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Brian Horace Clemens OBE (30 July 1931 – 10 January 2015) was an English screenwriter and television producer, possibly best known for his work on ''The Avengers'' and ''The Professionals''. Clemens was related to Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), a fact reflected in the naming of his two sons, Samuel Joshua Twain Clemens and George Langhorne Clemens. ==Early life and career== Clemens was born in Croydon, London.〔(Internet Movie Database )〕 His father was an engineer, but also worked in music halls.〔 Clemens left school aged 14. Following National Service in the British Army at Aldershot,〔 where he was a weapons training instructor in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps,〔 Clemens wanted to be a journalist but decided he did not have any qualifications. He was offered a job with a private detective agency, but this involved taking a training course in the Northern English 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.〔 Instead, he worked his way up from messenger boy at the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency. While he was a copywriter there, he had a thriller screenplay accepted and shot by BBC TV - ''Valid for Single Journey Only'' (1955).〔 This brought him to the attention of independent, low-budget movie producers, the Danziger brothers.〔 From the mid-1950s onwards, Clemens was a staff writer for the Danzigers, churning out dozens of quickie scripts for assembly-line 'B' movies and half-hour television series such as ''Mark Saber'' (ITV, 1957–1959; aka ''Saber of London''), ''White Hunter'' (ITV, 1958–1960), ''The Man from Interpol'' (ITV, 1960–1961), and ''Richard The Lionheart'' (ITV, 1961–1965).〔 However, he also wrote for ITC Entertainment's thriller series ''The Invisible Man'' (ITV, 1958–1959), ''Sir Francis Drake'' (ITV, 1961–1962), and ''Danger Man'' (ITV, 1960–1961; 1964–1967; aka ''Secret Agent''),〔 for which he had also written the pilot.〔 His output was so prolific during the late 50s and throughout the 1960s that he frequently used the pseudonym Tony O'Grady. 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「Brian Clemens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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