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11 giu 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 father, Clifford ...
John Mortimer. (John Clifford Mortimer) ( 1923 - 2009) JOHN MORTIMER is 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 ...
11 nov 2007 · She vividly recreates the figure of Clifford Mortimer, blinded in an accident when John was about 12, who became the subject of Mortimer's most famous play, A Voyage Round My Father, ...
17 apr 2024 · Sir John Mortimer (born April 21, 1923, Hampstead, London, Eng.—died Jan. 16, 2009, near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, Eng.) 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 ...
John Clifford Mortimer was born in London and educated at Harrow School and Brasenose College, Oxford. As a barrister he has been a notable opponent of censorship. His first play, The Dock Brief, was broadcast on radio and television in 1957 (published 1958). His later writing for television includes the series about Rumpole of the Bailey.
John Clifford Mortimer, the only child of Clifford and Kathleen May Smith Mortimer, was born in Hampstead, London, on April 21, 1923. He was educated at Harrow School (1937-40) and Brasenose College, Oxford (1940-42, BA 1947), and, like his father, he became a barrister in 1948 after serving as a scriptwriter and assistant director for the Crown Film Units during World War II.
John Mortimer. (1923-2009), Barrister, playwright and writer. Sir John Clifford Mortimer. Sitter in 13 portraits. Barrister, playwright and author; his plays have been staged since the 1950s, but reached a peak with the semi-autobiographical A Voyage Round My Father (1970). In 1966 he became a QC; his experiences at the bar proved to be the ...
