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Brian Cooke is a comedy veteran who created and wrote many popular sitcoms with Johnnie Mortimer and others. Learn more about his biography, contact details and works on his home page.
Brian Cooke (born 1937) is a British comedy writer who, with co-writer Johnnie Mortimer, penned scripts for and devised many top 1970s/80s television sitcoms, including Man About the House, George and Mildred, and Robin's Nest.
Stop Messing About was a BBC radio series broadcast in 1969 and 1970. Forced by circumstance into being a follow-up to Round the Horne, it retained a number of key talents from the previous show, with Kenneth Williams as the new show's main star. It was rewritten for the stage in 2009.
Archive interview with celebrated comedy writer Brian Cooke, chatting about his adaptation of MEN FROM THE MINISTRY at White Bear theatre January 2017. Men From the Ministry was a classic BBC radio comedy that was broadcast from 1962-77.
Too Close for Comfort: Created by Brian Cooke, Earl Barret, Arne Sultan, Douglas Arango, Phil Doran. With Ted Knight, Nancy Dussault, Jim J. Bullock, Deborah Van Valkenburgh. In liberal San Francisco a conservative cartoonist tries to keep his two daughters, who rent an apartment below him, safe.
Sep 11, 2017 · More than a decade ago original Round the Horne writer, Brian Cooke, and director Michael Kingsbury brought the much-loved 1960s radio series to the West End. Staged as a live BBC recording, the production was a reminder of a time when radio was at the cutting edge of popular culture, drawing vast audiences every week to BBC comedy shows.
Brian Cooke is a British comedy scriptwriter and playwright. He started his career as a writer for the last series of the 1960s radio comedy Round the Horne and its short-lived successor Stop Messing About.
