The First Rumpole Omnibus: Rumpole of the Bailey/The Trials of Rumpole/Rumpole's Return

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Mortimer has created a wonderful character in Rumpole: a terrific sarcastic wit; irreverent and unconventional; quotes poetry in an ironic manner; negligent in his dress; doesn’t take himself or life too seriously. And yet, Rumpole is scrupulously serious when he defends his clients, who are usually career petty criminals who may or may not actually be guilty of the crime for which they have been accused. It is this integrity that makes him a likeable curmudgeon. Vahimagi, Tise. "Irene Shubik (1935–)". Screenonline. British Film Institute . Retrieved 17 April 2007. Mortimer's play A Voyage Round My Father, first broadcast on radio in 1963, is autobiographical, recounting his experiences as a young barrister and his relations with his blind father. It was televised by BBC Television in 1969 with Mark Dignam in the title role. In a lengthier version, the play became a stage success – first at Greenwich Theatre with Dignam, then in 1971 at the Theatre Royal Haymarket with Alec Guinness). In 1981 it was remade by Thames Television with Laurence Olivier as the father and Alan Bates as young Mortimer. In 1965, he and his wife wrote the screenplay for the Otto Preminger film Bunny Lake is Missing, which also starred Olivier. [ citation needed] Legal career [ edit ]

Rumpole of the Bailey is a series of books created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer based on the television series Rumpole of the Bailey. [1] Published in United States as John Mortimer. The Secret Lives of Rumpole's Creator (New York, Thomas Dunne Books, 2006) The Summer of a Dormouse: A Year of Growing Old Disgracefully (autobiography), Viking Penguin, London (2000); ISBN 0-670-89106-1; Viking Press, New York (2001); ISBN 0-670-89986-0 Thou Shalt Not Kill: Father Brown, Father Dowling And Other Ecclesiastical Sleuths (1992) (with G K Chesterton and Ralph McInerny)Speaking of television, it's my understanding that this series began as television, and then was turned to book form, which is not a process that normally leads to spectacular writing, despite my early fondness for Earthquake, The Fantastic Voyage, or, in a sense, Peter Pan and Wendy. So kudos for Mr. Mortimer in doing a brilliant job of translating from one medium to another. So much of the impact of this story is predicated on the goings-on inside of Rumpole's head, I can hardly imagine what the show would have been like without it. (Or maybe they used voiceover for his hidden thoughts--I should find out. I'd probably like it!) Play for Today: The Evolution of Television Drama, Irene Shubik, Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 178 Mr Bernard ( Edward de Souza) (Series 1); ( Denis Lill) (Series 3–7): An instructing solicitor who frequently presents Rumpole with clients – often a hapless member of the Timson clan. Known to Rumpole as "Bonny Bernard".

Angelini, Sergio. "Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–83, 87–92)". Screenonline . Retrieved 16 April 2007. Contains all six short stories in the 1978 collection "Rumpole of the Bailey"; all six short stories in the 1979 collection "The Trials of Rumpole" and the 1980 single-story novel "Rumpole's Return" Hilarious brain candy guaranteed to take you away from the worries of the workaday world for a blissful all-too-short few hours. Highly recommended.

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Peter "Peanuts" Molloy ( David Squire) (Series 1, Episode1; Series 4, Episode 6; Series 5, Episode 4): Member of the Molloy family, archrivals of the Timsons. This legume-lover has frequent run-ins with the law. Also known to date April Timson, wife of Tony Timson. Fans of the novel find the shift in time to be an interesting change to the series. They liked the way that terrorism is the subject that is being talked about. It helps to make the novel even more entertaining, and it makes some of the other characters feel tension and stress as a talking point that he can work into his story. There is a twisting and turning plot that keeps the story moving and the readers guessing what will happen next. Some found that the way that Mortimer talks of the legal system was interesting, and was not bogged down in details. T.C. Rowley, widely known as "Uncle Tom" ( Richard Murdoch) (Series 1–6 and Special). "The oldest member of Chambers, who has not had a brief as long as any of us can remember." Rumpole first joined C. H. Wystan's chambers as Uncle Tom's pupil. [15] He is usually seen happily practising his golf putting in the clerk's room, or offering cheerfully inappropriate comments in Chambers' meetings. Tony Lacey. "John Mortimer and Penguin". Penguin Books. Archived from the original on 8 June 2009 . Retrieved 10 November 2010. The son of Reverend Wilfred Rumpole and his wife Alice, and born at Dulwich, [5] [6] Rumpole attended "Linklater's" (a fictional minor public school) [7] and studied law at either Keble College [8] or the fictional "St Joseph's College", Oxford, [9] coming away with "a dubious third" (Oxford then awarded fourths, so a third is equivalent to a 2:2). Rumpole was called to the bar at the "Outer Temple" (a fictional Inn of Court, named on the analogy of the Inner Temple, where John Mortimer was called, and the Middle Temple).

Awarded a CBE in 1986, he was made a knight bachelor in the 1998 Birthday Honours. [27] Death [ edit ]Mr Justice Oliver Oliphant ( James Grout) (Series 6–7): A judge whose affectations of Northern bluntness and "common sense" drive Rumpole to distraction and disdain. He has sometimes been cited wrongly as one of the Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial defence team. [15] He did, however, successfully defend publishers John Calder and Marion Boyars in a 1968 appeal against a conviction for publishing Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn. [7] He assumed a similar role three years later, this time unsuccessfully, for Richard Handyside, the English publisher of The Little Red Schoolbook. [7] Daily Telegraph Obituaries (16 January 2009). "Sir John Mortimer: QC who took on liberal causes but found most fame as the creator of the fictional barrister Rumpole". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 6 September 2012. Dot Clapton ( Camille Coduri) (Series 7): The new Chambers secretary after Diane leaves. A friendly chatterbox, especially in contrast to the quiet Diane.