John Mortimer (1923-2009), Barrister, playwright and writer
Sir John Clifford Mortimer
Sitter in 9 portraits
Barrister, playwright and author; his plays have been staged since the 1950s, but reached a peak with the semi-autobiographical A Voyage Round My Father (1970). Televised novels include Paradise Postponed (1985) and Summer's Lease (1988). Best-known of his many television adaptations is the Rumpole of the Bailey series (first broadcast 1978).
Playwrights (John Mortimer; Norman Frederick Simpson; Harold Pinter)
by John Hedgecoe
bromide print, 1960
NPG P781
by Tai-Shan Schierenberg
oil on canvas, 1992
NPG 6160
by Mark Gerson
modern bromide print, January 1961
NPG x88309
by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 8 July 1969
NPG x165953
by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 8 July 1969
NPG x165954
Penelope Ruth Mortimer (née Fletcher); John Mortimer
by Mark Gerson
bromide print, January 1961
NPG x17972
Penelope Ruth Mortimer; Sir John Clifford Mortimer
by Mark Gerson, for Camera Press
vintage print, 1961
NPG x184098
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