"up. In the first chapter of the novel, the reader also learns of Bullivant's son Harry Bullivant, who lost his life while spying in the Middle East in the guise of a muleteer. Sir Walter Bullivant Sir Walter Bullivant is a fictional character created by the Scottish thriller writer John Buchan for his series of novels featuring the spy Richard Hannay. He plays small but significant roles in both ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" and ""Greenmantle"". Sir Walter is a senior mandarin at the Foreign Office in the years leading up to World War I. He is the archetypal spymaster — gruff,"
"this theatrical adaptation, the character's full name is given as Richard Charles Arbuthnot Hannay. As revealed through the various novels, Richard Hannay was born in Scotland about 1877; his father was Scottish and had German business partners. He was brought up to speak German pretty fluently. At the age of six he joins his father in South Africa. He becomes a mining engineer, spending three years prospecting for copper in German Damaraland and makes a small fortune in Bulawayo. He takes part in the Matabele Wars, serves two years with the Imperial Light Horse and serves as an intelligence officer"
"engineer Richard Hannay caught up in an espionage conspiracy following the death of a British spy in his flat. The single drama was first shown on BBC One and BBC HD on 28 December 2008 as part of BBC One's Christmas 2008 line-up, and it was the most watched programme of the day. Compared to Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 film, it received mostly negative reviews from the press. The production was criticised for its historical inaccuracies, particularly its use of anachronistic props. The story starts on 28 June 1914; Richard Hannay (Rupert Penry-Jones), a mining engineer and an intelligence officer during"
"Sandy Arbuthnot Ludovic ""Sandy"" Gustavus Arbuthnot, later 16th Lord Clanroyden is a fictional character who appears in various books by John Buchan in the Richard Hannay series. These books include ""Greenmantle"", ""The Three Hostages"", ""The Courts of the Morning"", and ""The Island of Sheep"", but not the first in the series, ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"". He also appears in ""The League of Heroes"" by Xavier Mauméjean. His particular expertise is in adopting disguises which completely take in Hannay, the ""friend [he] knows best in the world"". From the data within Buchan's novels, it is possible to deduce that Arbuthnot was born"
"The 90-minute film stars Rupert Penry-Jones as Richard Hannay and was broadcast on 28 December 2008 A romantic subplot was added to the story, featuring Lydia Leonard. The storyline only very tenuously follows that of the book, many characters being renamed, or omitted altogether. The film ends with a scene involving a submarine in a Scottish loch, rather than the original setting off the Kent coast, and the apparent death of one character. A comic theatrical adaptation by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon for a cast of four actors premiered in 1995 at the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond, North"
"27 and 28 August 2013, and again on 30 April and 1 May 2015, with David Robb as Richard Hannay and James Fleet as Sandy Arbuthnot, forced to be 'Greenmantle':. The character Sandy Arbuthnot, Hannay's resourceful polyglot friend, was based on Buchan's friend, Aubrey Herbert, though some propose that he is based on Lawrence of Arabia. The character of Hannay drew on the real life military officer, Field Marshal Lord Ironside. Many of the novel's references to political tensions in the Middle East seem strangely contemporary at the beginning of the 21st century. The potential of the tale to arouse"
"of Carnarvon), but later also reflected T.E. Lawrence. Sandy Arbuthnot Ludovic ""Sandy"" Gustavus Arbuthnot, later 16th Lord Clanroyden is a fictional character who appears in various books by John Buchan in the Richard Hannay series. These books include ""Greenmantle"", ""The Three Hostages"", ""The Courts of the Morning"", and ""The Island of Sheep"", but not the first in the series, ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"". He also appears in ""The League of Heroes"" by Xavier Mauméjean. His particular expertise is in adopting disguises which completely take in Hannay, the ""friend [he] knows best in the world"". From the data within Buchan's novels, it"
"The Thirty-Nine Steps The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in ""Blackwood's Magazine"" in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations. The novel formed the basis for a number of film adaptations: Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 version; a 1959 colour remake; a 1978 version which is perhaps"
"to Buchan. They were replaced by concrete, and this set of steps still runs from the garden to the beach. The Thirty-Nine Steps The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in ""Blackwood's Magazine"" in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations. The novel formed the basis"
