Cast & creator
John Mortimer
Best known for The South Bank Show, Play for Today, The Wednesday Play
Sir John Clifford Mortimer CBE QC FRSL was an English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author. 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 wrote fiction and was a trial attorney for more than 30 years.
38
film credits
29
television credits
13
1935–2013 · acting roles
6.8
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (67)
Showing 67 of 67 credits
The South Bank Show
1978
Play for Today
Writer
1970
The Wednesday Play
Writer
1964
Question Time
Self - Panellist
1979
ITV Playhouse
Writer
1967
Playhouse
Adaptation
1974
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Writer
1965
Rumpole of the Bailey
Writer
1975Rumpole of the Bailey
Creator
1975
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Theatre Play
1955
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Self
1988
Brideshead Revisited
Writer
1981
Theatre Night
Writer
1957The Garden Party
1998
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Writer
1951
One Pair of Eyes
1967
Armchair Theatre
Writer
1956
Will Shakespeare
Writer
1978Will Shakespeare
Creator
1978
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Self
1986
The Innocents
Additional Writing
1961
Shades of Greene
Writer
1975
Bunny Lake Is Missing
Screenplay
1965Plays of Today
Writer
1969
Summer's Lease
Novel
1989Summer's Lease
Screenplay
1989Summer's Lease
Creator
1989
Tea with Mussolini
Screenplay
1999They Met in a City
Writer
1961
The Running Man
Screenplay
1963
John and Mary
Screenplay
1969
Ferry to Hong Kong
Dialogue
1959
Titmuss Regained
Writer
1991
Don Quixote
Writer
2000
Cider with Rosie
Writer
1998
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
Teleplay
1961
Bermondsey
Writer
1972
A Flea in Her Ear
Writer
1968
The Trial of Lady Chatterley
Self
1980
A Voyage Round My Father
Writer
1984
Mill Hill
Writer
1972
Edwin
Writer
1984
Rumpole of the Bailey
Writer
1975Betjeman and Me
2006
Knightsbridge
Writer
1972King's Cross Lunch Hour
Writer
1972
Lunch Hour
Screenplay
1962Lunch Hour
Producer
1962
Under the Hammer
Writer
1994Poslední přestávka
Original Story
1966
Back to Back
Writer
1959
Guns of Darkness
Screenplay
1962
Der Mann aus dem Bootshaus
Novel
1967
Brown on Resolution
1935
Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies
Self (as Sir John Mortimer)
2008
Unity
Script
1981
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
Self
2013
Rumpole's Return
Writer
1980
Infidelity Took Place
Writer
1968
The Dock Brief
Writer
1962
The Ware Case
Youth (uncredited)
1938
Maschenka
Writer
1987
The Dock Brief
Writer
1957
The Encyclopaedist
Writer
1961
Me and Marlborough
Minor Role
1935Paradise Postponed
Writer
1986Das Pflichtmandat
Original Story
1958