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Rumpole of the Bailey

TV's Best Loved Barrister

Created by: John Mortimer

7.0 22

1975

1h

7 seasons

DramaComedyCrime

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.

Seasons

Season 7

Season 6

Season 5

Season 4

Season 3

Season 2

Season 1

Cast

Claude Erskine-Brown, Claude Erskine Brown

Richard Murdoch

Phyllida Trant, Phyllida Erskine-Brown

Samuel Ballard, Q.C., Samuel Ballard Q.C.

Maureen Darbyshire

Peggy Thorpe-Bates

Guthrie Featherstone

Mr. Justice Gerald Graves

Joanna Van Gyseghem

Marigold Featherstone

George Frobisher

Peter Cartwright

Mr Keith, Keith, Wedding Guest

Judge Roger 'The Mad Bull' Bullingham

Figgis 'Fig' Newton

Dodo Mackintosh

William Lawford

Usher, Clerk of the Court

Honoria Bird, Mrs. Thripp

Mr. Grayson, Sir Frank Fawcett

Albert Handyside

Neville Phillips

Edward de Souza

Mr Bernard, Mr. Bernard

Mr Justice Vosper, Mr. Justice Vosper

Detective Inspector Brush

Preston Lockwood

Lord Chancellor

Jennifer Postern

Donald Pickering

Attorney General

Prison Officer,

Uncle Cyril Timson

Mr. Justice Gwent-Evans, Wedding Guest

, Mr. Justice Ollie Oliphant

Major Graham Sykes, Mr Turner

Court Usher, Inspector Clover

Tristan Erskine-Brown

Det. Insp. Bellman

Charles Hearthstoke

Dennis 'Den' Timson

Matron, Marguerite Ballard

Mrs. Ida Tempest

Howard Attfield

Jonathan Mazenze

Elizabeth Hurley

Major Johnnie Pageant

Julian Holloway

Howard Swainton

Isolde Erskine-Brown

Julian Fellowes

Rosemary Tuttle

Margaret Whiting

Jennifer Daniel

Amelia Nettleship

Jonathan Postern

Mr. Justice Skelton

Leslie Phillips

Freddie Allbright

Maurice Roëves

Harold Brittling

Malcolm Sinclair

Elizabeth Adare

Captain Gleason

Peter Royce Williams

Rev. Mordred Skinner

Mr. Justice Twyburne

Dominic Jephcott

Capt. Sandy Ransom

Mrs. Lorraine Lee

Canon Timothy Donkin

Benjamin Whitrow

Patrick Ryecart

Vernon Dobtcheff

Edward Gandolphini

Mr. Perivale Blythe

Christopher Benjamin

Geoffrey Bayldon

Brinsley Lampitt

Caroline Holdaway

Captain Rex Parkin

Tristram Paulett

Det. Sgt. Wilmer

Michael Denison

Denys Hawthorne

Lt. Col. Borders

Philip Bretherton

Hugo Shillingforth

Chrissie Cotterill

Martyn Vanberry

Sir Arthur Remnant

Lt. Col. Mike Watford

Gordon Gostelow

Frank Armstrong

Hugo Lutterworth

Lorraine Frinton

Ramsay Gilderdale

Ian Bartholomew

Mervyn Harmsway

Andrew Robertson

Caroline Mortimer

Connie Coughlin

Constance Chapman

Barbara Derwent

Sylvia Coleridge

Lord Chief Justice

Charles Edwards

Bernard Archard

Det. Inspector Limmeridge

Alex Tetteh-Lartey

Police Lieutenant

Joseph Truscott

Tyler Butterworth

Norman Ettlinger

Richard Albrecht

Mr Justice Everglade

Chief Insp. 'Chalky' White

'Peanuts' Molloy

Sheila Collings

Brigadier Humphries

Det. Sgt. Smedley

Doreen Ingleton

Edward Jewesbury

Police Inspector

Claudia Richards

Louisa Livingston

Michael Scholes

Clerk of the Court

Shorthand Writer

Deborah Fallender

Elizabeth Romilly

Judge Sam Parkin

Janice Crowshott

Prosecuting Counsel

Clifford Parrish

Mrs. Justice Apelby

Archibald McFee

Detective Inspector Dickerson

Charlie Wheeler

Stewart Harwood

Justice Prestcold

Mervyn Twentyman

Dr. Lewis Bleen

Bernard Whelpton

Police Inspector

Hospital Officer

TV Newsreader (voice)

Stephanie Fayerman

Charles Rayford

Police Inspector

Barbara Laurenson

Michael O'Hagan

Clerk of the Court

Francesca Capstick

Detective Constable Hurst

Professor Julius Kramer

Charles Hodgson

Madeleine Christie

Detective Inspector Tebbit

Chief Justice Sir Worthington Banzana

Gyearbuor Asante

Dr. Christopher Mabile

Ewart James Walters

Superintendent Akimbu

Amanda Pinkerton

Christine Waterhouse

Rev. Kenneth Cuazango

Customs Officer

Judge Leonard Dover

Christopher Good

Jeremy Nicholas

Mrs. Marian Hempe

Maurice Fishbourne

Mervyn Harmsway

Anthony Gardner

Archie Featherstone

Det. Sergeant Banks

Det. Insp. Relph

Lesley Nunnerley

Shaughan Seymour

Basil Thorogood

Seamus O'Rourke

Allan Hargreaves

Dr. Maurice Horridge

Det. Con. Marten

Tessa Bell-Briggs

Lt. Col. Hugo Undershaft

Katherine Stark

Leonard O'Malley

Trooper Danny Boyne

Geoffrey Kirkness

Geoffrey Bateman

Captain Betteridge

Christine Garner

Trevor Steedman

Court Attendant

Shorthand Writer

Michael Robbins

Det. Con. Gormley

Gabrielle Blunt

Peregrine Landseer

Michael Latimer

Dick Garsington

William Osborne

Frederick Treves

Sir Christopher Japhet

Hector Vellacott Q.C.

Jill Brassington

Gertrude Donkin

Michael Aitkens

Bernadette Shortt

Cathedral Guide

Felicity Goodeson

Elizabeth Hogan

Wilfred Shadwell

Cindy O'Callaghan

Cynthia Grenville

Ian Chuck Berry

Katharyn Ballantyne

Isolde Erskine-Brown

Richard Cordery

Marcus Griffin Q.C.

Sir Daniel Derwent

Caroline Goodall

Michael Grandage

Helen FitzGerald

Lady Perdita Derwent

Jean Pierre O'Higgins

Terence Conoley

Geoffrey Chater

Dr. Ghulam Rahmat

Sir Hector MacAuliffe