Rod Hall
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, south London, England apartment. In 2005, Osman Durrani 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)
- Juliette Towhidi (wrote Calendar Girls)
- Simon Nye (wrote the television show Men Behaving Badly).
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