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pos: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) from the Soviet Union, which is in turn being traded with the CIA for American intelligence. Smiley is enlisted by Cabinet Office civil servant Oliver Lacon to investigate a claim by Ricki Tarr, a British spy, that for years there has been a mole in a senior role in the Circus, a suspicion that Control had held too, but had not shared with Smiley. Smiley chooses a trustworthy agent, Peter Guillam, and retired Special Branch officer Mendel to help him. He interviews former Circus analyst Connie Sachs, who was sacked by Alleline after she deduced that Alexei Polyakov, a Soviet

pos: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) from the Soviet Union, which is in turn being traded with the CIA for American intelligence. Smiley is enlisted by Cabinet Office civil servant Oliver Lacon to investigate a claim by Ricki Tarr, a British spy, that for years there has been a mole in a senior role in the Circus, a suspicion that Control had held too, but had not shared with Smiley. Smiley chooses a trustworthy agent, Peter Guillam, and retired Special Branch officer Mendel to help him. He interviews former Circus analyst Connie Sachs, who was sacked by Alleline after she deduced that Alexei Polyakov, a Soviet

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1974 spy novel by British author John le Carré. It follows the endeavors of taciturn, aging spymaster George Smiley to uncover a Soviet mole in the British Secret Intelligence Service. Since the time of its publication, the novel has received critical acclaim for its complex social commentary and lack of sensationalism, and remains a staple of the spy fiction genre. When "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" came out in 1974, revelations exposing the presence of Soviet double agents in Britain were still fresh in public memory. Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (miniseries) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (miniseries) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1979 seven-part drama spy miniseries made by BBC TV. John Irvin directed and Jonathan Powell produced this adaptation of John le Carré's novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (1974). The mini-series, which stars Alec Guinness, Alexander Knox, Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston, Anthony Bate, Ian Bannen, George Sewell and Michael Aldridge, was shown in the United Kingdom from 10 September to 22 October 1979 and in the United States beginning on 29 September 1980. In the United States, syndicated broadcasts and DVD releases compressed the seven UK episodes into six, by

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (miniseries) the original (“If I were going to keep one filmed version of my work, this would be it.”) and referring to Guinness's performance. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (miniseries) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1979 seven-part drama spy miniseries made by BBC TV. John Irvin directed and Jonathan Powell produced this adaptation of John le Carré's novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (1974). The mini-series, which stars Alec Guinness, Alexander Knox, Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston, Anthony Bate, Ian Bannen, George Sewell and Michael Aldridge, was shown in the United Kingdom from 10 September to 22 October 1979 and in the United

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy names with the intention that should his agent Jim Prideaux uncover information about the identity of the mole, Prideaux can relay it back to the Circus using a simple, easy-to-recall codename. The names are derived from the English children's rhyme "Tinker, Tailor":<poem>Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggarman, thief.</poem> Alleline was "Tinker", Haydon was "Tailor", Bland was "Soldier", Toby Esterhase was "Poor Man", and George Smiley was "Beggarman" ("sailor" was not used due to its similar sound to "tailor".) "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" employs spy jargon which is presented as the authentic insider-speak of British Intelligence. Le Carré

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as George Smiley. The film also starred Colin Firth as Bill Haydon, Benedict Cumberbatch as Peter Guillam, Tom Hardy as Ricki Tarr, and Mark Strong as Jim Prideaux. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1974 spy novel by British author John le Carré. It follows the endeavors of taciturn, aging spymaster George Smiley to uncover a Soviet mole in the British Secret Intelligence Service. Since the time of its publication, the novel has received critical acclaim for its complex social commentary and lack of sensationalism, and remains a staple of the spy fiction genre. When "Tinker

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) "There is a script, but I don't know when we will shoot." Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 Cold War spy thriller film directed by Tomas Alfredson. The screenplay was written by Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan, based on John le Carré's 1974 novel of the same name. The film, starring Gary Oldman as George Smiley, along with Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Ciarán Hinds, and featuring David Dencik, is set in London in the early 1970s and follows the hunt for a Soviet double agent

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 Cold War spy thriller film directed by Tomas Alfredson. The screenplay was written by Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan, based on John le Carré's 1974 novel of the same name. The film, starring Gary Oldman as George Smiley, along with Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Ciarán Hinds, and featuring David Dencik, is set in London in the early 1970s and follows the hunt for a Soviet double agent at the top of the British secret service. The film was produced

neg: Toby Esterhase by the Hungarian emigre and book publisher André Deutsch: Bernard Hepton played Esterhase in the BBC television dramatisations of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "Smiley's People". In the former, Hepton played Esterhase as a typical Englishman with a standard English accent, but in "Smiley's People", Hepton adopted a more Eastern European accent for the role. Charles Kay played Esterhase in the BBC radio dramatisations of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "Smiley's People". David Dencik played Esterhase in the 2011 film version of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". Dencik's Esterhase spoke with a subtle but difficult-to-place Eastern European accent. The details of

neg: George Smiley be seen on a secretary's computer screen. Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse performed a sketch in 2012 about there being two George Smileys: a reference to the vastly different portrayals in the filmed versions of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". George Smiley George Smiley OBE is a fictional character created by John le Carré. Smiley is a career intelligence officer with "The Circus", the British overseas intelligence agency. He is a central character in the novels "Call for the Dead", "A Murder of Quality", "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "The Honourable Schoolboy", and "Smiley's People", and a supporting character in "The Spy

neg: Connie Sachs of "Smiley's People" which followed it, Sachs was played by Beryl Reid. In BBC Radio 4's 2009-10 adaptation of the Karla trilogy, Sachs was played by Maggie Steed. In the 2011 film adaptation "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", Sachs was played by Kathy Burke. Connie Sachs Connie Sachs is a fictional character created by John le Carré. Sachs plays a key supporting role in the Karla Trilogy, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "The Honourable Schoolboy", and "Smiley's People". Sachs is an eccentric alcoholic with an incredible memory and intellect who works in the research department of the Circus. According to legend, Control

neg: The Professionals (TV series) popular TV comedy series "The Two Ronnies", Ronnie Corbett played a bungling version of Martin Shaw's Doyle in a sketch called "Tinker Tailor Smiley Doyle" (Series 11; broadcast February 1985 - March 1985). This was a joint send-up of "The Professionals" and the "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" TV drama, with Ronnie Barker playing George Smiley along the lines of Alec Guinness' portrayal in "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy". Corbett's Doyle provides the brawn to the brains of Barker's Smiley and actually comes out the worse. The sketch guest-starred Frank Williams from "Dad's Army". In 1984 some of the team behind "The

neg: Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy among many viewers. It has been cited as "most entertaining episode of the season to date, and a Voyager classic." Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy" is the 124th episode of the science fiction television series "", the fourth episode of the . The title is a parody of the famous 1974 novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". The Doctor asks Captain Kathryn Janeway to alter his program to allow him to captain the ship if an emergency occurs. Janeway refuses the request. Despite this, the Doctor alters his own sub-routines, allowing him to daydream, while "Voyager" is traveling

neg: Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy" is the 124th episode of the science fiction television series "", the fourth episode of the . The title is a parody of the famous 1974 novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". The Doctor asks Captain Kathryn Janeway to alter his program to allow him to captain the ship if an emergency occurs. Janeway refuses the request. Despite this, the Doctor alters his own sub-routines, allowing him to daydream, while "Voyager" is traveling through an apparently harmless nebula. Among other ego-fulfilling fantasies, the daydreams include one where he becomes the "Emergency Command Hologram"

