Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a spy novel by John le Carré, published in 1974.

Television

The novel was dramatized as a seven-part television mini-series for the BBC in 1979, starring Alec Guinness as George Smiley and many other well-known British actors cast in key roles, notably Connie Sachs (a brilliant cameo played by Beryl Reid). By coincidence, the miniseries' first showing in 1979 coincided with the announcement that Anthony Blunt, Keeper of the Queen's pictures, had also spied with Burgess et al for Moscow.

Related Topics:
Mini-series - BBC - 1979 - Alec Guinness - Beryl Reid - Anthony Blunt

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Cast

George Smiley - (Alec Guinness)

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Peter Guillam - (Michael Jayston)

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Oliver Lacon - (Anthony Bate)

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Toby Esterhase - (Bernard Hepton)

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Bill Haydon - (Ian Richardson)

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Jim Prideaux - (Ian Bannen)

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Ricki Tarr - (Hywel Bennett)

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Percy Alleline - (Michael Aldridge)

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Roy Bland - (Terence Rigby)

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Control - (Alexander Knox)

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Connie Sachs - (Beryl Reid)

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Jerry Westerby - (Joss Ackland)

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Ann Smiley - (Sian Phillips)

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Roddy Martindale - (Nigel Stock)

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Karla - (Patrick Stewart)

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Sam Collins - (John Standing)

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Tufty Thessinger - (Thorley Walters)

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Alwyn - (Warren Clarke)

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Irina - (Susan Kodicek)

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Fawn - (Alec Sabin)

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Boris - (Hilary Minster)

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Polyakov - (George Pravda)

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"Jumbo" Roach - (Duncan Jones)

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