Ray Cooney

Ray Cooney

BornRaymond George Alfred Cooney
(1932-05-30) 30 May 1932 (age 92)[1]
London, England[1]
Occupation
  • playwright
  • actor
  • director
Notable worksRun for Your Wife
Spouse
Linda Dixon
(m. 1962)
Children2; including Michael

Raymond George Alfred Cooney OBE (born 30 May 1932) is an English playwright, actor, and director.

His biggest success, Run for Your Wife (1983), ran for nine years in London's West End and is its longest-running comedy.[2] He has had 17 of his plays performed there.[3]

Career

Cooney began to act in 1946, appearing in many of the Whitehall farces of Brian Rix throughout the 1950s and 1960s. It was during this time that he co-wrote his first play, One For The Pot. With Tony Hilton, he co-wrote the screenplay for the British comedy film What a Carve Up! (1961), which features Sid James and Kenneth Connor.[4]

In 1968 and 1969, Cooney adapted Richard Gordon's Doctor novels for BBC radio, as series starring Richard Briers.[5] He also took parts in them.[6]

Cooney has also appeared on TV, (including an uncredited appearance in the Dial 999 (TV series) ' episode, 'A Mined Area', as a hold-up victim), and in several films, including a film adaptation of his successful theatrical farce Not Now, Darling (1973), which he co-wrote with John Chapman.[7] In 2000, he appeared in the Last of the Summer Wine episode "Last Post and Pigeon" where he played the role of a wordless and energetic French peasant.[8]

In 1983, Cooney created the Theatre of Comedy Company and became its artistic director. During his tenure the company produced over twenty plays such as Pygmalion (starring Peter O'Toole and John Thaw), Loot and Run For Your Wife. He co-wrote a farce with his son Michael, Tom, Dick and Harry (1993). Cooney produced and directed the film Run For Your Wife (2012), based on his own play.[9] The film however was not a success: it was savaged by critics and has been referred to as one of the worst films of all time.[10]

Cooney's farces combine a traditional British bawdiness with structural complication, as characters leap to assumptions, are forced to pretend to be things that they are not, and often talk at cross-purposes. He is greatly admired in France where he is known as "Le Feydeau Anglais" ("The English Feydeau") in reference to the French farceur Georges Feydeau. Many of his plays have been first produced, or revived, at the Théâtre de la Michodière in Paris.

In January 1975, Cooney was the subject of This Is Your Life when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at London's Savoy Hotel. In the 2005 New Year Honours, Cooney was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of his services to drama.[11][12]

Personal life

Cooney married Linda Dixon in 1962.[citation needed] One of their two sons, Michael, is a screenwriter.[13]

Bibliography

Filmography

Screenwriter

References

  1. ^ a b "Ray Cooney". BFI. Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Artist: Ray Cooney". Art & Culture. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007.
  3. ^ "In the Farce Lane". UK Writer. Writers' Guild of Great Britain. Spring 2005. Archived from the original on 6 February 2009.
  4. ^ "What a Carve Up (1961)". allmovie.com. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  5. ^ "Doctor At Large". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  6. ^ "Doctor In The House". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  7. ^ "Not Now Darling (1972)". BFI. Archived from the original on 26 April 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  8. ^ Bright, Morris; Ross, Robert (2000). Last of the Summer Wine: The Finest Vintage (|edition=1st ed.). London: BBC Worldwide Ltd. p. 40. ISBN 9780563551515.
  9. ^ "Run For Your Wife". Run For Your Wife. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
  10. ^ Bradshaw, Peter (23 February 2013). "Run For Your Wife". The Guardian.
  11. ^ "No. 57509". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2004. p. 10.
  12. ^ "Dramatist Cooney becomes an OBE". BBC News. 31 December 2004. Retrieved 3 February 2009.
  13. ^ Grigware, Don (19 November 2015). "BWW Interview: Internationally Renown British Actor/ Playwright RAY COONEY Talks About son Michael Cooney's CASH ON DELIVERY at the El Portal". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  14. ^ "Reviews - archive". www.pmpnetwork.com.

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