Yahoo India Web Search

Search results

  1. Apr 19, 1984 · A Voyage Round My Father: Directed by Alvin Rakoff. With Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, Jane Asher, Elizabeth Sellars. Before creating the beloved courtroom drama Rumpole of the Bailey (1978), writer John Mortimer found inspiration in his own life for this portrait of a difficult but enduring love between father and son in mid twentieth century ...

    • (232)
    • Drama
    • Alvin Rakoff
    • 1984-04-19
  2. Dec 31, 2015 · A Voyage Round My Father. Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, Elizabeth Sellars and Jane Asher in the 1984 television version of John Mortimer's autobiographical play. ...more. Laurence...

    • 81 min
    • 44.4K
    • FunFillums
  3. A Voyage Round My Father is an autobiographical play by John Mortimer, later adapted for television. The first version of the play appeared as a series of three half-hour sketches for BBC radio in 1963.

  4. Produced by Thames Television for TV with Laurence Olivier as the father, Alan Bates as the son, Elizabeth Sellars as the mother and Jane Asher as Elizabeth. This production was notable for including the blind actor Esmond Knight in a sighted role, as one judge Mortimer senior faces.

  5. A British writer (Alan Bates) recalls his eccentric blind father (Laurence Olivier), a prominent barrister.

    • Alvin Rakoff
    • Drama
  6. Sir Alan Bates (Gosford Park (2001)) portrays his devoted son, who follows his father's footsteps in the law while longing to become a writer, with Jane Asher (Brideshead Revisited (1981)) as his wife.

  7. People also ask

  8. A Voyage Round My Father. Starring Laurence Olivier, this humorous, heartwarming drama from the creator of Rumpole of the Bailey portrays the difficult but enduring love between father and son. 34 IMDb 7.2 1 h 20 min 1984. X-Ray 13+.