
John Mortimer
Writer · 1923 – 2009 · Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
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.
Movies6
MovieDocumentaryDramaA docudramatisation of the 1960 obscenity trial in the United Kingdom of Penguin Books for publishing D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Movie6.4MysteryDramaAn aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house
The Ware Case
1938 · 5 votes
Movie6.3ActionWarForever 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?
Brown on Resolution
1935 · 8 votes
Movie1.0DocumentaryThe 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.
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
2013 · 2 votes
Movie5.6ComedyRomanceA woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
Me and Marlborough
1935 · 5 votes
Movie5.0DocumentaryA look at the history of British B-movies.
Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies
2008 · 1 votes
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TV5.9NewsTalk ShowThis 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.
Question Time
1979 · 15 votes
TV7.2DramaComedyRuth Patchett has it all: a large, warty body, a standard suburban home, a couple of unruly children, a dog, a cat and a guinea pig. She also has Bobbo, her unfaithful accountant husband who resents her very existence. Bobbo wants, and is wanted by, romance novelist Mary Fisher, who lives in a lighthouse by the sea. When Bobo leaves Ruth for Mary, Ruth decides that Mary doesn't know the first thing about love, and she's gonna teach her.
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
1986 · 10 votes
TV8.0DocumentaryThis 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.
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988 · 1 votes
TV7.0DocumentaryA monthly series of highly personal documentary films in which individuals are given a platform to discuss issues close to their heart.
One Pair of Eyes
1967 · 1 votes