"Robert J. Harris, purports to be the first volume of a new series called ""Richard Hannay Returns' about Hannay's adventures during World War II. In ""Combined Forces"" (1985), a humorous novel by Jack Smithers, Hannay teams up with the similar heroes ""Sapper""'s Bulldog Drummond and Dornford Yates' Jonah Mansel. Hannay has been portrayed in four film versions of ""The Thirty Nine Steps"" respectively, by actors Robert Donat (in the original and most famous film adaptation, directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935), Kenneth More, Robert Powell and Rupert Penry-Jones (in a 2008 BBC production). Powell reprised the role for the ITV"
"John Creasey John Creasey MBE (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973) was an English crime and science fiction writer who wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms. He created several characters which are now famous, such as The Toff (The Honourable Richard Rollison), Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, Inspector Roger West, The Baron (John Mannering), Doctor Emmanuel Cellini and Doctor Stanislaus Alexander Palfrey. The most popular of these was Gideon of Scotland Yard, who was the basis for the television series ""Gideon's Way"" and for the John Ford movie ""Gideon of Scotland Yard"" (1958), also"
"working and the clock's big hand falls into a vertical position, but Hannay hangs on and one of the officers saves him with a looped rope. Sir Edmund Appleton is convicted of treason and Hannay is declared a hero for helping Britain gain valuable time to prepare for the Great War. Producer Greg Smith said he wanted to make the film because he had always been a fan of John Buchan's books and wanted to do a version of ""The 39 Steps"" which was ""true to the period in which the novel was set, just prior to the Great War,"
"The Three Hostages The Three Hostages is the fourth of five Richard Hannay novels by Scottish author John Buchan, first published in 1924 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. Hannay had previously appeared in ""The Thirty Nine Steps"" (1915), his most famous adventure in which he battles German spies across England and Scotland, and two books about his activities during the First World War, ""Greenmantle"" (1916) and ""Mr Standfast"" (1919). After the War, Hannay is married to Mary and living peacefully in the Cotswolds, when he receives a request to help solve the mysterious kidnapping of the children of three prominent"
"Mr Standfast Mr Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being ""Greenmantle"" (1916); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" (1915), is set in the period immediately before the war started. The title refers to a character in John Bunyan's ""Pilgrim's Progress"", to which there are many other references in the novel; Hannay uses a copy of ""Pilgrim's Progress"" to decipher coded messages from his contacts, and letters from his"
"adventurers and the founder of Harlequin Enterprises, the world's largest publisher of romance novels. Richard Henry Bonnycastle Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle (30 September 1791 – 3 November 1847) was an officer of the British army active in Upper Canada. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle was the son of Professor John Bonnycastle, and was born in 1791. He studied at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, as a cadet, and passed out as a second lieutenant of the royal engineers 28 September 1808, becoming a first lieutenant in the following year. He served at the siege of Flushing in 1809, and"
"Robert J. Harris (writer) Robert J. Harris (Bob) is a Scottish academic and author, particularly of children's fantasies and historical novels, best known for his collaborations with Jane Yolen. He also designed the fantasy board game ""Talisman"" and its sequel ""Mythgardia"". Harris was born in Dundee and studied at the University of St. Andrews, achieving a first class honours degree in Latin. Harris lives in Scotland and is married to American author Deborah Turner Harris. His recent adult suspense-adventure works ""The Thirty-One Kings"" and ""Castle Macnab"" feature the return of John Buchan's classic adventurer-spy character Richard Hannay, first made famous"
"people. Given nothing to go on but a few mysterious clues, Hannay, assisted by friends like Sandy Arbuthnot, must track down the dastardly villains behind the plot before it's too late... It is some time after the war, and Sir Richard Hannay is living in rural tranquility, having bought Fosse Manor and married Mary Lamington (both featured in ""Mr Standfast""); they have a small son, named Peter John. Hannay's new friend, local doctor Tom Greenslade, a well-travelled and learned man, talks ominously one night of psychology, the subconscious, thrillers and post-war society. Later, Dick reads a letter from his old"
"1915 published his most famous work, ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"", a spy-thriller set just prior to World War I. The novel featured Buchan's oft used hero, Richard Hannay, whose character was based on Edmund Ironside, a friend of Buchan from his days in South Africa. A sequel, ""Greenmantle"", came the following year. In June 1916 Buchan was sent out to the Western Front to be attached to the British Army's General Head Quarters Intelligence Section, to assist with drafting official communiques for the press. On arrival he received a field-commission as a second lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps. Recognised for his"
