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Jan 1, 2001 · 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.
The only child of a highly literate and eccentric barrister and his wife, John Mortimer was born into a life of literature and the law. After Mortimer’s birth in April, 1923, he was raised in his parents’ flat in the Inner Temple in London and later the Chiltern Hills, in a hom...
A successful barrister whose courtroom experiences informed his most enduring character, Mortimer created Rumpole of the Bailey who enjoyed popularity on television between 1978 and 1992. Among his other works was his skilful adaptation of Brideshead Revisited (1981), the autobiographical A Voyage Round My Father (1982) and Paradise Postponed (1986). - Read John Mortimer's Guardian Obituary ...
Oct 30, 2012 · John Mortimer was the author of fourteen other Rumpole books, many of which formed the basis for the PBS-TV series Rumpole of the Bailey.The first book featuring his most famous character, Horace Rumpole, was published by Penguin in 1980.
Jan 18, 2009 · John Mortimer, a British lawyer and writer who created the character Horace Rumpole, a disheveled barrister memorably featured in the popular television series "Rumpole of the Bailey," died Jan. 16...
Jan 17, 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.
John Mortimer. Writer: Bunny Lake Is Missing. John Mortimer was a prolific writer for the theatre, films (starting during World War II, when he wrote scripts for the Crown Film Unit), television and radio.