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has noted that with the exception of a few terms like "mole" and "legend" this jargon was his own invention. In some cases, terms used in the novel have subsequently entered espionage parlance. For instance, the terms "mole", implying a long-term spy, and "honey trap", implying a ploy in which an attractive person lures another into revealing information, were first introduced in this novel, and have only subsequently entered general usage. The television adaptation of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" also uses the term "burrower" for a researcher recruited from a university, a term taken from the novel's immediate sequel "The

neg: Karla (character) that he recruited. Karla is the central antagonist in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "The Honourable Schoolboy", and "Smiley's People", three novels which were later published as a single omnibus edition entitled "Smiley Versus Karla" or "The Quest for Karla" in the US. In the BBC's television adaptations of both "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "Smiley's People", Karla is played by British actor Patrick Stewart. Karla is only seen briefly in one scene in each production and does not speak. Much of Karla's history is unconfirmed rumour, passed by Smiley to his protégé Peter Guillam. Among the rumours are: that his

neg: Peter Guillam idle officer," while Guillam says of Burr, "Bloody man seems to expect me to work in my sleep." Guillam is replaced by Ned, the protagonist of the novel. Guillam is the protagonist and narrator of the events described in "A Legacy of Spies". In the 1979 BBC miniseries of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", Peter Guillam was portrayed by Michael Jayston. In 1982, the BBC adapted "Smiley's People" into a miniseries, in which Michael Byrne played Guillam. In BBC Radio's 2009/10 adaptation of the novel, Guillam was played by Ewan Bailey. In the 2011 film version of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy",

neg: George Smiley in or out of the Service he is able to maintain an extensive range of aides and support-staff, extending even to "retired" police officers, former and present Service members. In "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", le Carré wrote that his wife describes him as "a reptile that can regulate his body temperature". Gary Oldman, in an interview with Charlie Rose promoting the film adaptation of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", said that this description is "the key" to Smiley. In March 2010, while giving a talk on his life and works at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, le Carré responded to a question

neg: Karla (character) Rem Krassilnikov, whose obituary in the "New York Times" stated that his CIA opponents viewed him as a real-life Karla. Karla appears briefly in the BBC adaptations of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "Smiley's People", though he does not speak in either. He is played by Patrick Stewart. Karla appears briefly in the 2011 film adaptation of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" as a voice, provided by Michael Sarne, as well as in a partial shot in a Budapest coffee shop holding Smiley's lighter. Karla (character) Karla is a recurring character in the works of John le Carré. A Soviet Intelligence

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Honourable Schoolboy". In a review for "The New York Times" written upon the novel's release in 1974, critic Richard Locke called "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" "fluently written", noting that "it is full of vivid character sketches of secret agents and bureaucrats from all levels of British society, and the dialogue catches their voices well." He praised the novel's realism, calling the detailing of "the day to day activities of the intelligence service at home and abroad" convincing. He noted that the "scale and complexity of this novel are much greater than in any of Le Carré's previous books", while the

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy a department store. In 1979 a TV adaptation of the same name was made by the BBC. It was a seven-part miniseries and was released in September of that year. The series was directed by John Irvin, produced by Jonathan Powell, and starred Alec Guinness as George Smiley. In the US, syndicated broadcasts and DVD releases compressed the seven-part UK episodes into six, by shortening scenes and altering the narrative sequence. In 1988, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a dramatisation, by Rene Basilico, of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" in seven weekly half-hour episodes, produced by John Fawcett-Wilson. It is available as

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy pseudonym John le Carré, worked as an intelligence officer for MI5 and MI6 (SIS) in the 1950s and early 1960s. Senior SIS officer Kim Philby's defection to the USSR in 1963, and the consequent compromising of British agents, was a factor in the 1964 termination of Cornwell's intelligence career. In the novel, the character of Bill Haydon, with his easy charm and strong social connections, bears a close resemblance to Philby. "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" was followed by "The Honourable Schoolboy" in 1977 and "Smiley's People" in 1979. The three novels together make up the "Karla Trilogy", named after Smiley's

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) through the British company Working Title Films and financed by France's StudioCanal. It premiered in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. A critical and commercial success, it was the highest-grossing film at the British box office for three consecutive weeks. It won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. The film also received three Academy Awards nominations: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and for Oldman, Best Actor. The novel had previously been adapted into the award-winning BBC TV miniseries "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (1979) with Alec Guinness playing the lead role of Smiley. In October 1973, "Control",

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) with writer Straughan and director Alfredson on developing a sequel to "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". Fellner did not specify whether or not the sequel would be based on "The Honourable Schoolboy" or "Smiley's People", the two remaining Smiley novels in Le Carré's Karla trilogy. While doing press for "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" in 2014, Oldman stated that talk of a sequel, an adaptation of "Smiley's People", had since disappeared; while also stressing that he would still like to see the film produced. However, in July 2016 Oldman confirmed that the sequel was in its early stages, stating,

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) Focus Features. Focus planned to give the film a wide release in the United States on 9 December 2011 but pushed it to January 2012, when it was given an 800 screen release. "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" received generally positive reviews. The film scored 83% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 220 reviews, with an average rating of 7.8/10. The site's summary called the film "a dense puzzle of anxiety, paranoia, and espionage that director Tomas Alfredson pieces together with utmost skill". Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating in the 0–100 range based on reviews from top mainstream critics, calculated an

neg: The Danish Girl (film) a new draft.In September 2009, Tomas Alfredson revealed to "Variety" that production on the project would precede that of his upcoming "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" adaptation, adding: "We have been in talks for close to a year, and we are soon going into production". In December 2009, Swedish newspapers reported that Alfredson was no longer attached to direct "The Danish Girl" and would begin work on "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" next. Alfredson said he regretted that reports of him working on "The Danish Girl" spread before the deal was finalized. He also said that he still wanted to make the

