Ray Cooney
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Raymond George Alfred Cooney, OBE (born 30 May 1932) is an English playwright, actor, and producer.
Run for Your Wife (1983), his first attempt in London's West End, ran for nine years, and it is the longest-running comedy in the city.
He has seen 17 of his plays performed there.
Personal life
In 1962, Cooney married Linda Dixon. Michael, one of their two sons, is a screenwriter.
Career
In 1946, Cooney began to act in several of Brian Rix's Whitehall farces through the 1950s and 1960s. It was during this period that he co-wrote his first script, One For The Pot, that he was written. He co-wrote the screenplay for the British comedy film What a Carve Up! With Tony Hilton. Sid James and Kenneth Connor appear in the film (1961), which stars Sid James and Kenneth Connor.
Cooney adapted Richard Gordon's Doctor novels for BBC radio in 1968 and 1969 as part of a television series starring Richard Briers. He has participated in them as well.
Cooney has appeared on television (including an uncredited appearance in 'A Mined Area' as a hold-up perpetrator) and in several films, including a film version of his award-winning theatrical farce Not Now, Darling (1973), which he co-wrote with John Chapman.
Cooney founded the Theatre of Comedy Company in 1983 and became its artistic director. During his tenure as a director, Pygmalion (starring Peter O'Toole and John Thaw), Loot, and Run For Your Wife were among the company's most popular scripts. Michael, Tom, Dick, and Harry co-wrote a farce with his son Michael, Tom, Dick, and Harry (1993). Run For Your Wife (2012), based on Cooney's own script, was produced and directed by Cooney. The film, on the other hand, was not a success: critics attacked it and has been dubbed one of the worst films of all time.
Cooney's farces mix traditional British bawdiness with structural complication, as characters are encouraged to pretend to be things that they are not, and converse often at cross-purposes. In France, he is most popular, especially for his nickname, "Le Feydeau Anglais," ("The English Feydeau"), in reference to French farceur Georges Feydeau. Many of his plays were first performed or revived at the Théâtre de la Michodière in Paris.
Cooney was the star of This Is Your Life when he was welcomed by Eamonn Andrews at London's Savoy Hotel in January 1975. In 2005, Cooney was made Officer of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his contribution to drama.