Roy Clarke (born January 28, 1930 in Goole, Yorkshire) is a British comedy writer, best known for creating Last of the Summer Wine starring Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde, Kathy Staff and Dame Thora Hird amongst others (he also wrote the prequel First of the Summer Wine); and Keeping Up Appearances which starred Patricia Routledge and featured Geoffrey Hughes, Coronation Street's Eddie Yeats. January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Goole is a town and port located on the River Ouse in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in northeast England. ... Yorkshire as a traditional county. ... Comedy is the use of humour in the performing arts. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Last of the Summer Wine, written by Roy Clarke, is a British sitcom, which has run longer than any other comedy series in the world, now in its twenty-sixth series. ... Bill Rowbotham (March 14, 1914 - July 12, 1999), better known as Bill Owen, was a British actor and songwriter. ... Peter Sallis (b. ... Brian Wilde (b. ... Kathy Staff (born July 12, 1928) is a British actress born at Dukinfield, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. ... Dame Thora Hird (May 28, 1911 - March 15, 2003) was a veteran British actress born in the Lancashire seaside town of Morecambe. ... A prequel is a work that portrays events which are set in the same universe as a previously completed narrative, but at an earlier time. ... Keeping Up Appearances is a British sitcom (sometimes referred to as a Britcom in America) which ran on BBC1 from 1990 to 1993 and again in 1995. ... Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth Bucket Patricia Routledge (born 17 February 1929) is a popular British actress, best known for television roles such as Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances. ... Geoffrey Hughes (born February 2, 1944 in Wallasey, Cheshire) is a British actor, best known for his portrayal of Eddie Yeats, Hilda Ogdens scallywag lodger in Granada Televisions Coronation Street, a role he played from 1974 to 1983. ...

Clarke has also worked in film, and wrote the acclaimed drama A Foreign Field (1993). A Foreign Field (1993) is a motion picture about British and American World War II veterans returning to the beaches of Normandy as old men. ... See also: 1992 in film, other events of 1993, 1994 in film, list of years in film. Events March 31 - Actor Brandon Lee is accidentally killed during the filming of The Crow. ...