Rex Mottram, the buccaneering moneyman in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, prefigured Donald Trump by a few generations.

This takes its name, of course, from Rex Mottram, Julia Flyte’s husband in Brideshead Revisited. At one point, Rex decides to convert to Catholicism in order to have a proper Church wedding with ...

11.11.2003 It’s Rex Mottram, only worse He broke the Bank of England. Now he hopes to break the Republican Party. Enter George Soros. George Soros, one of t ...

This takes its name, of course, from Rex Mottram, Julia Flyte’s husband in Brideshead Revisited. At one point, Rex decides to convert to Catholicism in order to have a proper Church wedding with ...

The British stage and screen actor Charles Keating had one of his best television roles as Rex Mottram in Granada’s sumptuous production of Brideshead Revisited, before making a name for himself ...

Even the snobbery on display – when Charles watches Rex Mottram choose the wrong glass from which to drink champagne – still works. His nostalgia for Oxford remains a thing of beauty.

In “Brideshead Revisited” this is where Rex Mottram is sent for Catholic instruction. Discussing papal infallibility, the priest asks Mottram what would happen if the pope said it was going to ...

You know Father Mowbray hit on the truth about Rex at once, that it took me a year of marriage to see. He simply wasn't all there. He wasn't a complete human being at all.

Rather like Rex Mottram, I assumed that papal infallibility was an example of Roman Catholic arrogance and overreaching papal power. Instead, ...

This can be compounded by what I call the Rex Mottram syndrome – named for the character in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. A prospective convert (for the sake of marriage), ...

There is a real danger of becoming too pompous about the implements you drink with, as Charles Ryder discovered in Brideshead Revisited. When the ludicrous, swaggering Rex Mottram takes Charles to ...

Charles Keating, who has died aged 72, was a Shakespearean actor who, on television, specialised in rakes and villains. In Britain he was Rex Mottram, Lady Julia Flyte’s admirer-turned-cheating ...