Ian La Frenais OBE (born 7 January 1937) is an English writer best known for his creative partnership with Dick Clement.
[3] Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement have enjoyed a long and successful career embracing films, television and theatre.
Their partnership began in the mid-1960s with the hit television show The Likely Lads,[4] and by the end of the decade they had also written three feature films: The Jokers,[5] Otley (directed by Clement) and Hannibal Brooks.
By the late 1970s, they were living in California, where they wrote On the Rocks, an American version of Porridge,[7] and The Prisoner of Zenda, a feature film starring Peter Sellers.
In addition, they did uncredited rewrites on The Rock (starring Sean Connery) for Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay.
More recent television includes Archangel (starring Daniel Craig) and The Rotters' Club,[5] which they adapted from best-sellers by Robert Harris and Jonathan Coe respectively.