Here he reads about the life and trials of the eccentric barrister, famous for his inestimable knowledge of blood stains, blood groups and forgery by typewriter. Mortimer was keen on Michael Hordern for the role of Rumpole. Rumpole of the Bailey As the year comes to a close, we present the top TV shows of 2020, including "Money Heist" and "The Mandalorian. Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders, John Mortimer, Penguin Books, 2004, p. 7; this contradicts 'Rumpole and the Barrow Boy' (from the collection, Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders, John Mortimer, Penguin Books, 2004, p. 7. You will love watching every one of the 42 episodes. Play for Today: The Evolution of Television Drama, Irene Shubik, Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 178, 'Rumpole and the Younger Generation', Rumpole of the Bailey, John Mortimer, 1978. The role of Hilda was recast, with Peggy Thorpe-Bates taking on the part. "Pomeroy's" is usually thought to be a stand-in for "Daly's wine bar" (now again "Daly's", having for a while in the 1990s been called by another name), opposite the Royal Courts of Justice in Fleet Street.[3]. The statue of Fortitude and Truth flanking a recording angel above the main entrance was sculptured by. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? The character's name was later changed to Horace Rumpole when it was discovered that there was a real barrister called Horace Rumbold. A&E Home Video released the entire series on DVD in Region 1 between 2004–2006. With Leo McKern, Marion Mathie, Peter Bowles, Joanna Van Gyseghem. In the minds of huge television audiences across the globe, Leo McKern will forever be associated with the role of the cigar-puffing, poetry-spouting, Rumpole of the Bailey. The cases of a portly and eccentric criminal law barrister. In general, in the book series, it would seem that Rumpole has been frozen at an age of around 70 years, and past events in his life have been retconned to fit each story's time frame. Rumpole retired for a short period of time, moving to Florida to be near his son Nick, a sociology professor and now department head at the University of Miami. It starred Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an elderly London barrister who defended a broad variety of clients, often underdogs. The son of Reverend Wilfred Rumpole and his wife Alice, and born at Dulwich,[6][7] Rumpole attended "Linklater's" (a fictional minor public school)[8] and studied law at either Keble College[9] or the fictional "St Joseph's College", Oxford,[10] coming away with "a dubious third" (Oxford then awarded fourths, so a third is equivalent to a 2:2). Horace Rumpole is the essence of being "an Old Bailey Hack". The Sydney-born actor Leo McKern, who played the quick-witted, crumpled-faced TV barrister Rumpole of the Bailey, died last night at a … Use the HTML below. He soon became a regular performer at London's Old Vic theatre and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (now the Royal Shakespeare Theatre) in Stratford-upon-Avon, despite the difficulties posed by his glass eye and Australian accent. Shakespeare). Tributes poured in today for Rumpole of the Bailey actor Leo McKern, who has died at the age of 82. He always defends. Rumpole defends Hilda's nephew, a canon who has accused of adultery in an ecclesiastical court. [29] Shubik moved to Granada Television, where she produced an adaptation of Paul Scott's Staying On and set up, but did not produce, The Jewel in the Crown, the follow-up adaptation of Scott's Raj Quartet. McKern's curmudgeonly barrister was popular in its American run under PBS' "Mystery!" Leo McKern is Horace Rumpole! Witty and cynical as ever, Horace Rumpole will once again delight listeners with his irreverent behavior and legal triumphs. David Callan is the top agent/assassin for the Security Service (British counterintelligence), but he is an embittered man who performs his duties "for Queen and country" under duress. (Note that in the series, George Frobisher was played in a very different style by a different actor). Rumpole of the Bailey made its Thames Television debut on 3 April 1978 in a series of six episodes. 8 / 8 Actor Leo McKern - 'Rumpole of the Bailey' – reads from his memoirs: Rupole and beyond. He loves being in court exchanging banter with a red judge. