# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-mortimer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:02:13.814Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-mortimer"
name: "John Mortimer"
slug: "john-mortimer"
description: "Sir John Clifford Mortimer was a British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author. He is best known for short stories about a barrister named Horace Rumpole, adapted from episodes of the TV series Rumpole of the Bailey also written by Mortimer."
tagline: "British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author (1923-2009)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/Sir_John_Mortimer.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1923-04-21"
deathDate: "2009-01-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump