Ian La Frenais, OBE, (born 7 January 1937), is in partnership with Dick Clement, one of the most influential television writers in Britain. Their fame rests primarily on four series, The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
They have also written various other work for TV and a number of films, including The Commitments (with Roddy Doyle), Still Crazy, Goal!, Flushed Away, Across the Universe and ...
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Ian La Frenais, OBE, (born 7 January 1937), is in partnership with Dick Clement, one of the most influential television writers in Britain. Their fame rests primarily on four series, The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
They have also written various other work for TV and a number of films, including The Commitments (with Roddy Doyle), Still Crazy, Goal!, Flushed Away, Across the Universe and cinema versions of some of their own TV successes. La Frenais himself adapted the series Lovejoy from the Jonathan Gash books for BBC television in the 1980s.
Since 1984, he has been married to artist Doris Vartan, the mother of actor Michael Vartan. He was awarded an OBE in the Queen's 2007 Birthday Honours list.
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