Creator of the television series, Rumpole Of The Bailey Sir John Mortimer has passed away at aged 85.
The writer who also has a daughter, herself an actress, Emily Mortimer, died after a long illness, the BBC reported today.
Mortimer, began his work life as a barrister and became a very prolific author and dramatist.
The last television script he wrote was 2001’s romantic drama In Love And War.
His best-known work was Rumpole Of The Bailey, which starred Leo McKern and ran in the years between 1978 and 1992. He also wrote the 1981 11-part serial Brideshead Revisited and Paradise Postponed.
BBC ‘sAlison Hindell said Mortimer’s death would be a “great loss” to admirers of his “wonderful works”.
Melvyn Bragg, a neighbour of Mortimer in Turville Heath, said: “Life was encircled around that place in Turville and he was the monarch of that.
“We went to pay court to him and, to be honest, you went just to laugh and to hear the latest gossip and the latest book he’d read and ‘what do you think of this and what do you think of that?’
Sir Mortimers wonderful works were known in both UK and USA, and will be missed.
