Mortimer rumpole6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He also penned the film "Tea With Mussolini." Mortimer was the adaptor-screenwriter of the internationally famous 1981 TV series "Brideshead Revisited," from the novel by Evelyn Waugh. First written as a radio play, it charted his relationship with his blind barrister father. Mortimer's autobiographical 1963 play A Voyage Round My Father was staged in 2006 by the Donmar Warehouse. His beloved barrister character, Rumpole, first emerged in 1975 as a BBC "Play For Today," and was expanded in a series of novels and a hit ITV television series starring Leo McKern. ![]() Mortimer was a barrister whose work helped end the Lord Chamberlain's censorship of stage productions with the 1968 Theatres Act. Mortimer died at his home near Henley, Buckinghamshire, in the company of his second wife, Penny, and daughters Emily and Rosie. ![]()
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