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Essentially there were two different series and three Christmas specials – yielding a grand total of 40 episodes. Although he sounded very British, Leo McKern was an Australian. The entry for Rumpole of the Bailey says "Mortimer was keen on Michael Hordern for the role of Rumpole, but when Hordern proved unavailable the part went to Australian-born actor Leo McKern." Flawlessly adapted by John Mortimer from his best-selling Edgar Award-winning novels, and starring the esteemed Leo McKern (A Man for All Seasons), this 14-disc DVD Megaset™ includes all 42 episodes from the seven seasons of RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY. In a world drowning in political correctness, Rumpole is a life saver. [13] His associates' dynamic social positions contrast with his relatively static views, which causes feelings between him and the others to shift over time. Horace Rumpole is an "Old Bailey Hack," one of the underpaid barristers who ply the courtrooms of the Old Bailey, London's criminal court. (1978–1992). While certain biographical details are slightly different in the original television series and the subsequent book series, Horace Rumpole has a number of definite character traits that are constant. Here are some of our picks to get you in the spirit. 1988 Press Photo Leo McKern and Patricia Hodge, "Rumpole of the Bailey" This is an original press photo. Often, his investigations reveal more than his client wants him to know. A special two-hour film, Rumpole's Return, was made and aired in 1980, between the 2nd and 3rd series. A devotee of Arthur Quiller-Couch's Oxford Book of English Verse, he often quotes Wordsworth (and other poets less frequently, e.g. In Rumpole and the Fascist Beast it is mentioned that Rumpole was born sometime before the outbreak of World War I. The Timson clan of "minor villains" (primarily thieves) regularly rely on Rumpole to get them out of their latest bit of trouble with the law. Leo McKern ... Horace Rumpole 43 episodes, 1978-1992 Jonathan Coy ... Henry 38 episodes, 1978-1992 Julian Curry ... Claude Erskine-Brown / ... 36 episodes, 1978-1992 Marion Mathie ... Hilda Rumpole 24 … Henry's last name is never spoken aloud by any character, but it can be seen on a poster in the chambers office in a fourth season episode. The play features a character, Leonard Hoskins (played by John Nettleton), a divorce lawyer with a domineering mother, who can be seen as an early prototype of Horace Rumpole. [21] The title of the play was briefly changed to "Jolly Old Jean Jacques Rousseau" before settling on the less esoteric "Rumpole of the Bailey".[21]. His peers sometimes criticise his attire, noting his old hat (a battered Homburg), imperfectly aligned clothes, cigar ash trailing down his waistcoat and faded barrister's wig, "bought second hand from a former Chief Justice of Tonga" (or the Windward Islands: Rumpole is occasionally an unreliable narrator). An elite group of officers tasked with protecting London from spies, terrorists, and subversives. There are also two individual dramas, in 1975 and 1980 (65 minutes and 103 minutes respectively), that aired outside of the regular series but that are considered part of the overall Rumpole television canon. Rumpole's Oxford Book of English Verse is inscribed "Horace Rumpole, Little Wicks School 1923. John Mortimer readily agreed, since it would mean more money, and Shubik (and Rumpole) duly left the BBC in late 1976.[25]. Apart from the legal drama in each story, Rumpole also has to deal with his relationships with family and friends. By the time he was 15 years old, he had endured an accident that left him without his left eye. Being taken for granted by her butterfly collecting dentist husband doesn't help. Directed by Julian Amyes. In the first story, it is called "Mulstead". Rumpole also refuses to prosecute, feeling it more important to defend the accused than to work to imprison them. (The last two terms are particularly derogatory: the subterranean Fleet river, which flows below Farringdon Street in a culvert and crosses under one end of Fleet Street at Ludgate Circus, served as the main sewer of Victorian London,[2] while the Thames Embankment in central London was a reclamation of marshy land that, until the 1860s, was notably polluted). When Rumpole of the Bailey returned for its fourth series in 1987, Marion Mathie took over as Hilda when Peggy Thorpe-Bates retired because of poor health.[31]. Actor Leo McKern, who played the TV barrister Rumpole of the Bailey, has died aged 82. Leo McKern was best known for playing Horace Rumpole in the "Rumpole of the Bailey" series for Thames TV, which began production in 1977 with sequential episodes produced on and off into the 90s. 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