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John Mortimer: Biography from Answers.com

Contents 1 Early life 2 Early writing career 3 Legal career 4 Later writing career 5 Personal life 6 Death 7 Attributes 8 Bibliography 9 Select screenwriting credits 10 References 11 External links Early life Mortimer was born in Hampstead, London, the only child of Kathleen May (née Smith) and Clifford Mortimer, a barrister[2] who became blind in 1936, when he banged his head on a tree branch,[3] but still pursued his career.
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Legal career Mortimer was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1948, at the age of 25.
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Earlier, he was on the board of the National Theatre from 1968 to 1988.
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This obituary was also carried by The New York Times; a more complete version than the version on the IHT website is online here.
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For the first and, in fact, the only time in my life I was, thanks to Laurie Lee, earning my living entirely as a writer.
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John Mortimer, Barrister and Writer Who Created Rumpole, Dies at ...

He also adapted Evelyn Waugh’s “Brideshead Revisited” for television, years after he became enthralled with the book as a young man.
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The elder Mr. Mortimer, who was known for his anger and harsh tongue, was a barrister who specialized in divorce petitions and wills.
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No one should grow old who isn’t ready to appear ridiculous.” A version of this article appeared in print on January 17, 2009, on page A17 of the New York edition with the headline: John Mortimer, Barrister and Writer Who Created Rumpole, Dies at 85.
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I came to believe in the truth of what I was saying.
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It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing.
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“Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls,” he wrote in “The Summer of a Dormouse: A Year of Growing Old Disgracefully” (2000).
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John Mortimer - Fantastic Fiction

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.
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John Mortimer - Penguin Books Authors - Penguin Books

The relationship actually began with the publication of his first book of Rumpole stories in 1978.
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Instead he’d regale you with the choicest items from the latest issue of Private Eye (usually embellished with a detail known only to John), scornfully describe the witlessness of the Prime Minister or more usually the Home Secretary, or tell you a new joke he’d just heard.
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John, who worked incredibly hard at everything he did, was eager to move on to the next thing: a film script, a radio play, an idea for a new Rumpole.
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And all the while, though he’d given up the law, he continued to write plays and film-scripts.
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Neither would be touched, and the laden plates would be silently removed.
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John loved lunching, and it’s noticeable how often in his interviews or autobiographical writings he refers to the activity, most famously in his remark about the pleasures, when he was still combining the law with the theatre, of breakfasting with a murderer and lunching with an actress.
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John Mortimer | Culture | The Guardian

So how did Emily Mortimer deal with acting in such familiar, familial territory, asks Patrick Barkham Rumpole at Christmas by John Mortimer 19 Dec 2009: Ian Sansom picks a final present Actors, politicians and royalty pay respects to Sir John Mortimer 17 Nov 2009: Celebration of Rumpole creator's life at Southwark Cathedral one year after lawyer and playwright's death John Mortimer on TV Gallery (10 pictures), 4 May 2009: The British Film Institute is this month screening a season of the late Sir John Mortimer's classic TV dramas.
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These stills, from works spanning his career, recall his deft mix of gentle wit and radical thinking John Mortimer's Britain through the years 4 May 2009: Gay soldiers, night flights to Paris and steak suppers in pubs ...
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Petal power: Vincent van Gogh's The Pink Peach Tree The fall of the Roman empire and the rise of Islam Eugene O'Neill, master of American theatre How the League of Gentlemen stars conquered the West End More zeitgeist What is Zeitgeist?
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My ruined village 6 Feb 2000 It is the habit of governments, when they want to interfere in any field of activity, to start by rubbishing those who live through its problems every day.
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Zeitgeist is an experiment in showing trending news, topics and articles from the Guardian.
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Mark Lawson welcomes their revival A Voyage Round My Father 30 Jan 2009: New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeJohn Mortimer's fond tribute to his father could hardly be a finer tribute to himself, says Alfred Hickling Life's deeper mysteries 24 Jan 2009: The irrepressible John Mortimer was working right up until his death last week.
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John Mortimer on Yahoo! Music

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John Mortimer - NNDB: Tracking the entire world

1-Dec-1971)Daughter: Sally SilvermanFather: Clifford MortimerMother: Kathleen May Smith    High School: Harrow School    University: Brasenose College, Oxford University    Scholar: Associate Member, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art    Knighthood 1998    Risk Factors: Smoking Author of books: Charade (1947, novelist)Clinging to the Wreckage (1982, memoir)Summer's Lease (1987, novel)The Sound of Trumpets (1998, novel)Summer of a Dormouse (2001, memoir) Wrote plays: The Dock Brief (1957, radio play)The Wrong Side of the Park (1960)Two Stars for Comfort (1962)The Judge (1967)A Flea in Her Ear (1965, adaptation from Georges Feydeau)A Voyage Round My Father (1970)Paradise Postponed (1985)Summer's Lease (1988) New!
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John Mortimer - 625-Online