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy a BBC audiobook in CD and audio cassette formats. Notably, Bernard Hepton portrays George Smiley. Nine years earlier, he had portrayed Toby Esterhase in the television adaptation. In 2009, BBC Radio 4 also broadcast new dramatizations, by Shaun McKenna, of the eight George Smiley novels by John le Carré, featuring Simon Russell Beale as Smiley. "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" was broadcast as three one-hour episodes, from Sunday 29 November to Sunday 13 December 2009 in BBC Radio 4's Classic Serial slot. The producer was Steven Canny. The series was repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra, June/July 2016 and has since

neg: Dublin Film Critics' Circle Awards 2011 "Between the Canals" 10. "Parked" 1. Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive 2. "Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life" 3. "Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan" 4. "Tomas Alfredson, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" 5. "Lars von Trier, Melancholia" 6. "Martin Scorsese, Hugo" 7. "David Michod, Animal Kingdom" 8. "Joel and Ethan Coen, True Grit" 9. "Lynne Ramsay, We Need to Talk About Kevin" 10. "Takeshi Miike, 13 Assassins" 1. Ryan Gosling, Drive 2. "Michael Shannon, Take Shelter" 3. "Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" 4. "Colin Firth, The King's Speech" 5. "Nick Nolte, Warrior" 6. "Brendan Gleeson, The Guard" 7. "Aidan Gillen, Treacle Jr"

neg: Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy was shifted around and rewritten to become a story involving the Doctor. The premise is based on the short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber in which Walter Mitty daydreams heroic adventures while running an errand for his wife. The title of this episode is a reference to the 1974 spy novel "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" by John le Carré. Writer Joe Menosky describes the episode as "five days of scriptwriting paradise" because "the story itself becomes your friend and collaborator; it is rich enough to support you and keep feeding you ideas as you execute

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) pages for that night have been cut out, supporting Tarr's story. Smiley discovers that Prideaux is alive, having been exchanged with the Soviets after a period of brutal interrogation, and is living a life of solitude as a school teacher. Smiley interviews Prideaux, who reveals that the true purpose of the mission to Hungary was to get the name of the mole. Control had codenamed the suspects "Tinker" (Alleline), "Tailor" (Haydon), "Soldier" (Bland), "Poorman" (Esterhase), and "Beggarman" (Smiley). Smiley learns that Alleline, Haydon, Bland, and Esterhase have been meeting Polyakov—the "Witchcraft" source—at a safe house somewhere in London, where Polyakov

neg: John le Carré asked him to name a "Best of le Carré" list of books; the novelist answered: "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold", "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "The Tailor of Panama" and "The Constant Gardener". In September 2010, le Carré was interviewed at his house in Cornwall by the journalist Jon Snow for Channel 4 News. The conversation involved several topics: his writing career generally and processes adopted for writing (specifically about his latest book, "Our Kind of Traitor", involving Russia and its current global influences, financial and political); his SIS career, discussing why – both personally and more generally

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy long-time nemesis Karla, the head of Soviet foreign intelligence. These were later published as an omnibus edition titled "Smiley Versus Karla" in 1982. These are the fifth, sixth, and seventh le Carré spy novels featuring George Smiley (The first four being: "Call for the Dead", "A Murder of Quality", "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold", and "The Looking Glass War"). Two of the characters, Peter Guillam and Inspector Mendel, first appeared in le Carré's first book, "Call for the Dead" (1961). It is 1973, the height of the Cold War. George Smiley, former senior official of Britain's Secret

neg: Bill Haydon Bill Haydon Bill Haydon is a fictional character created by John le Carré who features in le Carré's 1974 novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". He is a senior officer in the British Secret Intelligence Service who serves as a Soviet mole. The novel follows aging spymaster George Smiley's endeavours to uncover the mole. The character is partly modelled after the real-life double agent Kim Philby, part of the notorious Cambridge Five spy ring in Britain, who defected to the USSR in 1963. Haydon was born around 1917; no specific year is given but he is known to have been an

neg: Bill Haydon 4 series, "The Complete Smiley", he was portrayed by Michael Feast. Bill Haydon Bill Haydon is a fictional character created by John le Carré who features in le Carré's 1974 novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". He is a senior officer in the British Secret Intelligence Service who serves as a Soviet mole. The novel follows aging spymaster George Smiley's endeavours to uncover the mole. The character is partly modelled after the real-life double agent Kim Philby, part of the notorious Cambridge Five spy ring in Britain, who defected to the USSR in 1963. Haydon was born around 1917; no specific

neg: Markus Wolf on 9 November 2006. John le Carré's fictional spymaster Karla, a Russian, who appears in "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", "The Honourable Schoolboy" and "Smiley's People" was believed by some readers to be modeled on Wolf. However, the writer has repeatedly denied it, and did so once again when interviewed on the occasion of Wolf's death. Le Carré has also stated that it is "sheer nonsense" to claim that Wolf was the inspiration for the character Fiedler in "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold". Although Fiedler is a German Jew who spent World War II in exile and then

neg: George Smiley Collins and Saul Enderby, who are able to use even a great success to force him into retirement. Also unlike Bond he is not a bed-hopper; in fact it is Smiley's wife Ann who is notorious for her affairs. When "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" was published, the reviewer of "The Spectator" described Smiley as a "brilliant spy and totally inadequate man." However, Smiley has his pride, and in the end, in "Smiley's People", he refuses to take the beautiful Ann back, despite her pleadings. Smiley is depicted as an exceptionally skilled spymaster, gifted with a prodigious memory and a talent

neg: Control (fictional character) Control (fictional character) Control is a fictional character created by John le Carré. Control is an intelligence officer who acts as the head of "The Circus" (Cambridge Circus, London), the British overseas intelligence agency. He is a character in the novels "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold", "The Looking Glass War" and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", and is referred to in several others, usually by association with le Carré's recurring protagonist George Smiley, who has served as Control's right-hand man. "Control" is a "nom de guerre"; the character's real name is never given, and it is suggested that

