Clive Exton (11 April 1930 - 16 August 2007) was a British television and film scriptwriter and sometime playwright and former actor. Best known for his scripts of Agatha Christie’s Poirot (1989-2000), P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster (1990-1993) and Rosemary & Thyme (2003-2006).^{[1][2][3][4][5]} is the 101st day of the year (102nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... “Moving picture” redirects here. ... This list is poorly defined, permanently incomplete, or has become unverifiable or an indiscriminate list or repository of loosely associated topics. ... A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), mainly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction writer. ... Poirot can refer to: Hercule Poirot, fictional detective created by Agatha Christie Agatha Christies Poirot, also called simply Poirot, television series starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975) (IPA: ) was an English comic writer who has enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. ... Jeeves and Wooster is a humourous television series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouses Jeeves stories, and produced by Carnival Films for Granada Television, and screened on the United Kingdoms ITV network from 1990 to 1993. ... Rosemary & Thyme was a British television series that starred Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris as gardening detectives Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme. ...

Born Clive Jack Montague Brooks in the Islington suburb of London, England, the son of a civil service clerk, he borrowed the name Exton from the William Shakespeare play Richard II, and the character "Sir Piers Exton." He spent two years in the British Army, stationed in Germany.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} , Islington is the central district of the London Borough of Islington. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Title page of Richard II, from the fifth quarto, published in 1615. ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ...

His first television play, No Fixed Abode, was transmitted by Granada Television in 1959. 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. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sydney Cecil Newman OC (April 1, 1917—October 30, 1997) was a Canadian film and television producer, best remembered for the pioneering work he undertook in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. ... For the album of the same name, see Armchair Theatre (Jeff Lynne album) Armchair Theatre was a British television drama anthology series, which ran on the ITV network from 1956 until 1968 in its original form, and was intermittently resurrected at various points during the 1970s. ... Ted Kotcheff (sometimes credited as William Kotcheff or William T. Kotcheff; born April 7, 1931 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Bulgarian-Canadian film and television director, who is well known for his work on several high-profile British television productions and as a director of films such as First...

He later wrote "The Close Prisoner" (also with Kotcheff) for ATV's Studio 64 - a season of plays designed to emphasize the role of the writer in television - and Land of My Dreams, The Bone Yard, The Big Eat, Are You Ready For the Music ? and The Rainbirds for the BBC. He also wrote The Boundary (1975), with Tom Stoppard, for the BBC’s experimental series The Eleventh Hour. Most of this early work is now lost, having been made at a time when programmes recorded on tape were routinely wiped and telerecordings discarded. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... Sir Tom Stoppard, OM, CBE (born as Tomáš Straussler on July 3, 1937)[1] is an Academy Award winning British playwright of more than 24 plays. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Telerecording (known as kinescoping in the USA) is the British name for a process pioneered during the 1940s for the storing of electronically-shot television programmes on film, which was used for the preservation, re-broadcasting and sale of television programmes before the use of commercial broadcast-quality videotape became...

Exton then moved away from the single play and initiated series such as Killers, Conceptions of Murder and The Crezz, a depiction of Notting Hill life in the seventies. He also contributed, under the nom de plume M. K. Jeeves, two episodes to the first season of Terry Nation's Survivors for the BBC.^[1] This article or section needs additional references or sources to improve its verifiability. ... A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author. ... Terry Nation (August 8, 1930 – March 9, 1997) was a British television screenwriter and is probably best known for creating the villainous Daleks for the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Survivors was a British television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ...