Rumpole and the Learned Friends sees Rumpole defending a safe-breaker in 1976, while the season concluded with an episode set in 1977.
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He also adapted the hugely successful Brideshead Revisited for ITV in thirteen episodes in 1981, and John Fowles' The Ebony Tower for Granada in 1984 (notable only for the extensive nude shots of Toyah Wilcox and Greta Scacchi).
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Further series of six episodes followed in 1979 and 1983, with a two-hour special - Rumpole's Return - in 1980.
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Rumpole tells her that he will only continue to represent her if she pleads guilty and she gets three years.
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McKern returned as Rumpole, and while Peggy Thorpe-Bates replaced Joyce Heron as Hilda and was even more fierce, David Yelland played a younger version of their son, Nick, than he had in the BBC play.
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The latter was another legal drama, starring John Nettleton as a fortyish divorce lawyer determined to win his latest case for his female client (Judy Cornwall) and - hopefully - replace her husband himself.
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John Mortimer News - The New York Times

(December 6, 1992) Poorhouses, Pamphlets and Marley's Ghost (December 24, 1993) The Angry Young Man Who Stayed That Way (January 8, 1995) 'The Last Civilized Man on Earth': The Incomparable Max Beerbohm (September 3, 1995) John Mortimer Reviews Margaret Thatcher's 'The Path to Power' (July 9, 1995) Advertise on NYTimes.com MOST POPULARE-MailedBloggedSearchedPuberty Before Age 10: A New ‘Normal’?Op-Ed Columnist: Broccoli and Bad FaithOpinionator: Nature-Deficit DisorderOp-Ed Contributor: The Gated Community MentalityOp-Ed Columnist: A Moderate Conservative DilemmaMovie Review | 'Bully': Behind Every Harassed Child?
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Sir John Mortimer: Writer by choice, lawyer at his father's behest ...

John Mortimer married first, in 1949 (dissolved 1972), Penelope Fletcher, with whom he had a son and a daughter.
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“At last,” Mortimer realised, “I was writing what I had wanted, all my life, to say.” He added another play, What Shall We Tell Caroline?, as a companion piece to Dock Brief, and in 1958 they formed a double bill first at the Lyric, Hammersmith, and then at the Garrick.
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This did not prevent his being fanatically devoted to his herbaceous border.
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Mortimer’s first full-length play in the West End, The Wrong Side of the Park (Cambridge, 1960), was a wry examination of marriage, in which a wife presents an idealised portrait of her first husband to her second husband, whom she bullies; it transpires, nevertheless, that she had been committing adultery with him when she heard of the first husband’s death.
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In Heaven, two Englishmen wake up after an accident in a hospital housed in a Tuscan palazzo, and deduce from the sumptuous fresco on the ceiling that they have arrived in heaven.
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That’s the great thing about the Law, it gets you out of the house.” So, without any great conviction, Mortimer achieved a wartime Law degree at Brasenose College, Oxford.
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John Mortimer: books by John Mortimer @ BookFinder.com

Coauthors & Alternates John Clifford Mortimer Learn More at LibraryThing ›John Mortimerat LibraryThing Results page: 1 2 3 4 5 NEXT Book search ISBN search Textbooks Signed books Textbook buyback Help FAQ Glossary About Our booksellers For the press Media mentions Interact Link to us Send comments Mailing lists Extras ArticlesBlogBookFinder.com ReportPopular authorsISBN list Preferences BookFinder.com • JustBooks.co.uk • JustBooks.de • JustBooks.fr • JustBooks.nl Search for books in...  Dutch  French  German  Italian  Spanish  © 2012 BookFinder.com® | Conditions of use | Privacy policy ,
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John Mortimer - Wikiquote

We wondered why we ever thought there was, during the Cold War, any serious danger of Russia conquering the world when they couldn't even deliver the scenery for The Tempest.
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The barrister's belief or disbelief in the truth of the story is irrelevant: it's for the jury to decide this often difficult question.
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Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Where There's a Will: Thoughts on the Good Life (2003) 2 Unsourced 3 External links [edit] Sourced Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to tolerate, even if we do not approve, the strong Anglo- Saxon, realistic and vivid language?
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A barrister's job is to put the case for the defense as effectively and clearly as would his client if he had an advocate's skills.
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This must be why the government has decided to destroy it.
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In New York, crossing 58th Street from the Plaza Oyster Bar to the Wyndham Hotel, I came up against a huge black man in a long, dark overcoat who said, in deep and threatening tones, "Give me fifty dollars!" I managed to ask him if he would be content with thirty-five and, rather to my surprise, he said, "All right, give me thirty-five dollars!" And so the deal was done.
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