Brian Clemens

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Brian Horace Clemens , OBE (born July 30, 1931 in Croydon , England - † January 10, 2015 in London ) was a British screenwriter and film producer . Among other things, he is the creator of the series With Umbrella, Charm and Melon .

Life

Clemens left school at the age of 14. He later did his military service in the British Army . He then got a job as an office messenger at the advertising agency JWT , where he worked his way up to a copywriter . In addition to his work, he wrote his first script. In the mid-1950s he worked for the film production company Danziger Brothers , which had specialized in B-movies and television productions. There he wrote episode scripts for various television series. From the late 1950s he wrote increasingly for independent television , including the popular series Secret Order for John Drake with Patrick McGoohan in the title role.

In 1961 he wrote the pilot episode of Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone . When this went into series, he accompanied her as a writer, producer and story editor . The series with Patrick Macnee in the lead role was a great success worldwide and initially produced until 1969. He also personally selected Diana Rigg to succeed Honor Blackman after she left the series. In 1968 he was nominated for an Emmy as the producer of Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone , but that year Kobra won the award. In the 1960s and 1970s he was involved in numerous successful series formats, including The Baron , Die 2 and Gene Bradley on a secret mission .

In the meantime he had founded his own production company with The Avengers (Film and Television) Enterprises Ltd , with which he produced a new edition of Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone from 1976 to 1977 . Another production, Die Profis, turned out to be far more successful . In the 1980s he tried to build on his success in his home country in the United States . Attempts to adapt his successful series together with the producer Quinn Martin for the American market, however, failed. Instead, he turned back to screenwriting and worked on American series such as Remington Steele and A Blessed Team .

Clemens also wrote the scripts for several feature films, including the hammer films Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde and Captain Kronos - vampire hunters , his only directorial work. Together with the stop-motion legend Ray Harryhausen , he wrote the book about Sindbad's dangerous adventures . In addition, Highlander II - The Return is from his pen.

Clemens was married for the second time and had two sons. In 2010 he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire for his services to British television . He died in a London hospital on January 10, 2015 at the age of 83.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 1968: Emmy nomination for With Umbrella, Charm and Melon
  • 1972: Edgar nomination for Boots That Mean Death

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lucy Grossley: The man who made stars of Diana Rigg, Honor Blackman and Joanna Lumley dies aged 83: Brian Clemens created The Avengers, The New Avengers and The Professionals. In: Daily Mail of January 12, 2015 (accessed January 13, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Clement, Brian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clemens, Brian Horace (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Croydon , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2015
Place of death London , England , UK