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[]

External links[]

• BBC report of Hall's death