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.
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
Release Date1935-07-22
Charactersd Minor Role
Vote Count3
An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house
Release Date1938-12-02
Charactersd Youth (uncredited)
Vote Count3
A look at the history of British B-movies.
Release Date2008-06-21
Charactersd Himself (as Sir John Mortimer)
Vote Count1
This topical debate series based on Any Questions? typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by a carefully selected audience.
Release Date1979-09-25
Charactersd Self - Panellist
Episode Count1
Vote Count13
This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf.
Release Date1988-01-10
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his many films, to reveal the fascinating life of one of the great writers of the twentieth century.
Release Date2013-01-01
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
A docudramatisation of the 1960 obscenity trial in the United Kingdom of Penguin Books for publishing D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Release Date1980-10-25
Charactersd Self
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Release Date1970-10-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count9
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Release Date1974-03-13
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Release Date1955-10-02
DepartmentWriting
JobTheatre Play
Episode Count1
Vote Count235
Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several years between the two world wars.
Release Date1981-10-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count11
Vote Count68
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Release Date1951-12-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.
Release Date1975-12-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count41
Vote Count17
Biography of William Shakespeare.
Release Date1978-06-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Molly Pargeter is a forty-something wife and mother of three girls, who leads a stable but dull life in 1980s West London. She feels overweight and there is no passion in her relationship with her husband Hugh, who is secretly seeing another woman. For most of her life she has found escape in detective novels and books on art, especially about the fifteenth century Italian fresco painter Piero Della Francesca. Then in a newspaper's small ads Molly sees the details of a villa in Tuscany, Italy to let and after travelling to Italy to view the villa "La Felicita" she decides to take it for the family's August holiday.
Release Date1989-11-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count4
Vote Count6
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
Release Date1961-12-15
DepartmentCrew
JobAdditional Writing
Vote Count619
Shades of Greene is a British television series based on short stories written by the author Graham Greene. The series began in 1975, with each hour-long episode featuring a dramatisation of one of Greene's stories, many of which dealt with issues such as guilt and the Catholic faith, as well as looking at life in general. Actors to have appeared in the series include John Gielgud, Leo McKern, Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, and Roy Kinnear. The series began on 9 September 1975 and ran for two seasons.
Release Date1975-09-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
Release Date1965-10-03
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count191
An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an insurance investigator.
Release Date1963-10-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count43
In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate Mary Wallace. Mary and her cultured friends - including artist Arabella, young widow Elsa, and archaeologist Georgie - keep a watchful eye over the boy. But the women's cultivated lives take a dramatic turn when Allied forces declare war on Mussolini.
Release Date1999-03-25
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count148
Adapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry novels, who loses his sanity and believing to be a knight named Don Quixote de La Mancha, decides to go on imaginary adventures along with his friend, the simple farmer Sancho Panza, who becomes his squire. On their journeys, they rescue dames in distress in honorable acts and fight giants among other perils, with Don longing to be with the love of his life, lady Dulcinea, and Sancho waiting to be rewarded with an island where he's about to become a governor.
Release Date2000-04-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count32
Will Shakespeare, also known as Life of Shakespeare and William Shakespeare: His Life & Times, was a 1978 historical drama series created and written by John Mortimer. Broadcast in six parts, the series is a dramatisation of the life and times of the great poet William Shakespeare played by Tim Curry, and was co-produced by Lew Grade's ATV and RAI and distributed internationally by ITC. The two production companies had collaborated successfully before on Jesus of Nazareth the previous year.
Release Date1978-06-13
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count1
Leslie Titmuss returns to Rapstone village and will do whatever it takes to fit in with the highest levels of society. Married to his second wife, Jenny, he seeks to buy his first wife's country house. These plans are hampered by a real estate development that Leslie, due to his free market politics, can hardly oppose publicly.
Release Date1991-09-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.
Release Date1969-12-14
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count33
This adaptation of Laurie Lee's autobiographical novel follows a young man's maturation in the country town of Gloucestershire near the end of World War I. As young Laurie comes of age under the protective eye of his mother, he learns to live with an eccentric collection of friends, neighbours, and relatives. As he enters his teenage years, Laurie discovers women.
