Clive Exton was born Clive Jack Montague Brooks in Islington, London, England, the son of a civil service clerk.
11 Facts About Clive Exton
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Clive Exton spent two years in the British Army, stationed in Germany.
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Clive Exton wrote The Boundary, with Tom Stoppard, for the BBC's experimental series The Eleventh Hour.
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Clive 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 1970s.
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Clive Exton contributed, under the pen name M K Jeeves, two episodes to the first season of Terry Nation's Survivors for the BBC.
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Clive Exton said that the only feature film he ever wrote that pleased him was 10 Rillington Place, with Sir Richard Attenborough.
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Clive Exton co-wrote The Awakening, an adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel The Jewel of Seven Stars, and the action-adventure Red Sonja, and, uncredited, contributed to The Bounty before returning to Britain.
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Clive Exton dramatised for television works by Jean Cocteau, Daphne du Maurier, Graham Greene, Somerset Maugham, Ruth Rendell, Georges Simenon and H G Wells.
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Clive Exton was married twice, first to Patricia Fletcher Ferguson, with whom he had two daughters, and then from 1957 until his death to Margaret "Mara" Reid, with whom he had three children, two daughters and a son.
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Clive Exton died in London of brain cancer on 16 August 2007.
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Clive Exton's ashes are buried on the east side of Highgate Cemetery.