Brian Horace Clemens was an English screenwriter and television producer.
17 Facts About Brian Clemens
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Brian Clemens worked on the British TV series The Avengers and created The New Avengers and The Professionals.
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Brian Clemens was offered a job with a private detective agency, but this involved taking a training course in the city of Leeds and, as he had been away from home in London for two years, he decided he did not want to go away again.
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Brian Clemens wrote for ITC Entertainment's thriller series The Invisible Man, Sir Francis Drake, and Danger Man, for which he had written the pilot.
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Brian Clemens's output was so prolific during the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s that he frequently used the pseudonym Tony O'Grady.
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Brian Clemens wrote the second episode for The Avengers in 1961 but not the pilot, as is often claimed.
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Brian Clemens wrote one other episode for the first season and multiple episodes of the third season.
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Brian Clemens cast Diana Rigg to replace departing star Honor Blackman in The Avengers.
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Brian Clemens was rather a stooge to Patrick Macnee's Steed.
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Brian Clemens created the BBC TV sitcom My Wife Next Door but left the scriptwriting to Richard Waring.
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Brian Clemens followed this with a twist-in-the-tail anthology series Thriller, for which he wrote all the stories as well as 38 of the scripts.
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Brian Clemens wrote for the Bugs TV series in the UK and Highlander: The Series in the US.
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In 1988, Brian Clemens wrote the play Holmes and the Ripper, which was inspired by Stephen Knight's book Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution.
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In 2008 Brian Clemens wrote the play Murder Hunt, which was performed at The Mill at Sonning and starred David Monteith as Captain K'Maka, a native African policeman who has to find the murderer amongst a bunch of guests stranded at a remote safari lodge.
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Brian Clemens married his first wife Brenda Prior in 1955; they divorced in 1966.
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Brian Clemens then married Janet Elizabeth with whom he had two sons; they stayed together until his death.
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Brian Clemens was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2010 Birthday Honours.