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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), Goal!, and Flushed Away, and cinema versions of some of their own TV successes. La Frenais himself adapted the very popular series Lovejoy from the Jonathon 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.

La Frenais was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, the son of Gladys and Cyril La Frenais.[1]

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Supporting Cast		 Tim Healy • Kevin Whately • Jimmy Nail • Gary Holton • Christopher Fairbank • Pat Roach • Timothy Spall
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Dick Clement OBE (born September 5, 1937) is an English writer.

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The Likely Lads was a hit British sitcom created and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Twenty episodes were made and broadcast in all, over three seasons, by the BBC between December 1964 and July 1966. However, only eight of these shows have survived intact.
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Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? was a hit British sitcom broadcast between January 1973 and December 1974, as the colour sequel to the mid-1960s hit The Likely Lads. It was created and written, as was its predecessor, by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
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Porridge was a British BBC television sitcom (1974–1977), written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale. In a 2004 BBC poll of the 50 greatest British sitcoms, it was voted number 6.
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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet was a popular British comedy-drama series about a group of seven British migrant construction workers: Wayne, Dennis, Oz, Bomber, Barry, Neville and Moxey, who, in Series 1, are living and working on a German building site.
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Lovejoy is a series of picaresque novels by John Grant (under the pen name Jonathan Gash) about the adventures of Lovejoy, a British antiques dealer based in East Anglia whose scruples are not always the highest.
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Michael Vartan

Birth name Michael Vartan
Born November 27 1968 (1968--) (age 40)
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France

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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet was a popular British comedy-drama series about a group of seven British migrant construction workers: Wayne, Dennis, Oz, Bomber, Barry, Neville and Moxey, who, in Series 1, are living and working on a German building site.
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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
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Dick Clement OBE (born September 5, 1937) is an English writer.

Born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, Clement is, in partnership with Ian La Frenais, one of the most successful television writers in Britain.
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Francis George Roddam (born April 29, 1946, Norton, Stockton-on-Tees) is an English film director and documentary maker.

He is best known for the film Quadrophenia and the early reality television series The Family.
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Joe Fagin (born in January 1940) is a British singer.

He was musical director for Jim Davidson, including his 1983 Falklands tour.

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Tim Healy

Birth name Tim Healy
Born January 29 1952 (1952--) (age 55)
Birtley, County Durham, England
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Kevin Whately (born February 6, 1951) is an English actor best known as Neville Hope in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis in Inspector Morse on television.
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