Rod Hall
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Roderick Thomas Berringer (Rod) Hall (27 April 1951 – 21 May 2004) was a British literary agent who represented several successful writers.
Having worked for London agency A.P. Watt, he set up his own, the Rod Hall Agency , in 1997.
Hall was found dead, with multiple stab wounds, in his Southwark apartment. In 2005 Usman Durrani, a 22 year old student at Edinburgh University was convicted of Hall's murder and sentenced to life in prison.[1]
Following his death, the films Driving Lessons and Imagine Me & You as well as the stage play Mercury Fur were dedicated to him.
Clients[]
Hall's agency represented more than 60 writers, including:
- Simon Beaufoy (wrote The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire)
- Jeremy Brock (wrote Mrs. Brown)
- Lee Hall (wrote Billy Elliot)
- Liz Lochhead (Scottish poet)
- Martin McDonagh (playwright)
- Philip Ridley (playwright, screenwriter, director)
- Richard Smith (wrote Trauma)
- (wrote Calendar Girls)
- Simon Nye (wrote the television show Men Behaving Badly).
References[]
- ^ "Student gets life for murder of UK literary agent". 8 August 2005.
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Categories:
- 1951 births
- 2004 deaths
- 2004 murders in the United Kingdom
- British murder victims
- Literary agents
- People murdered in London
- 2004 in London