Release Date1998-12-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count7
Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on the Fa Tsan, a ferry owned by Captain Hart. Conrad's papers are out of order and Macao refuses him entry. Unable to go ashore, Conrad is a permanent passenger on the ferry with Hart, who detests him. It's all one long, lazy voyage for Conrad until one fateful trip when an encounter with a typhoon and pirates forces Conrad to choose between an aimless drifter's life and becoming a man again.
Release Date1959-10-29
DepartmentWriting
JobDialogue
Vote Count13
Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife to the edge of despair. It turns them into outlaws and fugitives, hunted by a vicious South American regime; yet it could also bring them together in a way they have never been before.
Release Date1962-07-19
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count11
A young female designer is on the brink of an affair with a married male executive at the company where she works. The film tells the story of their illicit lunch hour rendezvous.
Release Date1962-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count8
Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act.
Release Date1968-11-27
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count5
Film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's debut novel, 'Mary'.
Release Date1987-03-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves to end years of suspicion about his wife's fidelity and the true paternity of their son.
Release Date1984-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
A successful lawyer struck with blindness in middle age continues his battles in the courtroom with the assistance of his family. As his son deals with bitter memories of their relationship, he also seeks his father's respect and love and in the process learns to love in return.
Release Date1984-04-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count5
After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big chance, Wilfred Morgenhall is given the case of defending Herbert Fowle who is accused of murdering his wife. Despite Fowle's insistence of guilt, Moregenhall will not let go of the opportunity to plead his client as innocent and be a star in the courtroom.
Release Date1962-09-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count12
John Mortimer's play about the tangled love life of an East London pub landlord.
Release Date1972-06-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail for passing bad checks. Though the man has promised to change, most of her strait-laced relatives are up in arms. But Clare Lester, Helen's grandmother, says the girl is free to join the man she loves. On one condition, that she listen to the story of a day in Clare's own life and of a man she tried to change.
Release Date1961-03-20
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Attractive Julia Swinton is a middle-aged woman. Her life went normally and without big occurrences. But through the unexplained death of a familiar young lady in a houseboat and the sudden appearance of a strange stranger, unrest and threat now break into the seemingly so peaceful everyday life of the Swinton family. As it soon turns out, Mr. Swinton has a secret relationship with the lady on the boathouse...
Release Date1967-04-06
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Period Drama. The true story of Unity Mitford who in the 1930's went to live in Germany and was friends with Adolf Hitler.
Release Date1981-03-20
DepartmentCrew
JobScript
An irreverent barrister chooses to defend a young Jamaican boy accused of stabbing on the same day his only son leaves for college in America.
Release Date1975-12-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
This hilarious one-act play by John Mortimer (creator of Rumpole of the Bailey) is the story of a highly incompetent lawyer preparing to defend a man who, by his own admission, is guilty of murdering his wife. Starring Sir Michael Hordern (Gandhi, How I Won the War), two-time Tony winner George Rose (My Fair Lady), and Leueen MacGrath (who with George S. Kaufman co-wrote Silk Stockings).
Release Date1957-09-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A clergyman noted for his support of left-wing causes, leaves his considerable estate to a Conservative member of parliament. Adaptation of the novel by John Mortimer.
Release Date1986-06-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
A young salesman from Trinidad tries to sell a complete set of encyclopedia to Sally Louth, a housewife living on the Chelsea-Fulham border in London.
Release Date1961-04-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
German adaptation of The Dock Brief
Release Date1958-07-24
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
These dueling one-act comedies highlight the work of playwright John Mortimer. In "The Dock Brief," an ill-prepared attorney is put to the test when his client confesses to killing his wife. In "What Shall We Tell Caroline?" a father with good intentions tries to protect his wife and daughter from the bad things in life.
Release Date1959-11-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A bored Rumpole, living in Florida retirement, uses an inquiry from Phyllida as a pretext to re-establish himself back in chambers.
Release Date1980-12-30
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count10
Release Date1966-01-17
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Release Date1998-07-11
Episode Count1
Release Date2006-08-14
Episode Count1
Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the Royal Navy during the First World War. There his bravery and marksmanship keeps a German ship in port so a British ship can sink it. He becomes a hero, but at what cost?
Release Date1935-05-15
Vote Count6
