A Voyage Round My Father Filming Locations
Where was A Voyage Round My Father filmed? A Voyage Round My Father was filmed in 1 locations across United Kingdom in the following places:
A Voyage Round My Father Filming Locations
Turville is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the Chiltern Hills, 5 miles west of High Wycombe, 6 miles east-southeast of Watlington, 7 miles north of Henley-on-Thames and 2 miles from the Oxfordshire border. The name is Anglo-Saxon in origin and means 'dry field'.
A Voyage Round My Father (1982)
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 Britain. Screen legend Sir Laurence Olivier stars as the eccentric patriarch, a blind barrister so stubborn and cantankerous that he refuses to acknowledge his sightlessness. 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. Adapted for the screen by Mortimer and filmed largely on-location at his family estate in bucolic Oxfordshire, this production garnered multiple awards, including an International Emmy for best drama. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, it captures the special bond between father and son, which at times seems unbearable, but ultimately unbreakable.