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neg: Control (fictional character) to identify this mole, before falling into a trap set up by Karla to accelerate his departure. Control (fictional character) Control is a fictional character created by John le Carré. Control is an intelligence officer who acts as the head of "The Circus" (Cambridge Circus, London), the British overseas intelligence agency. He is a character in the novels "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold", "The Looking Glass War" and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", and is referred to in several others, usually by association with le Carré's recurring protagonist George Smiley, who has served as Control's right-hand man. "Control"

neg: The Honourable Schoolboy The Honourable Schoolboy The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) is a spy novel by John le Carré. George Smiley must reconstruct an intelligence service in order to run a successful offensive espionage operation to save the service from being dismantled by the government. In 1977, the book won the Gold Dagger award for the best crime novel of the year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. "The Honourable Schoolboy" is the second novel in the omnibus titled either "Smiley Versus Karla" or "The Quest for Karla". This is the sixth le Carré spy novel featuring George Smiley. "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy",

neg: Smiley's People development by Working Title in 2017. Smiley's People Smiley's People is a spy novel by John le Carré, published in 1979. Featuring British master-spy George Smiley, it is the third and final novel of the "Karla Trilogy", following "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "The Honourable Schoolboy". George Smiley is called out of retirement to investigate the death of one of his old agents: a former Soviet general, the head of an Estonian émigré organisation based in London. Smiley learns the general had discovered information that will lead to a final confrontation with Smiley's nemesis, the Soviet spymaster Karla. The character

neg: Smiley's People Smiley's People Smiley's People is a spy novel by John le Carré, published in 1979. Featuring British master-spy George Smiley, it is the third and final novel of the "Karla Trilogy", following "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "The Honourable Schoolboy". George Smiley is called out of retirement to investigate the death of one of his old agents: a former Soviet general, the head of an Estonian émigré organisation based in London. Smiley learns the general had discovered information that will lead to a final confrontation with Smiley's nemesis, the Soviet spymaster Karla. The character General Vladimir was partly modelled on

neg: George Smiley George Smiley George Smiley OBE is a fictional character created by John le Carré. Smiley is a career intelligence officer with "The Circus", the British overseas intelligence agency. He is a central character in the novels "Call for the Dead", "A Murder of Quality", "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "The Honourable Schoolboy", and "Smiley's People", and a supporting character in "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold", "The Looking Glass War", "The Secret Pilgrim" and "A Legacy of Spies". Le Carré created Smiley as an intentional foil to James Bond, a character whom he believed depicted an inaccurate and damaging

neg: Charles Cumming novel, "The Spanish Game" (2006), marks the return of anti-hero Alec Milius, who becomes involved in a plot by the paramilitary Basque nationalist organization ETA to bring down the Spanish government. "The Spanish Game" was described by "The Times" as one of the six finest spy novels of all time, alongside "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "Funeral in Berlin" and "The Scarlet Pimpernel". "Typhoon", published in the UK in 2008, is a political thriller about a CIA plot to destabilise China on the eve of the Beijing Olympics. The story spans the decade from the transfer of the sovereignty of Hong

neg: Peter Guillam private investigation, relying on Guillam to provide him inside information pertinent to the case. He appears again in a minor role in "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold", again in the role of Smiley's assistant. Guillam is a major character in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", which retcons the chronology of "Call for the Dead" to make Guillam only forty in 1973. At the outset of the book, the failure of a major operation called "Testify" has resulted in Smiley and the former head of the Circus, Control, being fired. Guillam survives the purge of personnel loyal to Smiley,

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (miniseries) (Hywel Bennett), a British agent gone missing in Portugal, turns up in England with new evidence backing up Control's theory whilst not identifying the mole. Control had narrowed the list of suspects to five men – Roy Bland, Toby Esterhase, Bill Haydon, Percy Alleline, and George Smiley – all of whom occupied high positions in the Circus. Knowing the Soviet spy is highly placed in the Circus, the British cannot trust the Circus to uncover its own mole or even to let its leaders know of the investigation; Smiley, who had been ousted along with Control while Control's other four

neg: Toby Esterhase Toby Esterhase Toby Esterhase is a fictional character who appears in several of John le Carré's spy novels that feature George Smiley, including "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "The Honourable Schoolboy," "Smiley's People", and "The Secret Pilgrim". Esterhase also makes a cameo appearance in Le Carré's "A Legacy of Spies". Esterhase is an intelligence agent in "The Circus," le Carre's fictionalized version of MI6. He is the head of the Lamplighters, the section of The Circus responsible for surveillance and wiretapping. Hungarian by birth, Esterhase is an anglophile with pretensions of being a British gentleman. He is the Circus' resident ne'er-do-well,

neg: John le Carré uses cunning and manipulation to achieve his ends, as an accurate depiction of a spy. A departure from the use of the Cold War as a backdrop in this era is the spy novel "The Little Drummer Girl" (1983), which is set against the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", "The Honourable Schoolboy", and "Smiley's People" (The Karla trilogy) brought Smiley back as the central figure in a sprawling espionage saga depicting his efforts first to root out a mole in the Circus and then entrap his Soviet rival and counterpart, code named "Karla." The trilogy was originally meant to

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (miniseries) shortening scenes and altering the narrative sequence. In the UK original, George Smiley visits Connie Sachs "before" Peter Guillam's burglary of the Circus; the US version reverses the sequence of these events, in line with the time sequence of the novel. George Smiley (Guinness), deputy head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, is forced into retirement in the wake of Operation Testify, a failed spy mission to Czechoslovakia. Veteran British agent Jim Prideaux (Bannen) had been sent to meet a Czech general, having been told the general had information identifying a deep-cover Soviet spy planted in the highest echelons of

neg: George Pravda Saint"; "The Baron"; "The Prisoner"; "Special Branch"; "Department S"; "Callan"; "Softly, Softly"; "Doctor Who" (in the serials "The Enemy of the World", "The Mutants" and "The Deadly Assassin"); "Doomwatch"; "Codename"; "Public Eye"; "Spy Trap"; "Moonbase 3"; "Colditz"; "QB VII"; "I, Claudius"; "The Duchess of Duke Street"; "1990"; "The Professionals"; "The Onedin Line"; "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"; "Chessgame" and "Bulman". His wife Hana Maria was an actress. George Pravda George Pravda (19 June 1916 Prague − 1 May 1985 London) was a Czechoslovak theatre, film and television actor. He began his career in Czechoslovakia, where he was credited as Jiří Pravda,

neg: Michael Jayston following year he took the role of Mr Rochester in a BBC adaptation of "Jane Eyre", opposite Sorcha Cusack. He made two appearances in the anthology series "Thriller" in 1974, and in 1975 played Quiller, a spy who never used a gun, in the British TV series of the same name. He appeared as Dornford Yates' gentleman hero Jonathan Mansel in the 1977 BBC adaptation of "She Fell Among Thieves". In 1979, he played Peter Guillam opposite Alec Guinness in the series "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". Jayston played Neville Badger in the 1989 television adaptation of David Nobbs's comedy of

