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Sir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE, QC (21 April 1923 – 16 January 2009) was an English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author.
Mortimer was born in Hampstead, London, the only child of Kathleen May (née Smith) and Clifford Mortimer, a barrister who became blind in 1936, when he hit his head on the door frame of a London taxi, but still pursued his career. His father's loss of sight was not acknowledged openly by the family.
Mortimer was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, and Harrow, where he joined the Communist Party forming a one member cell. Originally Mortimer intended to be an actor, his lead role in the Dragon's 1937 production of Richard II, gained glowing reviews in The Draconian, and then a writer, but his father persuaded him against it advising: "My dear boy, have some consideration for your unfortunate wife ... [the law] gets you out of the house."
At seventeen, he went up to Brasenose College, Oxford where he read law, though he was actually based at Christ Church because the Brasenose buildings had been requisitioned for the war effort. In July 1942, at the end of his second year, Mortimer was asked to leave Oxford by the Dean of Christ Church, after romantic letters to a Bradfield sixth-former, Quentin Edwards, later a QC, were discovered by the young man's housemaster.
Mortimer was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1948, at the age of 25. His early career consisted of testamentary and divorce work, but on taking silk in 1966, he began to undertake work in criminal law. His highest profile, though, came from cases relating to claims of obscenity, which, according to Mortimer, were "alleged to be testing the frontiers of tolerance."
He has sometimes been incorrectly cited as a member in the Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial defence team, though this is inaccurate. Mortimer did however successfully defend publishers John Calder and Marion Boyars in their 1968 appeal against their conviction for publishing Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn. He assumed a similar role three years later, this time unsuccessfully, for Richard Handyside, the English publisher of The Little Red Schoolbook.
Mortimer was also defence counsel at the Oz conspiracy trial later in 1971. In 1976, he defended Gay News editor Denis Lemon (Whitehouse v. Lemon) for the publication of James Kirkup's "The Love that Dares to Speak its Name" against charges of blasphemous libel; Lemon was convicted with a suspended prison sentence, later overturned on appeal. His defence of Virgin Records in the 1977 obscenity hearing for their use of the word bollocks in the title of the Sex Pistols album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, and the manager of the Nottingham branch of the Virgin record shop chain for the record's display in a window and its sale, led to the defendants being found not guilty.
Mortimer retired from the bar in 1984.
Mortimer is best remembered for creating a barrister named Horace Rumpole, inspired by his father Clifford, whose speciality is defending those accused of crime in London's Old Bailey. Mortimer created Rumpole for a BBC Play For Today in 1975. Although not Mortimer's first choice of actor (in an interview on the DVD set, he said he wanted Alistair Sim -- "but he was dead" , Leo McKern played the character with gusto and proved popular; accordingly, the idea was developed into a series Rumpole of the Bailey' for Thames Television, in which McKern again took the lead role. Mortimer also wrote a series of Rumpole books. In September–October 2003, BBC Radio 4 broadcast four new 45-minute Rumpole plays by Mortimer with Timothy West in the title role. Mortimer also dramatised many of the real-life cases of the barrister Edward Marshall-Hall in a radio series featuring former Doctor Who star Tom Baker as the protagonist.
Mortimer was credited with writing the script for Granada Television's 1981 serialization of Brideshead Revisited, based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh. However, Graham Lord's unofficial biography, John Mortimer: The Devil's Advocate, revealed in 2005 that none of Mortimer's submitted scripts had in fact been used and that the screenplay was actually written by the series producer and director. Mortimer adapted John Fowles's The Ebony Tower, starring Laurence Olivier for Granada in 1984.
In 1986, his adaptation of his own novel Paradise Postponed was televised. This depicts what he saw as Britain's descent into viciousness in the era of Thatcherism.
Mortimer also wrote the script, based on the autobiography of Franco Zeffirelli, for the 1999 film Tea with Mussolini, directed by Zeffirelli and starring Joan Plowright, Cher, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Lily Tomlin. From 2004, Mortimer worked as a consultant for the politico-legal US "dramedy" television show Boston Legal.
He developed his career as a dramatist by rising early to write before attending court, and his work in total includes over fifty books, plays, and scripts.
Mortimer married Penelope Fletcher (he was her second husband), later better known as Penelope Mortimer, in 1949 and had a son and a daughter by her, Sally Silverman and Jeremy Mortimer. The unstable marriage inspired work by both writers, of which Penelope's novel, The Pumpkin Eater (1962), later made into the film of the same name, is the best known. The couple divorced in 1971 and he married Penelope Gollop in 1972. They had two daughters, Emily Mortimer, and Rosie Mortimer. He lived with his second wife in the village of Turville Heath in Buckinghamshire. The split with his first wife had been bitter, but they were on friendly terms by the time of her death in 1999.
