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Sir John Clifford Mortimer CBE QC FRSL (21 April 1923 – 16 January 2009) was a British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author. He is best known for short stories about a barrister named Horace Rumpole , adapted from episodes of the TV series Rumpole of the Bailey also written by Mortimer.
- Penelope Fletcher (1949–1971; divorced), Penelope Gollop (1972–2009; his death)
17 de abr. de 2024 · Sir John Mortimer was an English barrister and writer who wrote plays for the stage, television, radio, and motion pictures, as well as novels and autobiographical works. Mortimer was educated at Harrow and at Brasenose College, Oxford, and began writing before he was called to the bar in 1948.
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June 11, 2008. A Voyage Round John Mortimer By Valerie Grove Illustrated. 542 pages. Viking. $27.95. Sir John Mortimer, 85 this year, once worried that he was merely "repeating" the life of his ...
16 de ene. de 2009 · Two autobiographies, Clinging to the Wreckage (1982) and Murderers and Other Friends (1994) speak of a life anchored in family, yet lived in a daily dramatic jumble of court cases, plays and ...
17 de ene. de 2009 · John Mortimer, barrister, author, playwright and creator of Horace Rumpole, the cunning defender of the British criminal classes, died on Friday at his home in Oxfordshire, England. He was...
Sir John Mortimer, who died at 85 on Jan. 16, ... The autobiographical A Voyage Round My Father starred Alec Guinness on a West End stage and Laurence Olivier on TV.
16 de ene. de 2009 · John Clifford Mortimer was a novelist, playwright and former practising barrister. Among his many publications are several volumes of Rumpole stories and a trilogy of political novels, Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained and The Sound of Trumpets, featuring Leslie Titmuss - a character as brilliant as Rumpole.
