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Penelope Mortimer(1918-1999)

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  • Script and Continuity Department
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Penelope Mortimer was born on 19 September 1918 in Rhyl, Flintshire, Wales, UK. She was a writer, known for Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965), The Pumpkin Eater (1964) and A Summer Story (1988). She was married to John Mortimer and Charles Dimont. She died on 19 October 1999 in London, England, UK.
BornSeptember 19, 1918
DiedOctober 19, 1999(81)
BornSeptember 19, 1918
DiedOctober 19, 1999(81)
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  • Awards
    • 1 nomination total

Known for

Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Bunny Lake Is Missing
7.3
  • Writer
  • 1965
Anne Bancroft in The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
The Pumpkin Eater
7.1
  • Writer
  • 1964
Imogen Stubbs and James Wilby in A Summer Story (1988)
A Summer Story
7.2
  • Writer
  • 1988
Portrait of a Marriage (1990)
Portrait of a Marriage
7.6
TV Mini Series
  • Writer

Credits

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Writer

  • Portrait of a Marriage (1990)
    Portrait of a Marriage
    7.6
    TV Mini Series
    • screenplay
    • 1990
  • Imogen Stubbs and James Wilby in A Summer Story (1988)
    A Summer Story
    7.2
    • writer
    • 1988
  • Little Miss Perkins
    TV Movie
    • short story
    • 1982
  • Play for Today (1970)
    Play for Today
    7.8
    TV Series
    • writer
    • 1973
  • Gayle Hunnicutt in Away from It All (1973)
    Away from It All
    TV Series
    • writer
    • 1973
  • Love Story (1963)
    Love Story
    6.9
    TV Series
    • writer
    • 1966
  • Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
    Bunny Lake Is Missing
    7.3
    • screenplay
    • 1965
  • Anne Bancroft in The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
    The Pumpkin Eater
    7.1
    • based on the novel by
    • 1964
  • Jane Asher, Barbara Couper, and Andrew Cruickshank in The Renegade (1961)
    The Renegade
    TV Movie
    • Writer
    • 1961

Script and Continuity Department

  • Death of a Princess (1980)
    Death of a Princess
    7.6
    TV Movie
    • script supervisor
    • 1980

Personal details

  • Born
    • September 19, 1918
    • Rhyl, Flintshire, Wales, UK
  • Died
    • October 19, 1999
    • London, England, UK(cancer)
  • Spouses
      John Mortimer1949 - 1972 (divorced, 2 children)
  • Children
    • Julia Mortimer
  • Other works
    Book: A villa in summer (1976)
  • Publicity listings
    • 2 Print Biographies

Did you know

  • Trivia
    Mother with first husband Charles Dimont of actress Caroline Mortimer (who used her stepfather's surname).
  • Quotes
    [covering the 1970 Cannes Film Festival for a magazine]: What is the point of being a critic at Cannes? I don't honestly know. The good films will be seen in London, anyway; the bad sink without trace. Hours of sitting without a cigarette, possibly dressed for a first night at Covent Garden, starved of food, alcohol or even a Happy Kup, watching a piece of Hungarian symbolism with inadequate French subtitles, is bad, I find, for the judgment.

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