Cliff Hanley

Clifford Leonard Clark Hanley (28 October 1922 – 9 August 1999) was a journalist, novelist, playwright and broadcaster from Glasgow in Scotland. Originally from Shettleston in the city's East End, he was educated at Eastbank Academy.

He also wrote a number of books, including Dancing in the Street, an account of his early life in Glasgow (in its contemporaneous serialisation in The Evening Times, retitled My Gay Glasgow), The Taste of Too Much, a "rite of passage" novel about a secondary schoolboy (possibly semi-autobiographical) and The Scots.

During the 1960s and 1970s he published thrillers under the pen-name Henry Calvin. They were more successful in the US and Canada than in the UK.

He also wrote the words of Scotland's unofficial national anthem Scotland the Brave, and both wrote and recorded The Glasgow Underground Song - a humorous anecdote on the pre-modernisation era Glasgow Subway. A recording of this was made famous by Francie and Josie.

He wrote a number of film and TV scripts, including 'Between the Lines', which was described by Mary Whitehouse as the filthiest programme she had seen on TV, Seawards the Great Ships, The Bowler and the Bunnet, and the 1973 adaptation of The New Road.

Hanley is father of the artist, with whom he shares a name as well as a birthday.

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Name	Hanley,Cliff
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Date of birth	28 October 1922
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Date of death	9 August 1999
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• imdb entry