Brian Clemens
Brian Horace Clemens OBE ( born 1931 in Croydon, England ) is a British screenwriter and film producer. He is also the creator of the series The Avengers and melon.
Life
Clemens already went off at the age of 14 years of school. Later, he did his military service in the British Army. Subsequently, he was hired as an office boy at the advertising agency JWT, where he worked his way to the copywriter. In addition to working his first screenplay was. 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 screenplays for several television series. From the late 1950s he wrote increasingly for Independent Television, among other things, for the popular series secret mission for John Drake with Patrick McGoohan in the title role.
In 1961 he wrote the pilot episode of The Avengers and melon. When these went into production, he accompanied her as a writer, producer and story editor. The series starring Patrick Macnee in the lead role was first produced in the world and a great success until 1969. In addition, he personally chose Diana Rigg as a successor of Honor Blackman to their departure from the series. He was nominated as the producer of The Avengers and melon for an Emmy in 1968, but won this year Cobra, accept the award. In the 1960s and 1970s he was involved in numerous successful series formats, including The Baron, The Two and Gene Bradley on a secret mission.
In the meantime he had founded with The Avengers ( Film and TV) Enterprises Ltd. his own production company with which he Avengers and melon produced from 1976 to 1977 a reprint of. As far more successful, however, proved a different production, the professionals. In the 1980s, he tried in the United States to its success in the home country to tie. Attempts to adapt his hit series, along with producer Quinn Martin for the American market, but failed. Instead, he moved back to the screenwriting and worked on the U.S. series such as Remington Steele and Father Dowling Mysteries.
Clemens also wrote the screenplays for several feature films, including Hammer Films Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde and Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter, his only directorial effort. Together with the stop-motion legend Ray Harryhausen, he wrote the book to Sinbad dangerous adventures. The return from his pen - In addition Highlander II comes.
Clemens is married to his second wife and has two sons. In 2010 he was awarded for his contribution to British television with the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire.