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Rumpole of the Bailey(1975)

TV's Best Loved Barrister

  • TV show
  • December 17, 1975
  • 60 min per episode
  • TV-PG
  • 7 seasons
  • 42 episodes
  • Ended
  • Last aired: December 3, 1992
  • Drama, Comedy, Crime
7.1TMDB · 24 votes
8.4IMDb

Created by: John Mortimer

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.

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Cast

  • Leo McKern

    Leo McKern

    Horace Rumpole

  • Jonathan Coy

    Jonathan Coy

    Henry

  • Julian Curry

    Julian Curry

    Claude Erskine-Brown

  • Marion Mathie

    Marion Mathie

    Hilda Rumpole

  • Richard Murdoch

    Richard Murdoch

    Uncle Tom

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    Maureen Darbyshire

    Dianne

  • Peter Blythe

    Peter Blythe

    Samuel Ballard Q.C.

  • Patricia Hodge

    Patricia Hodge

    Phyllida Erskine-Brown

  • Peggy Thorpe-Bates

    Peggy Thorpe-Bates

    Hilda Rumpole

  • Peter Bowles

    Peter Bowles

    Guthrie Featherstone

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