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, The Taste of Too Much, a 'rite of passage' novel about a secondary schoolboy, often seen as semi auto-biographical, 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 the script for 'Between the Lines', which was described by Mary Whitehouse, campaigner, as the filthiest programme she had seen on TV.

Father of the artist, with whom he shares a name as well as a birth-date.

Cliff Hanley 1948- Artist and musician, born Glasgow, using as media acrylic, oil, lithography and wood engraving. Cliff Hanley, writer, was his father, and David Hanley, cameraman, his uncle. Hanley attended Glasgow School of Art, 1966-72, teachers including William Bone and Geoff Squires. Hanley said that by the time he finished there he was "utterly sick of art." He started his first band halfway through art school, and after leaving "spent about 15 years concentrating on rock, but most of the money came from design, letterheads to interiors. Those discos and pubs we designed were like nothing else … A little bit of journalism, a sci-fi strip, but it was my rock band that got me to London." In 1984 Hanley suffered a brain haemorrhage, which affected his left hand, and after recuperating in 1986 he was urged to paint again. Hanley became most famous for his many paintings and lithographs of fleeting glimpses of people in cars, prompted by an experience in Toronto in 1986; for him they were "protagonists in modern-day icons". Hanley was a member of National Artists' Association. Mixed shows included Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1988; South Bank Picture Show, 1991; Workers Against Racism, The Edge Gallery, 1993; ArtExpo, Jacob Javits Center, New York, 1995; and New Year Show at St Thomas' Hospital, which holds his work, 1996. [RUH and Frenchay Hospitals also hold his work] There were further ones at Bath Society of Artists Open from 2000; RWA from 2001; and RBSA, 2005. Later solo exhibitions included The Gallery, Gabriel's Wharf, and Whiteley's Atrium, both 1996, the latter being a retrospective; Laughter II, Bath Society Meeting room, Bath, 1999; The Life of Stuff, CentreSpace Gallery, Bristol 2002; The New Gallery, RWA, 2004; and Medium Medium, Rainbow Restaurant in Bristol, where he had earlier moved from London, 2005. Entry in 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' edited by David Buckman, published by Art Dictionaries Ltd., 81g Pembroke Road Bristol BS8 3EA 2006