Cast & creator
Ian La Frenais
Best known for Saturday Night Live, The South Bank Show, Wogan
45
film credits
36
television credits
11
1961–2026 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (81)
Showing 81 of 81 credits
Saturday Night Live
Writer
1975
The South Bank Show
Self
1978
Wogan
Self
1982
Omnibus
Self
1967
Lovejoy
Writer
1986Lovejoy
Creator
1986
Flushed Away
Screenplay
2006Flushed Away
Story
2006
Comedy Playhouse
Writer
1961
The Bank Job
Screenplay
2008
Legends
Self
2006
Remembers…
Self
2022
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Writer
1973
Spender
Creator
1991
Porridge
Writer
1974Porridge
Creator
1974
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Writer
1983
Across the Universe
Screenplay
2007
The Likely Lads
Writer
1964The Likely Lads
Producer
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
Writer
1988Vice Versa
Producer
1988Laat maar zitten
Creator
1988
My Generation
Writer
2017My Generation
Producer
2017Comedy Map of Britain
2007
Water
Producer
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
Screenplay
1971
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
Other
1971
The Jokers
Screenplay
1967
Porridge: No Way Out
Writer
1975
Porridge
Writer
1979
Porridge: The Desperate Hours
Writer
1976
Percy's Progress
Additional Dialogue
1974
Honest
Writer
2000Honest
Executive Producer
2000
The Likely Lads
Writer
1976
Otley
Screenplay
1969
The Touchables
Screenplay
1968
The Virgin Soldiers
Writer
1969
Bullshot
Producer
1983
Sunset Limousine
Writer
1983There Goes the Neighborhood
Story
1983There Goes the Neighborhood
Teleplay
1983There Goes the Neighborhood
Producer
1983