John Mortimer

John Mortimer was born on Apr 21, 1923 in UK. John Mortimer's big-screen debut came with Ferry to Hong Kong directed by Lewis Gilbert in 1959. John Mortimer is known for A Voyage Round My Father directed by Alvin Rakoff, Laurence Olivier stars as Clifford Mortimer and Alan Bates as John Mortimer. John Mortimer has got 2 awards and 9 nominations so far. The most recent award John Mortimer achieved is Banff Television Festival. The upcoming new movie John Mortimer plays is In Love and War which will be released on Nov 18, 2001.

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. He also writes fiction and was a trial attorney for more than 30 years. Arguably his most famous creation is Horace Rumpole, "barrister at law, 68 next birthday, Old Bailey hack, husband to Mrs Hilda Rumpole," the protagonist and narrator of dozens of stories. (The quotation comes from Rumpole and the Younger Generation.) On television, Leo McKern personified Rumpole for the better part of two decades.