neg: Roger Squires From 1964 to 1977 he made over 250 appearances on TV as a comedy magician (26 Rolf Harris Shows (BBC1), five "Crackerjacks" (BBC1), and "ATV Today"); as an actor, playing for three months in the weekday "Crossroads" (ITV) as Amy Turtle's nephew Harold Bracket, and roles in "Doctor Who", "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "Licking Hitler", "Spy Trap" and "War and Peace", plus films including "The Beauty Jungle"; and as a contestant ("Countdown", "Crosswits" (twice), "Catchword", and captained the Wolverhampton teams in both the IQ programme "Pencil & Paper" (ITV) and "Crossword on Two" (BBC2). He was featured talking about crosswords

neg: George Smiley to my writing career." In the popular TV comedy series "The Two Ronnies", Ronnie Barker played Smiley along the lines of Alec Guinness' portrayal in a sketch called "Tinker Tailor Smiley Doyle". This was a joint send-up of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "The Professionals" TV series, with Ronnie Corbett playing a bungling version of Martin Shaw's Doyle. Barker's Smiley provides the brains to the brawn of Corbett's Doyle and actually comes out the better. He is shown as something of an obsessive tea drinker. The sketch guest-starred Frank Williams from "Dad's Army". The name of Smiley's enemy Karla can

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) le Carré admirer James Parker favourably contrasted Smiley with the James Bond franchise but found this "Tinker Tailor" adaptation "problematic" compared to the 1979 BBC mini-series. He wrote: "To strip down or minimalize le Carré, however, is to sacrifice the almost Tolkienesque grain and depth of his created world: the decades-long backstory, the lingo, the arcana, the liturgical repetitions of names and functions". The film topped the British box office chart for three consecutive weeks and earned $80,630,608 worldwide. While doing press for Working Title's "Les Misérables" film adaptation, producer Eric Fellner stated that fellow producer Tim Bevan was working

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (miniseries) to a real spy to aid him in preparing for his role. Le Carré invited Guinness to dinner with Sir Maurice Oldfield, who served as Chief of the British Intelligence Service from 1973–1978. During their meal, Guinness intently studied Oldfield for any mannerisms or quirks that he could use in his performance. When he saw Oldfield run his finger around the rim of his wine glass, he asked whether Oldfield was checking for poison—much to Oldfield's astonishment, as he was only checking how clean the glass was. The series was shot on location in Glasgow; at Oxford University in Oxfordshire,

neg: Tina Tailor Soldier Spy Tina Tailor Soldier Spy "Tina Tailor Soldier Spy" is the seventh episode of the fifth season of the animated comedy series "Bob's Burgers" and the overall 74th episode, and is written by Holly Schlesinger and directed by Don MacKinnon. It aired on Fox in the United States on December 14, 2014. Tina decides to quit her Thundergirls troop, Troop 119, after feeling that her troop does not care for her adherence to the older Thundergirl manual. However, her former troop leader, Ginny, recruits her to return to the troop as a spy. She needs Tina to help her figure out

neg: Sherry Frasier and Niles, the brothers Crane, frequently consume sherry on the TV sitcom "Frasier". Sherry, and Amontillado specifically, is heavily featured in season 3, episode 10 of "Monty Python's Flying Circus". Sherry is frequently mentioned in the novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and plays an important role in the narrative: The spy Jim Prideaux is alerted to the presence of a double agent within his division when Russian KGB agents are able to correctly identify the brand of sherry that was consumed during a secret meeting of MI6 personnel. In "Arrietty", bottles of wine can be seen in Aunt Jessica's

neg: Smiley's People (miniseries) Smiley's People (miniseries) Smiley’s People is a 1982 drama miniseries in six parts, made for the BBC. Directed by Simon Langton, produced by Jonathan Powell, it is the television adaptation of the 1979 spy novel "Smiley's People" by John le Carré, and the sequel to "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". Starring Alec Guinness, Michael Byrne, Anthony Bate and Bernard Hepton, it was first shown in the United Kingdom from 20 September to 22 October 1982, and in the United States beginning on 25 October 1982. George Smiley is called out of retirement when one of his former assets, an émigré general,

neg: Mike Sarne "Success Is the Best Revenge" (1984) for Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski and the Hercule Poirot film "Appointment with Death" (1988). He also played an SS captain in the TV miniseries "War and Remembrance" (1988). He later appeared in "The Fourth Angel" (2001), as Valery in the crime thriller "Eastern Promises" (2007), as a stage manager in "" (2008), and in 2011 he was the voice of Karla in the spy film "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". In 2012, he played Father Mabeuf in the film of "Les Misérables". Films he has directed include "Joanna" (1968) and "Myra Breckinridge" (1970), an adaptation

neg: Lamplighter been installed by English Heritage. In Waikiki, Hawaii, lamplighters in traditional Hawaiian costumes run along the shore and light gas torches in the evening. Frank Serpico, an NYPD whistleblower, prefers to use the term "lamp-lighter" to describe the whistleblower's role as a watchman. "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", a spy novel written by John le Carré, refers to Lamplighters as a section of British Intelligence that provided surveillance and couriers Lamplighter's Serenade is a song written by Hoagy Carmichael. It was recorded by Frank Sinatra during his first session as a solo artist, on 19 January 1942. Bing Crosby also recorded

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy spy partly for political reasons, partly in frustration at Britain's rapidly declining influence on the world stage. He is expected to be exchanged with the Soviet Union for several of the agents he betrayed, but is killed shortly before he is due to leave England. Although the identity of his killer is not explicitly revealed, it is strongly implied to be Prideaux. Smiley is appointed temporary head of the Circus to deal with the fallout. Control, chief of the Circus, suspects one of the five senior intelligence officers at the Circus to be a long-standing Soviet mole and assigns code

neg: La Mer (song) final scene. It also is played in the last episode of "White Collar" named Aú Revoir started on a record player by Mozzie and then it plays over Neal Caffrey cracking a safe and Neal Caffrey walking through the streets of Paris. The song is sung in the French documentary film "Blood of the Beasts" (1949). Julio Iglesias' 1976 live recording is used instead of dialogue and other sounds (including a gun shot) during the last three and a half minutes of the 2011 British spy-film "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", directed by Tomas Alfredson. The film and the song both

neg: George Smiley and Alleline, Haydon, Esterhase, and Bland on the other. When Control is eased out of the Circus in late 1972 after the capture of agent Jim Prideaux in Czechoslovakia, Smiley too is forced out. The Circus is taken over by Alleline, with Haydon running "London Station", a branch overseeing all of the service's spy networks. Guillam remains in the Circus as Smiley's sole resource/ally, albeit in a greatly diminished position. In September or October 1973, the events of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" take place, with Smiley successfully managing to expose Haydon as the long-term Soviet agent, or "mole", codenamed "Gerald"

