Rumpole of the Bailey
TV's Best Loved Barrister
Created by John Mortimer
On ITV1
A warmly comic legal procedural centered on an affable, principled aging barrister whose cases are vehicles for character and wit rather than suspense.
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.
Essence
Ensemble
Leo McKern
Horace Rumpole
Jonathan Coy
Henry
Marion Mathie
Hilda Rumpole
Peggy Thorpe-Bates
Hilda Rumpole
Julian Curry
Claude Erskine-Brown
Robin Bailey
Mr. Justice Gerald Graves
Richard Murdoch
Uncle Tom
Denys Graham
Hoskins
Abigail McKern
Liz Probert
Bill Fraser
Judge Roger 'The Mad Bull' Bullingham
Patricia Hodge
Phyllida Trant
Peter Blythe
Samuel Ballard Q.C.
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