Exton said that the only feature film he ever wrote that pleased him was 10 Rillington Place, with Sir Richard Attenborough (1971). Other films include Night Must Fall, Entertaining Mr Sloane (from the Joe Orton play) and Isadora (with Melvyn Bragg and starring Vanessa Redgrave). He worked without credit on many films, but it is now known that he made major contributions to the scripts of Georgy Girl and The Bounty. 10 Rillington Place, Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill, London, was the site of the crimes of John Reginald Christie, one of Britains most notorious serial killers, resulting in a miscarriage of justice which contributed towards the abolition of the death penalty in Britain. ... Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE, KBE (born August 29, 1923) is an English actor, director, producer, and entrepreneur. ... Night Must Fall is a play, a psychological thriller, by Emlyn Williams, first performed in 1935. ... Entertaining Mr Sloane is a play by Joe Orton. ... Joe Orton Joe Orton (Born: John Kingsley Orton 1 January 1933, Leicester, England. ... Isadora (also known as The Loves of Isadora) is a 1968 biographical film which tells the story of dancer Isadora Duncan. ... Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, FRSL, FRTS (born 6 October 1939, in Wigton, Cumberland) is a British author and broadcaster. ... Vanessa Redgrave, CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an Academy Award winning English actress and member of the Redgrave family, one of the enduring theatrical dynasties. ... Georgy Girl is a 1966 British film, based on a novel by Margaret Forster. ... See Bounty for other uses of Bounty. The Bounty is a 1984 drama film with Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins based on the 1973 book by Richard Alexander Hough, which itself was based on a historical event. ...

A 10-year stay in Hollywood bore little fruit. He co-wrote the action-adventure Red Sonja (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1985), and, uncredited, contributed to The Bounty (with Sir Anthony Hopkins, 1984) before returning to Britain, where a new era awaited him. ... Red Sonja, a warrior woman out of majestic Hyrkania, is a low fantasy sword and sorcery heroine created by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith. ... Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): ) (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of the U.S. state of California. ... For the composer, see Antony Hopkins. ...

Returning to England in 1986, Exton found that the television business had radically changed through the rise of the independent producer, such as Brian Eastman, for whom he wrote most of the episodes (20) of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, with David Suchet (1989-2000), all of the episodes (23) of Jeeves and Wooster, with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry (1990-1993), and ten episodes of Rosemary & Thyme (2003-2006). Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), mainly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction writer. ... Poirot can refer to: Hercule Poirot, fictional detective created by Agatha Christie Agatha Christies Poirot, also called simply Poirot, television series starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... David Suchet OBE (born May 2, 1946) is an English actor best known for his television portrayal of Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot in the television series Agatha Christies Poirot. ... Jeeves and Wooster is a humourous television series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouses Jeeves stories, and produced by Carnival Films for Granada Television, and screened on the United Kingdoms ITV network from 1990 to 1993. ... James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE (born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, comedian and writer known as Hugh Laurie. ... Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, writer, actor, novelist, filmmaker and television personality. ... Rosemary & Thyme was a British television series that starred Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris as gardening detectives Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme. ...

He also dramatised for television works by Jean Cocteau, Daphne du Maurier, Graham Greene, Somerset Maugham, Ruth Rendell, Georges Simenon and H. G. Wells.^[1][2] Jean Cocteau Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker. ... Dame Daphne du Maurier DBE (13 May 1907–19 April 1989) was a famous British novelist best known for her short story The Birds and her classic novel Rebecca, published in 1938. ... This article is about the writer. ... W. Somerset Maugham as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten. ... Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, (born February 17, 1930), is a British best-selling mystery and psychological crime writer, often called the Queen of Crime. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon and The Island of Doctor Moreau. ...

He was married twice, first to Patricia Fletcher Ferguson (1951-1957), with whom he had two daughters, and then to Margaret "Mara" Reid (1957-2007), with whom he had three children, two daughters and a son. He passed away, in London, at age 77 of brain cancer.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} A brain tumor is any mass created by an abnormal and uncontrolled growth of cells either found in the brain (neurons, glial cells, epithelial cells, myelin producing cells, etc. ...

Exton wrote only sporadically for the theatre:

• Have You Any Dirty Washing, Mother Dear? (1970)
• Twixt (1990), Dressing Down (1995)
• Barking in Essex (2005)

References

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External links

• Clive Exton at the Internet Movie Database