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy investigation progressing in an undetected manner, is deemed an "intellectual stretch". John Powers of NPR has called it the greatest spy story ever told, noting that it "offers the seductive fantasy of entering a secret world, one imagined with alluring richness". Le Carre himself believes the novel to be among his best works. In the book, Sarratt is a Circus facility, containing a training school for British spies and a holding centre for persons undergoing debriefing or interrogation or in quarantine. This is a reference to an actual village near Watford in which le Carre worked as a teenager in

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) question – and one le Carré himself asked when the film was announced – is whether such a hefty novel can fit comfortably into a feature-length production. In answering this, the writers have pared things back, meaning it's far pacier than the seven-part TV show. Unfortunately, the plot is every bit as bewildering with an overload of spy-speak, a few too many characters to keep track of and a final act that ends with a whimper, rather than a bang." "The Telegraph"s Guy Stagg, meanwhile, thought that the movie needed a car chase in the middle. Writing in "The Atlantic",

neg: The Nearly Man Alan Grint and John Irvin. Arthur Hopcraft was a well-respected UK scriptwriter known for his adaptations of TV plays and novels. He won the BAFTA writer's award in 1985, and is best known for TV miniseries including "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (1979), "Bleak House" (1985), "A Perfect Spy" (1987) and "A Tale of Two Cities" (1989). The Nearly Man The Nearly Man is a UK TV play and series from the mid-1970s, about a middle-class Labour MP. Both play and series were written by Arthur Hopcraft; actors in the cast of both include Tony Britton in the title role, Wilfred

neg: Charles Trenet Holiday". A Julio Iglesias version plays in the final scene of the 2011 spy film, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". The song was also used in the opening credits of the 2007 film, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly", which used the song to highlight the paralysing effects of a stroke that felled his fellow Frenchman, Jean-Dominique Bauby. Both Trenet songs "La Mer" and "Vous qui Passez sans me Voir" were featured prominently in Henry Jaglom's 1971 "A Safe Place". It was also used as the opening title song in Steve Martin's "L.A. Story" in 1991. Other Trenet songs were recorded

neg: Toby Jones Express". In 2011, he played the role of the British spy master Percy Alleline in the adaptation of John Le Carré's "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and Arnim Zola in "", a role which he reprised in the sequel "" three years later as well as in a cameo in the TV series "Agent Carter" the following year. In 2012, he had a leading role in the ITV mini-series "Titanic", starred as one of the seven dwarves in "Snow White and the Huntsman", played Dr. Paul Shackleton in "Red Lights," and Max in "Virginia". He also portrayed film director Alfred Hitchcock

neg: Douglas Urbanski as an actor he was featured in David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin's Academy Award winning motion picture "The Social Network", playing the role of Larry Summers, for which he received personal acclaim and shared the Hollywood Ensemble Acting Award from the Hollywood Film Festival, and also the Ensemble Acting Award from the Palm Springs International Film Festival, shared with Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, and Justin Timberlake. In 2010/11 executive produced the film version of John le Carré's "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", which stars Gary Oldman as master spy George Smiley, and also features Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Benedict Cumberbatch, John

neg: Gary Oldman with Denzel Washington in "The Book of Eli". He also played a lead role in Catherine Hardwicke's "Red Riding Hood". Oldman voiced the role of villain Lord Shen and was nominated for an Annie Award for his performance in "Kung Fu Panda 2". Oldman received strong reviews and earned his first Academy Award nomination and a BAFTA Award nomination for his portrayal of British spy George Smiley in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (2011), an adaptation of the John le Carré novel, directed by Tomas Alfredson. To prepare for the role of George Smiley, Oldman gained 15 pounds, watched Alec Guinness'

neg: Clare Douglas of the film's editing. Douglas' later BAFTA television nomination was for editing "The Lost Prince" (2003), which was written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff; "The Lost Prince" won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries. Much earlier, Douglas had been nominated twice as best editor for two miniseries based on John le Carré's espionage novels "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" (directed by John Irvin-1979) and "Smiley's People", (1982) which was directed by Simon Langton. Douglas also edited a third miniseries based on le Carré's novel "A Perfect Spy" (1987). Douglas died on 9 July 2017, aged 73. Director indicated in parenthesis.

neg: Tina Tailor Soldier Spy 10, calling it the least funny episode of the season. However, he noted that, "What tonight’s edition lost in spit-take inducing gags and one-liners, it made up for with a nicely silly plot, and an opportunity to see Tina doing something other than rhapsodizing about boys and horses." The episode received a 1.3 rating and was watched by a total of 2.54 million people. This made it the fourth most watched show on Fox that night, behind "Brooklyn Nine-Nine", "Family Guy", and "The Simpsons". Tina Tailor Soldier Spy "Tina Tailor Soldier Spy" is the seventh episode of the fifth season

neg: Daniel Alfredson In" and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy") and the son of Hasse Alfredson. Daniel Alfredson Hans Daniel Björn Alfredson (born 23 May 1959 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish film director who is best known for directing film versions of two parts of the "Millennium Trilogy": "The Girl Who Played with Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest". At the 29th Guldbagge Awards he won the award for Best Screenplay and was nominated for Best Director for the film "The Man on the Balcony". His latest film is "Blackway" starring Anthony Hopkins, Julia Stiles and Ray Liotta. He is

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) Sammy Davis, Jr., from the British spy spoof "Licensed to Kill" (1965). At the same office Christmas function, the Circus staff sing the official "State Anthem of the USSR", conducted by a figure dressed as Father Christmas but wearing a Lenin mask. The film premiered in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival on 5 September 2011. StudioCanal UK distributed the film in the United Kingdom, where it was released on 16 September 2011. The US rights were acquired by Universal Pictures, which have a permanent first-look deal with Working Title, and they passed the rights to their subsidiary

neg: The Moscow rules They were dead simple and full of common sense.In the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., the Moscow Rules are given as: Other rules which have been circulated around the Internet and used in fiction include: Moscow rules are prominently referenced in John le Carré's cold war books including "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and "Smiley's People", as tradecraft, including use of inconspicuous signal markers (drawing pins, chalk marks), the use of dead drops, and the ways to signal the need for a (rare) face-to-face meeting. Moscow Rules are important at the beginning of "Smiley's People," where the General invokes the

