Ian La Frenais

Ian La Frenais
Born	(1936-01-07) 7 January 1936 Monkseaton, Northumberland, England^[1]
Occupation	Screenwriter
Nationality	British
Education	Dame Allan's Boys School, Newcastle upon Tyne
Period	1964–present
Genre	Television
Spouse	Doris Vartan (1984–present)
Relatives	Gladys and Cyril La Frenais (parents)^[1]

Ian La Frenais, OBE (born 7 January 1936), 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.

Early life

His father was an accountant and as a child at Park Primary School in Whitley Bay La Frenais enjoyed art and writing. He then attended Dame Allan's Boys School, Newcastle upon Tyne and completed his National Service in the British Army. After working as a salesman for a tobacco company he began composing songs for a weekly satirical programme on Tyne Tees Television and moved to London where he worked for a market research company.^[2]

Writing partnership with Dick Clement

In addition to The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Porridge, Lovejoy and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet La Frenais and Clement have also written various other work for TV and films. Their works include; Hannibal Brooks, The Commitments (with Roddy Doyle), Still Crazy, Goal!, Flushed Away, Across the Universe and cinema versions of some of their own TV programmes.

Other credits

In addition to his long-running collaborations with Clement, La Frenais has created, written and/or contributed to many other TV series including Thick as Thieves (1974), The Two Ronnies, several episodes of the BBC's Comedy Playhouse, The Other 'Arf (1980–81), the hit 1990s BBC detective series Spender (co-written with actor/singer Jimmy Nail), and episodes of Tracey Ullman's sketch comedy series Tracey Takes On....

Since 1984, he has been married to artist Doris Vartan, the mother of actor Michael Vartan. He was appointed an OBE in the Queen's 2007 Birthday Honours list.

References

1 2 Ian La Frenais Biography (1937-)
↑ Richard Webster; Dick Clement; Ian la Frenais (2001). Porridge The Inside Story. Headline Book Publishing. ISBN 0-7472-3294-6.

External links

Works by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais

Sitcoms	The Likely Lads (1964–66) Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973–74) Porridge (1974–77) Thick as Thieves (1974) Going Straight (1978) Tracey Takes On... (1996–99) Parents of the Band (2008–09)

Other series	Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983–2004) Lovejoy (1986–94) Archangel (2005) The Rotters' Club (2005)

Films	The Jokers (1967) Otley (1968) To Catch a Spy (1971) Villain (1971) The Likely Lads (1976) Porridge (1979) The Prisoner of Zenda (1979) Never Say Never Again (1983) Water (1985) The Commitments (1991) Excess Baggage (1997) Still Crazy (1998) Honest (2000) Goal! (2005) Flushed Away (2006) Across the Universe (2007) The Bank Job (2008) Killing Bono (2011) Bunyan and Babe (2016)

Theatre work	Billy (1974)

As script editors	Astronauts (1981–82)

Other film work	Bullshot (1983) Vice Versa (1988)

Clement alone	Anyone for Denis? (director, 1982)

La Frenais alone	Percy's Progress (film, 1971) My Old Man (with others, 1974–75) The Other 'Arf (with others, 1980–84) Spender (with others, 1991–93)

Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production

Andrew Stanton, Joss Whedon, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow (1996)
Rita Hsiao, Chris Sanders, Philip LaZebnik, Raymond Singer and Eugenia Bostwick-Singer (1998)
Brad Bird and Tim McCanlies (1999)
John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Ash Brannon, Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin and Chris Webb (2000)
Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger S. H. Schulman (2001)
Hayao Miyazaki (2002)
Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and David Reynolds (2003)
Brad Bird (2004)
Steve Box, Nick Park and Mark Burton (2005)
Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Christopher Lloyd, Joe Keenan and William Davies (2006)
Brad Bird (2007)
Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger (2008)
Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach (2009)
Chris Sanders, Will Davies and Dean DeBlois (2010)
James Ward Byrkit, John Logan and Gore Verbinski (2011)
Phil Johnston and Jennifer Lee (2012)
Hayao Miyazaki (2013)
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (2014)
Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley (2015)

BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1983)
Bruce Robinson (1984)
Richard Condon and Janet Roach (1985)
Kurt Luedtke (1986)
Claude Berri and Gérard Brach (1987)
Jean-Claude Carrière and Philip Kaufman (1988)
Christopher Hampton (1989)
Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese (1990)
Dick Clement, Roddy Doyle and Ian La Frenais (1991)
Michael Tolkin (1992)
Steven Zaillian (1993)
Paul Attanasio (1994)
John Hodge (1995)
Anthony Minghella (1996)
Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce (1997)
Elaine May (1998)
Neil Jordan (1999)
Stephen Gaghan (2000)
Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Roger S. H. Schulman and Joe Stillman (2001)
Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman (2002)
Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh (2003)
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (2005)
Jeremy Brock and Peter Morgan (2006)
Ronald Harwood (2007)
Simon Beaufoy (2008)
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (2009)
Aaron Sorkin (2010)
Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan (2011)
David O. Russell (2012)
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope (2013)
Anthony McCarten (2014)
Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (2015)

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