Cast & creator
Dick Clement
Best known for Wogan, Omnibus, Lovejoy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dick Clement, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
49
film credits
36
television credits
12
1961–2026 · acting roles
6.8
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (85)
Showing 85 of 85 credits
Wogan
Self
1982
Omnibus
Self
1967
Lovejoy
Writer
1986
Flushed Away
Screenplay
2006Flushed Away
Story
2006
Comedy Playhouse
Writer
1961Comedy Playhouse
Director
1961
The Bank Job
Screenplay
2008
Legends
Self
2006
Remembers…
Self
2022
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Writer
1973Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Director
1973
Porridge
Writer
1974Porridge
Creator
1974
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Writer
1983
Across the Universe
Screenplay
2007
The Likely Lads
Producer
1964The Likely Lads
Director
1964The Likely Lads
Writer
1964The Likely Lads
Creator
1964
Seven of One
Writer
1973
Goal!
Screenplay
2005
Going Straight
Writer
1978Going Straight
Creator
1978
The Commitments
Screenplay
1991The Commitments
Co-Producer
1991
The Rotters' Club
Adaptation
2005The Rotters' Club
Writer
2005The Rotters' Club
Creator
2005
Archangel
Writer
2005
Spies of Warsaw
Writer
2013Spies of Warsaw
Co-Executive Producer
2013Spies of Warsaw
Creator
2013On the Rocks
Creator
1975
Vice Versa
Producer
1988Vice Versa
Writer
1988Laat maar zitten
Creator
1988Drama Connections
2005
My Generation
Producer
2017My Generation
Writer
2017
Anyone for Denis?
Director
1982
Water
Director
1985Water
Writer
1985
The Prisoner of Zenda
Screenplay
1979
Still Crazy
Writer
1998Still Crazy
Executive Producer
1998
Joe & David's Magical Sitcom Tour
Self
2026
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Self
2016
Astronauts
Script Editor
1981Freddie and Max
Writer
1990
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
Self
2008
Porridge
Writer
2016
Hannibal Brooks
Screenplay
1969The New Adventures of Lucky Jim
Writer
1982
Thick as Thieves
Writer
1974
Villain
Screenplay
1971
Catch Me a Spy
Director
1971Catch Me a Spy
Writer
1971Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches
Self
2016
The Best of Ronnie Barker
Writer
2005
Killing Bono
Screenplay
2011
To Russia... with Elton
Director
1979To Russia... with Elton
Writer
1979To Russia... with Elton
Producer
1979
An Accidental Studio
Self
2019
The Commitments - Looking Back
Self
2004
A Severed Head
Director
1971
The Jokers
Screenplay
1967
Porridge: No Way Out
Writer
1975
Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe
Self
2002
Porridge
Director
1979Porridge
Writer
1979
Porridge: The Desperate Hours
Writer
1976
Honest
Writer
2000Honest
Executive Producer
2000
The Likely Lads
Writer
1976
Otley
Screenplay
1969Otley
Director
1969
Bullshot
Director
1983
Anyone for Denis
Director
1982
Sunset Limousine
Writer
1983
The Rooster
Script
1971There Goes the Neighborhood
Story
1983There Goes the Neighborhood
Teleplay
1983There Goes the Neighborhood
Producer
1983