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) cultural attaché in London, was a spy. Tarr tells Smiley that on an assignment in Istanbul, he had an affair with Irina, a Soviet agent. She wanted to reveal the name of a mole in the top ranks of the Circus but when Tarr reported this to London, they ignored him and ordered him straight home, while the Soviets promptly kidnapped Irina. Concluding that the mole had intercepted his message, Tarr went into hiding, suspected of defecting and murdering the British station chief. Smiley sends Guillam to steal the Circus logbook for the night Tarr had called and finds the

neg: Ian Bannen "The Hill". Bannen turned down lead roles in "Hawaii Five-O", "Van der Valk" and "The Love Boat". His notable television appearances include parts in "Doctor Finlay", "Thriller", and as a schoolteacher and ex-spy in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". Director John Schlesinger cast him as a replacement for Alan Bates in the part of well-off homosexual doctor Daniel Hirsh in his controversial film "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (1971), after Bates was deemed unavailable to shoot. According to screenwriter Penelope Gilliatt, Bannen never felt comfortable with the part. The anxiety adversely affected his performance during the early filming. Schlesinger replaced Bannen with Peter

neg: Konstantin Khabensky as "Wanted" (2008), "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (2011), "World War Z" (2013) and "Black Sea" (2014). In "World War Z", Konstantin's role as Russian soldier was cut due to re-shooting of the 30 Minutes of the ending. Khabensky has admitted that the language barrier stopped him from taking on serious roles in Hollywood. Konstantin Khabensky was married to radio-journalist Anastasiya Khabenskaya from 12 January 2000, until her death at age 33 from a brain tumor on 3 December 2008. He has one son by her, Ivan, who was born in Moscow on 25 September 2007. In Russia he lives in

neg: Ricki Tarr Ricki Tarr Ricki Tarr is a fictional character created by John le Carré, and is a major figure in le Carré's "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". Ricki Tarr was a field agent, a member of "scalphunters", a section used when a bit of physical derring-do might be called for by the Circus, based at a fictitious Brixton laundry and jokingly described as "cosh and carry" by Smiley. He is sent on a mission to Hong Kong to run the rule over a Russian potential blackmail target who, when he gets there, Tarr realizes is a "Moscow Centre trained hood" engaged in

neg: Tomas Alfredson Tomas Alfredson Hans Christian Tomas Alfredson (born 1 April 1965) is a Swedish film director who is best known internationally for directing the 2008 vampire film "Let the Right One In" and 2011 espionage film "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". Alfredson has received the Guldbagge award for Best Direction twice; in 2005 for "Four Shades of Brown", and in 2008 for "Let the Right One In". He is the son of director and actor Hans Alfredson and the brother of director Daniel Alfredson. Alfredson was born in 1965 in Lidingö, Stockholms län, Sweden, the son of Gunilla and comedian, writer, and

neg: Connie Sachs Connie Sachs Connie Sachs is a fictional character created by John le Carré. Sachs plays a key supporting role in the Karla Trilogy, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "The Honourable Schoolboy", and "Smiley's People". Sachs is an eccentric alcoholic with an incredible memory and intellect who works in the research department of the Circus. According to legend, Control met her while she was at university and was so impressed that he invented a job so as to hire her. Her personal and professional life is devoted to the study of Soviet intelligence and most notably the Soviet spymaster known as Karla.

neg: Canal+ Group films produced in France is a major source of Canal Plus' strength. It has even created its own subsidiary companies with direct involvement in film production. StudioCanal, one of these subsidiaries, spends €200 million a year on movie production establishing as the first port of call outside the U.S. for intelligent upmarket movies like "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" which is fully financed. Canal+ has operations in France and Poland, through its flagship brand Canal+. It is encrypted for most of the day, and viewers who wish to watch the channel's more popular programming (new-release movies and live sport) must subscribe

neg: Jim Prideaux by Mark Strong. This adaptation emphasizes Prideaux's linguistic and intellectual abilities, presenting him as more scholarly and reserved than the book or miniseries. Nonetheless, he is still depicted as a competent soldier, and at the end of the film shoots Haydon to death with a rifle rather than break his neck. Jim Prideaux Jim Prideaux is a fictional character created by John le Carré. He appears in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", with the book's events alternating between his point of view and that of George Smiley, and a minor character in "A Legacy of Spies". He is a member of

neg: Simon McBurney Simon McBurney Simon Montagu McBurney, OBE (born 25 August 1957) is an English actor, writer and director. He is the founder and artistic director of the Théâtre de Complicité, London. He has had roles in the films "The Manchurian Candidate", "Friends with Money", "The Golden Compass", "The Duchess", "Robin Hood", "", "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "Magic in the Moonlight", "The Theory of Everything" and "". McBurney was born in Cambridge, England. His father, Charles McBurney, was an American archaeologist and academic. Charles McBurney was the grandson of the American surgeon Charles McBurney (who was credited with describing the medical sign

neg: George Smiley during the events of the book. This has led Dwight Garner of "The New York Times" to observe that Smiley is "one of those ashen Englishmen, like the poet Philip Larkin, who seem to be permanently 60 years old." Although Smiley has no concrete biography beyond that offered briefly at the beginning of "Call for the Dead", le Carré does leave clues in his novels. Smiley was born to middle class parents in the South of England in the early part of the 20th century (his birth date is retconned from 1906 to 1915 in "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"), and

neg: Karla (character) Secret Pilgrim", when Smiley tells a group of probationary intelligence officers that he was the one who debriefed Karla in captivity. Speaking in general about the nature of interrogations, Smiley says that sometimes they are "communions between damaged souls." The date of Smiley's first encounter with Karla, in the jail in New Delhi, is unclear. In "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", we are told that the interrogation took place in the fifties. But in "Smiley's People", Smiley recalls the meeting as having occurred in the sixties. He is also mentioned by Jim Prideaux in the 2017 novel "A Legacy of Spies",

neg: Robyn Slovo Robyn Slovo Robyn Slovo is a South African born film producer, based in the UK. Her work includes the 2000 film "Morvern Callar", the 2006 film "Catch a Fire", and the 2011 film "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy". Slovo started her career in theatre, before moving into the television and film industry, working first as a script editor and development executive for the BBC, and then as a film producer for Company Pictures and Working Title Films. Slovo is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First — both major figures in the anti-apartheid struggle who lived perilous lives of exile,

neg: Mark Strong Mark Strong Mark Strong (born Marco Giuseppe Salussolia; 5 August 1963) is an English actor. He is known for his roles in films such as "Stardust", "RocknRolla", "Body of Lies", "Sherlock Holmes", "Kick-Ass", "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "Zero Dark Thirty", "The Imitation Game", "" and its sequel "". Strong was born Marco Giuseppe Salussolia on 5 August 1963 in Islington, London, the son of an Austrian mother and an Italian father. His father left the family soon after his birth, and Strong was brought up by his mother, who worked as an au pair. Strong said in an interview, "The

neg: Betty Willingale Betty Willingale Betty Willingale is a British television producer, formerly a script editor, who is best known for her work on BBC TV drama adaptations of classic literature. She was a BBC script editor from the 1960s and worked on key BBC drama series and serials including "North and South" (1975) and "I, Claudius" (1976). She went on to form a strong working partnership with producer Jonathan Powell, script editing many of Powell's most successful drama serials including the hit adaptations of "A Christmas Carol" (1977), " Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (1979), Pride and Prejudice (1980),"The Barchester Chronicles" (1982) and