In September 2004, Graham Lord discovered the existence of a second son, Ross Bentley, conceived during a secret affair Mortimer pursued with the English actress Wendy Craig more than 40 years earlier, and born in November 1961. Craig and Mortimer had met when the actress had been cast playing a pregnant woman in Mortimer's first full-length West End play, The Wrong Side of the Park. Ross Bentley was raised by Craig and her husband, Jack Bentley, the show business writer and musician. In Mortimer's memoirs, Clinging to the Wreckage, he wrote of "enjoying my mid-thirties and all the pleasures which come to a young writer."
Mortimer died on 16 January 2009, aged 85, after a long illness. He had suffered a stroke in October 2008.
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2900338.John_Mortimer |
Rumpole of the Bailey series
John Mortimer - Rumpole Of The Bailey (read by Robert Hardy)
John Mortimer - The Trials Of Rumpole (read by Bill Wallis)
John Mortimer - Rumpole's Return (read by Robert Hardy)
John Mortimer - Rumpole For The Defence (read by Bill Wallis)
John Mortimer - Rumpole And The Golden Thread (read by Bill Wallis)
John Mortimer - Rumpole's Last Case (read by Bill Wallis)
John Mortimer - Rumpole And The Age Of Miracles (read by Patrick Tull)
John Mortimer - Rumpole A La Carte (read by Rob Inglis)
John Mortimer - Rumpole On Trial (read by Timothy West)
John Mortimer - Rumpole And The Angel Of Death (read by Bill Wallis)
John Mortimer - Rumpole Rests His Case (read by Tony Britton)
John Mortimer - Rumpole And The Primrose Path (read by Bill Wallis)
John Mortimer - Rumpole And The Penge Bungalow Murders (read by Bill Wallis)
John Mortimer - Rumpole And The Reign Of Terror (read by Bill Wallis)
John Mortimer - Rumpole Misbehaves (read by Bill Wallis)
John Mortimer - Rumpole At Christmas (read by Bill Wallis)
John Mortimer - The Anti Social Behaviour Of Horace Rumpole (read by Bill Wallis)
Other
John Mortimer - Dunster (read by Martin Jarvis)
John Mortimer - Felix In The Underworld (read by Martin Jarvis)
John Mortimer - Quite Honestly (read by Suzy Aitchison and Toby Longworth)
John Mortimer - Summer's Lease (read by Martin Jarvis)
Code:
Rumpole of the Bailey series
http://rapidgator.net/file/61e094a08a3a9161d6ed866697e905ce/Rumpole_Of_The_Bailey.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/642b035f470ff1a0a27bfd72d458545f/The_Trials_Of_Rumpole.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5ef575e583f88aa97e419bb05c0b75ac/Rumpoles_Return.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9b6653900a88ee7f9804a79b51a1c71e/Rumpole_For_The_Defence.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b82692dd3abd55e6342680c4408ddbf5/Rumpole_And_The_Golden_Thread.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3868893bb630dddb4706ea2ab39e3271/Rumpoles_Last_Case.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/12e04c18724cee4aa0a59ae4d91f14c1/Rumpole_And_The_Age_Of_Miracles.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b31c0646d6215b2e5703ef9ed4928f19/Rumpole_A_La_Carte.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1a3dce45a0cc10b172a4dc1b76c20b12/Rumpole_On_Trial.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/61bdb10e94b9a9657307a03ea117ff17/Rumpole_And_The_Angel_Of_Death.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/415be28f8e0c4945ac2cfd00260954a3/Rumpole_Rests_His_Case.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c9e7c1c67054df1177db82bdf06fd19c/Rumpole_And_The_Primrose_Path.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3932c0e189bdbac6c1990ffd83cdf6e9/Rumpole_And_The_Penge_Bungalow_Murders.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/275d696989ac6609e33fb3d382ee1d0a/Rumpole_And_The_Reign_Of_Terror.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7d62ab490373acec4da5da1ab4906902/Rumpole_Misbehaves.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/196c8bbbe832aa3209a8f31e095efa2b/Rumpole_At_Christmas.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/4900a8eff115254ec2d90716fc381f8f/The_Anti_Social_Behaviour_Of_Horace_Rumpole.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/96e5283b9f9d89f3b72bc2bc6ffb6321/Dunster.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/fd41e09728007e19870694d2dbc16b5d/Felix_In_The_Underworld.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/83d86d14577254397d48c7e486d6bec4/Quite_Honestly.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1d1dadf60ed995aebfda5bcaf20f208f/Summers_Lease.rar.html |
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