John Mortimer, barrister, author, playwright and creator of Horace Rumpole, the cunning defender of the British criminal classes, died Friday at his home in Oxfordshire, England. He was 85. His death ...
What do you do when a lifetime of carefully harbored illusions are stripped away by irrefutable circumstance? If you’re the clueless barrister in John Mortimer’s “The Dock Brief,” now at Pacific ...
Mr. Mortimer was a barrister, author, playwright and the creator of Horace Rumpole, the cunning defender of the British criminal classes. By Helen T. Verongos John Mortimer, who died on Friday at 85, ...
British lawyer and writer John Mortimer, creator of the curmudgeonly criminal lawyer Rumpole of the Bailey, died Friday near London. He was 85. Mortimer combined a career as a lawyer with a large ...
LONDON – British lawyer and writer John Mortimer, creator of the curmudgeonly criminal lawyer Rumpole of the Bailey, died Friday. He was 85. Mortimer's family said he died early in the morning at his ...
At their theatrical best, lawyers are star actors who write their own lines, improvise to meet the occasion and use the courtroom as a stage to declaim on matters of life and death. Sir John Mortimer, ...
LONDON – British lawyer and writer John Mortimer, creator of the curmudgeonly criminal lawyer Rumpole of the Bailey, died Friday. He was 85. Mortimer's family said he died early in the morning at his ...