John Mortimer (Estate)

Playwright/Author

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Books

Agent: Robert Kirby
Assistant: Olivia Davies

Film, TV & Theatre

Agent: Anthony Jones
Film, TV & Radio
Associate Agent: Danielle Walker
Agent: Nicki Stoddart
Theatre

Books

Sir John Mortimer was a novelist, playwright and barrister.  The first book featuring his most famous character, Horace Rumpole, was published by Penguin in 1980, and Mortimer went on to publish a dozen collections of Rumpole stories as well as a handful of novels, culminating in 2007 in RUMPOLE MISBEHAVES. He was knighted in 1998 for his services to the arts and died in January 2009.

Fiction

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL

A & C BLACK

Educational Play

Other

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THE SUMMER OF A DOORMOUSE

Penguin

THE SOUND OF TRUMPETS

Penguin

FELIX IN THE UNDERWORLD

Penguin

RUMPOLE AND THE ANGEL OF DEATH

Penguin

RUMPOLE AT CHRISTMAS

2009

Penguin

Collection of Rumpole Christmas stories.

MURDERERS AND OTHER FRIENDS

Penguin

Second volume of autobiography

CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE

Penguin

Won the 1982 Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award.
Autobiography

IN CHARACTER

Penguin

A collection of interviews with the most prominent men and women of our times

RUMPOLE

Penguin

TITMUSS REGAINED

Penguin

RUMPOLE A LA CARTE

Penguin

RUMPOLE ON TRIAL

Penguin

Film, TV & Theatre

John Mortimer was a playwright, novelist and, prior to that, a practising barrister.   During the war he worked for the Crown Film Unit and published a number of novels before turning to the theatre.    He wrote many film scripts and radio and television plays including six plays on the life of Shakespeare for ATV, SHADES OF GREENE for Thames, UNITY MITFORD for BBC, the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel BRIDESHEAD REVISITED for Granada, a television adaptation of his highly-successful stageplay A VOYAGE ROUND MY FATHER for Thames Television, TTHE EBONY TOWER (an adaptation of John Fowles' novel) for Granada, EDWIN for Anglia and an adaptation of his bbest-selling novel PARADISE POSTPONED was produced for television by Euston Films.  His adaptation from his own novel SUMMER'S LEASE was transmitted by the BBC. 

John's adaptation of Feydeau's A FLEA IN HER EAR which premiered at the National Theatre at the Old Vic on 8 February 1966 was revived by The Old Vic Theatre (in association with Sonia Friedman Productions)  in 2010.

Theatre

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A VOYAGE ROUND MY FATHER

WEST END

THE HAIRLESS DIVA

THE PALACE THEATRE WATFORD

FULL HOUSE

THE PALACE THEATRE WATFORD

NAKED JUSTICE

WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE / BIRMINGHAM

HOCK AND SODA WATER

CHICHESTER FESTIVAL THEATRE

A LITTLE HOTEL ON THE SIDE

A VOYAGE ROUND MY FATHER

WEST END

A VOYAGE ROUND MY FATHER

COME AS YOU ARE

THE WRONG SIDE OF THE PARK

THE DOCK BRIEF

SHALL WE TELL CAROLINE

Television

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LOVE AND WAR IN THE APPENINES

McGee Street Productions/Hall of Fame

Calum Blue

DON QUIXOTE

Hallmark/Robert Halmi/Turner

Starring John Lithgow

CIDER WITH ROSIE

Carlton

Adaptation of book by Laurie Lee

RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY

Thames Television

7 x original 6 part series

TITMUSS REGAINED

Thames Television/New Penny Productions

3 part mini-series
Directed by Martyn Friend

SUMMER'S LEASE

BBC

Original 4 part mini-series
Directed by Martyn Friend

PARADISE POSTPONED

Euston Films

Original 6 part mini-series

THE EBONY TOWER

Granada

Adaptation of J Fowles story

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED

Granada

12 hour adaptation of Evelyn Waugh novel
Charles Sturridge/Derek Granger

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

ATV

Original mini series

SHADES OF GREENE

Thames Television

MARRIED ALIVE

LWT

Film

ProductionCompanyNotes

TEA WITH MUSSOLINI

Cattleya Productions

Screenplay
Directed by Franco Zefferelli
with Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Cher

MARY

Clasart Film

Directed by John Goldschmidt

A VOYAGE ROUND MY FATHER

Thames

Script based on original stageplay
with Laurence Olivier, A Rakoff

JOHN AND MARY

Fox

Screenplay
with Dustin Hoffman, Mia Farrow

THE DOCK BRIEF

LUNCH HOUR

Screenplay