as Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. When they met in a London pub back in 1961, little did they know that their careers would...
Aug 31, 2024 · 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]
