Biography
Raymond George Alfred Cooney (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. He has had 17 of his plays performed there. 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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Tout Va Très Bien !
2025
Writer

Out of Order
2024
Original Story
When gold medal lawyer Hu Gongping was having a secret meeting with his lover She Xiaoman, a body suddenly fell from the sky in the room. Hu Gongping ...

Le vison voyageur
2023
Writer

Ektos eleghou... ola
2022
Writer

Espèces menacées
2021
Author

Mayday
2020
Theatre Play
Janek, who has two wives, skillfully maneuvers between them. The risk that one of his loved ones will learn about a double relationship increases dram...

C'est encore mieux l'après-midi
2019
Theatre Play

Kölcsönlakás
2019
Screenplay
Balázs and his wife Anikó share their apartment’s renovation schedule with playboy Henrik and his latest girlfriend, while designer András and his adm...

10 Rules for Sleeping Around
2013
Theatre Play, Thanks
By following ten simple rules, 20-somethings Vince and Cameron spice up their relationship by sleeping around. But when their straitlaced friends get...

Run For Your Wife
2012
Writer, Director
John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately...

Out Of Order
2010
Novel
A parliament member suddenly finds a dead body in his hotel room...
Außer Kontrolle
2009
Author
The Franconian Minister of State in the government, Richard Wilhelm, has perfectly arranged a tête-à-tête with an opposition secretary: The husband th...

Baby Baby, Balla Balla!
2007
Book

Chat et souris
2007
Theatre Play

Not Now, Sweetheart
2006
Writer
Vasilis Tsivilikas directs and stars in this hilarious comedy of romantic misunderstandings by masters of the genre, Ray Cooney and John Chapman. The ...

Funny Money
2006
Executive Producer, Author
Henry Perkins, a mild-mannered accountant, accidentally trades briefcases with another man, to find out that there's a million dollars inside. Henry t...

Koita poios irthe!
2005
Writer
An exercise in skill for the actors, as two different families coexist in the same interior space (living room, bedroom, children's room, dining room,...

Τα θέλει ο... Κολοτράβας μας
2005
Writer
Dure bi rot
2004
Author
The lively Oskar faces the biggest challenge of his retirement. The double life of his bigamist friend Hugo threatens to be exposed. To prevent this, ...

№13
2003
Writer

Impair et père
2002
Theatre Play

Hrimata fantasmata
2002
Writer
A hilarious romantic comedy about people's behavior and dreams when money falls from the sky! The play begins as an unrestrained farce, only to end up...

Espèces menacées
2001
Theatre Play
An accountant, presumed honest, inadvertently finds 7 million francs in his bag and decides to change his life.

Jack Frost 2: The Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman
2000
as Colonel Hickering
The sheriff and his deputies from the first movie decide to take a vacation in the Caribbean. Their holiday will be short-lived, however, as the thawe...

Oti peite ypourge mou
1999
Writer
A theatrical performance.

Out of Order
1997
Writer
A Minister and the Secretary of the Opposition party go to a 5 star hotel to conduct a secret affair. Their plans are ruined when they discover a corp...

Jack Frost
1997
Thanks
On his way to be executed, the vehicle containing notorious serial killer Jack Frost collides with a hazardous chemical truck, turning him into a snow...

Panique au Plazza
1996
Theatre Play
During a long night session at the parliament a deputy sneaks to meet his mistress in a nearby hotel.

Le vison voyageur
1995
Author

One For the Pot
1993
Writer
Billy is about to become the heir to a millionaire, provided that he is the only living heir. Complications arise quite soon when it turns out that Bi...

Out of Order!
1992
Writer
A labor party leader is having an affair with the opposing party's secretary. Unfortunately for them, there seems to be a corpse in their hotel room j...

Kuta och kör
1992
Writer
Comedy about a cab driver who is a bigamist.

Pappie Hier Ben Ik
1990
Writer

Double mixte
1989
Novel
Wife Begins at 40
1988
George and Linda Harper's 17 year marriage has gone stale, but George doesn't seem to be aware of it. When confronted with the problem, he gets a vase...

Move Over, Mrs. Markham
1988
Writer

C'est encore mieux l'après-midi
1987
Writer

Huwelijk In De Steigers
1986
Writer
Se devi dire una bugia dilla grossa
1986
Author
Palace Hotel, Rome, the story begins with the Demitri couple, who turn out to be in a marital crisis due to their not having sex for quite some time. ...

Goeie Buren
1986
Writer

Move Over, Mrs. Markham
1985
Author
Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country...

There Goes The Bride
1980
Theatre Play, Screenplay
A nervous ad executive creates havoc on his daughter's wedding day and becomes obsessed with a dream girl he keeps seeing everywhere but whom he can't...

Een Kus van een Rus
1980
Writer

Why Not Stay For Breakfast?
1979
Screenplay
The peaceful existence of a New York post-office clerk is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a heavily pregnant girl on his doorstep

Not Now, Comrade
1976
as Mr. Laver
Not Now, Comrade tells the story of Rudi, a Russian ballet star who defects to the West, and the chaos that befalls those who try to help him... not l...

Not Now, Comrade
1976
Director
Not Now, Comrade tells the story of Rudi, a Russian ballet star who defects to the West, and the chaos that befalls those who try to help him... not l...

Not Now Darling
1973
as Arnold Crouch
A married British furrier gives a mobster's mistress a cheap mink coat.

Not Now Darling
1973
Director
A married British furrier gives a mobster's mistress a cheap mink coat.

Nothing Barred
1961
as Policeman (uncredited)
Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture, and...

What a Carve Up!
1961
Screenplay
Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral family home with the rest of his rather ecce...

The Night We Got the Bird
1960
Writer
Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn.

The Hand
1960
as Pollitt
During World War II, a group of British soldiers are captured by the Japanese, tortured and their hands are cut off. Years later, a mad killer terrori...

The Hand
1960
Screenplay, Original Story
During World War II, a group of British soldiers are captured by the Japanese, tortured and their hands are cut off. Years later, a mad killer terrori...

The Guinea Pig
1948
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes tog...

My Brother Jonathan
1948
as Ralph Hingston
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work a...
På ville veier
N/A
Dramaturgy, Writer
The play revolves around a government official who checks into a hotel to meet his mistress, but things quickly spiral into chaos as unexpected visito...