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (miniseries) suspects were promoted, is recalled to expose the mole. Under instruction from Oliver Lacon, the civil servant responsible for overseeing the intelligence services, Smiley begins a secret investigation into the events surrounding Operation Testify, believing it will lead him to the identity of the mole, who Moscow Centre has given the cover name "Gerald". With the help of his protégé Guillam, who is still in the Circus, he gradually uncovers an ingenious plot, as well as the ultimate betrayal—of country, of the service and of friendship. Shortly before filming began, Alec Guinness asked author John le Carré to introduce him

neg: Douglas Urbanski Hurt and Kathy Burke, and was directed by Tomas Alfredson. "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" received eleven 2012 British Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director; the film also received three Oscar Nominations for the 2012 Academy Awards. In 2012, "Tinker" became the second Urbanski film to win the British Academy Award for Outstanding British Film of the Year. Urbanski was executive producer of the film "Criminal", released in late 2015. It was directed by Ariel Vromen and stars Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, and Tommy Lee Jones. In 2016 Urbanski was executive producer of "Hitman's Bodyguard", which

neg: Peter Grimwade John le Carré's "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" (1979). Grimwade next directed some episodes of the drama series "All Creatures Great and Small" (1978) (which coincidentally featured Peter Davison, who Grimwade would direct twice and write for three times on "Doctor Who") before returning to "Doctor Who" as a director. After directing the serial "Full Circle" (1980) Grimwade was given the task of directing Tom Baker's final serial, "Logopolis". When Peter Davison became the Doctor, Grimwade first directed him in the serial "Kinda" (1982) and then directed "Earthshock", featuring the return of the Cybermen to the show after eight years and

neg: The Honourable Schoolboy Operation Dolphin yields top Circus jobs for Enderby and Collins, who becomes (temporary) Chief of the Circus. Smiley and Connie Sachs are retired with pensions and Peter Guillam is sent to head the scalphunters in Brixton. The characters' jargon establishes the fictional authenticity of the espionage portrayed in "The Honourable Schoolboy"; examples of John le Carré's tradecraft language are: The Circus The Steering Committee (authorising further operations after the Ko bank account papers are obtained) Other characters Jonathan Powell, producer of "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" (1979), said the BBC considered producing "The Honourable Schoolboy" but a production in South East

neg: Savile Club Films History and the military Mathematics and computing Medicine Music Politics and political theory Science Writing Other occupations Fictitious members of the Savile Club include Bill Haydon, the aristocratic polymath and British intelligence agent at the heart of John le Carré's novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", and William French, wine merchant and Master of Wine (failed), in Alexander McCall Smith’s "The Dog Who Came in from the Cold." Savile Club The Savile Club is a traditional London gentlemen's club founded in 1868. Though located somewhat out of the way from the main centre of London's gentlemen's clubs, closer to the

neg: Peter Straughan University. While Peter was a student he was also a member of the band Cactusman. Peter wrote the song "Killer", which appeared on the CD album "North of London", a collection of music by North East bands released through Newcastle Arts. Straughan co-wrote the 2006 feature film, "Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution" and adapted Toby Young's memoir "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People". He is the writer of the 2009 film, "The Men Who Stare at Goats", and co-writer of the 2011 film "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay, a screenplay

neg: Tom Hardy 2010, he starred as Eames in Christopher Nolan's science fiction thriller "Inception" for which he won a BAFTA Rising Star award. Hardy replaced Michael Fassbender in the 2011 film adaptation of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", released on 5 September 2011 at the 68th edition of the Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica in Venice. In March 2010, Hardy signed a first look deal at Warner Bros. In 2011, Hardy starred in the film "Warrior", which was released on 9 September 2011 by Lionsgate Films. His performance as Tommy Riordan, who is trained by his father to fight in a mixed martial arts

neg: Hilary Minster Hilary Minster Roger Michael Hilary Minster (21 March 1944 – 24 November 1999) was an English character actor. Born in Surrey, England, he is perhaps best known for playing General Erich Von Klinkerhoffen in the sitcom "'Allo 'Allo!" between 1984 and 1992. Other credits include "Crossroads"; "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"; and a semi-regular role in "Secret Army" as Hauptmann Muller. Minster also had a brief period writing scripts with Kenneth Williams for the latter's "International Cabaret" television show. In 1974, Minster appeared as Lieutenant Lightfoot in the "Upstairs, Downstairs" episode "Facing Fearful Odds". He also appeared twice in "Doctor Who",

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) gives them supposedly high-grade Soviet intelligence, in exchange for low-grade British material to help him maintain his cover with the Soviets. However, the mole is actually passing substantive material, including American intelligence, to Polyakov, his handler, whilst Polyakov's material has just enough substance to persuade the CIA to share information with the British. Smiley blackmails Esterhase with a threat of deportation to get the safe house's location. Smiley then has Tarr appear at the Paris office, implying he knows who the mole is. The mole is revealed to be Haydon when he meets Polyakov at the safe house, where Smiley

neg: Dimensions (2011 film) Dimensions (2011 film) Dimensions is a 2011 science fiction-love story film set in the 1920s and 1930s. The film was directed by Sloane U’Ren and written by Ant Neely, who are a married couple. The film is U’Ren’s feature film directorial debut and is also known as "Dimensions: A Line, A Loop, A Tangle of Threads". "Dimensions" premiered as part of the 2011 Cambridge Film Festival (U.K.) and outsold, per screen, the U.K. premieres of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "The Help" and "Midnight in Paris". After the Cambridge screenings, the film underwent a minor re-edit and was finished in early

neg: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Intelligence Service (known as "the Circus" because its London office is at Cambridge Circus), has been living in unhappy retirement for a year after an operation in Czechoslovakia, codenamed Testify, ended in disaster with the capture and torture of agent Jim Prideaux. The failure resulted in the dismissals of Smiley and his superior, Control, the head of the Circus. Smiley is unexpectedly approached by Peter Guillam, his former protege at the Circus, and Under-Secretary Oliver Lacon, the Civil Service officer responsible for overseeing the Circus. At Lacon's home they meet with Ricki Tarr, a Circus agent who had been missing