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Clive Exton (11 April 1930 – 16 August 2007) was a British television and film screenwriter, sometime playwright, and former actor. He is best known for his scripts of Agatha Christie's ''Poirot,'' P. G. Wodehouse's ''Jeeves and Wooster,'' and ''Rosemary & Thyme.''〔(Exton Bio ) @ IMDb〕〔Barker, Dennis. (Clive Exton ) Obituary – The Guardian Unlimited – Tuesday 21 August 2007〕〔(''"Clive Exton: TV writer of intelligence and depth"'' ) Obituaries section – The Independent – 18 August 2007〕〔(Clive Exton ) Obituaries – The Daily Telegraph – 20 August 2007〕〔(Clive Exton ) Obituaries – The Times – 22 August 2007〕 ==Early career== He was born Clive Jack Montague Brooks in Islington, London, England, the son of a civil service clerk. He spent two years in the British Army, stationed in Germany.〔〔〔〔〔 Equity, the actors' union, required his change of professional name, as there was already an actor registered under the name Clive Brook. After training at the Central School of Speech and Drama and deciding to act, he borrowed the name Exton from the character "Sir Piers Exton" in the William Shakespeare play ''Richard II''. 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. He later wrote "The Close Prisoner" (also with Kotcheff) for ATV's ''Studio 64'' – a season of plays designed to emphasise 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. 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.〔 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''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clive Exton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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