Clive Exton

Clive Exton (11 April 1930 – 16 August 2007) was a British television and film screenwriter who wrote scripts for the series Poirot, Jeeves and Wooster and Rosemary & Thyme.

He then contributed to Sydney Newman's Armchair Theatre series which included the episodes: "Where I Live", "Hold My Hand, Soldier", "I'll Have You to Remember," and "The Trial of Doctor Fancy," among others; the best of them being directed by Ted Kotcheff.

He later wrote "The Close Prisoner" (also with Kotcheff) for ATV's Studio 64 – a season of plays designed to emphasise the role of the writer in television – and Land of My Dreams, The Bone Yard, The Big Eat, Are You Ready For the Music?

Other films include Night Must Fall, The House in Nightmare Park, Isadora (with Melvyn Bragg and starring Vanessa Redgrave) and Entertaining Mr Sloane (from the Joe Orton play).

Exton wrote only sporadically for the theatre: Barking in Essex made its West End début in September 2013 and starred Lee Evans, Sheila Hancock and Keeley Hawes.