"Robert Powell Robert Powell (; born 1 June 1944) is an English television and film actor, best known for the title role in ""Jesus of Nazareth"" (1977) and as the fictional secret agent Richard Hannay. He is also known for his roles as Mark Williams in the BBC One medical drama ""Holby City"", as David Briggs in the sitcom ""The Detectives"" alongside Jasper Carrott, and as Tobias 'Toby' Wren in the ""science-fact"" drama ""Doomwatch"". His distinctive voice has become well known in advertisements and documentaries, especially in World War II documentaries including ""World War II in HD Colour"", ""Hitler's Bodyguard"","
"most faithful to the novel; and a 2008 version for British television. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's ""best-loved novels."" John Buchan wrote ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" while he was ill in bed with a duodenal ulcer, an illness which remained with him all his life. The novel was his first ""shocker"", as he called it – a story combining personal and political dramas. The novel marked a turning point in Buchan's literary career and introduced his adventuring hero, Richard Hannay. He described a ""shocker"" as an adventure where the events"
"Hannay she'll see him after the war. Announced by the BBC in August 2008, filming began in September 2008 for a first broadcast at Christmas. Penry-Jones, who had previously worked on the spy drama ""Spooks"", took the lead role, with the screenplay written by Lizzie Mickery (co-writer of the dramas ""The State Within"" and ""Messiah""), produced by Lynn Horsford (""Boy A"", ""The Mark of Cain"") and directed by James Hawes (""Fanny Hill"", ""Merlin"", ""Doctor Who""). Penry-Jones became the fifth actor to play Hannay on screen, preceded by Robert Donat, Kenneth More, Barry Foster, and Robert Powell. At the time of"
"historical elements of the story along with Powell interviewing biblical historians such as Helen Bond and Candida Moss. Robert Powell Robert Powell (; born 1 June 1944) is an English television and film actor, best known for the title role in ""Jesus of Nazareth"" (1977) and as the fictional secret agent Richard Hannay. He is also known for his roles as Mark Williams in the BBC One medical drama ""Holby City"", as David Briggs in the sitcom ""The Detectives"" alongside Jasper Carrott, and as Tobias 'Toby' Wren in the ""science-fact"" drama ""Doomwatch"". His distinctive voice has become well known in"
"Norman Hunter (author) Norman George Lorimer Hunter (23 November 1899 – 23 February 1995) was a British children's author, creator of Professor Branestawm. Hunter was born in Sydenham, England, on 23 November 1899. He attended Beckenham County School for Boys (later known as Beckenham and Penge Grammar School and then Langley Park School for Boys). He left school to volunteer for service during World War I in the London Irish Rifles. Hunter wrote popular books on writing for advertising, brain-teasers and conjuring among many others. His career started as an advertising copywriter and in the 1930s he was performing as"
"of the story seems realistic. Greenmantle Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being ""Mr Standfast"" (1919); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" (1915), is set in the period immediately preceding the war. Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he"
"plaque, was sent to Buchan. The mysterious phrase ""Thirty-Nine Steps"", first mentioned by the character Franklin Scudder, becomes the title of the novel and the solution to its meaning is a thread that runs through the whole story. The novel is set during May and June 1914; war was evident in Europe, Richard Hannay the protagonist and narrator, an expatriate Scot, returns to his new home, a flat in London, after a long stay in Rhodesia to begin a new life. One night he is buttonholed by a stranger, a well-travelled American, who claims to be in fear for his"
"friend Peter Pienaar. During the later years of the First World War Brigadier-General Hannay is recalled from active service on the Western Front to undertake a secret mission hunting for a dangerous German agent at large in Britain. Hannay is required to work undercover disguised as a pacifist, roaming the country incognito to investigate a German spy and his agents, and then heads to the Swiss Alps to save Europe from being overwhelmed by the German army. Dick Hannay, under forty and already a successful Brigadier-General with good prospects of advancement, is called out of uniform by his old comrade,"
"Leonard McNally Leonard McNally (1752–1820), sometimes spelled MacNally or Macnally, was a Dublin barrister, playwright, lyricist, founding member of the United Irishmen and spy for the British Government within Irish republican circles. He was a successful lawyer in late 18th and early 19th century Dublin, and wrote a law book that was crucial in the development of the ""beyond reasonable doubt"" standard in criminal trials. However, during his time, he was best known for his popular comic operas and plays, together with his most enduring work, the romantic song ""The Lass of Richmond Hill"". He is now mainly remembered as"
"film of all time. The 1959 film directed by Ralph Thomas was the first colour version, starring Kenneth More as Hannay and Taina Elg as Miss Fisher. The film is closely based on Hitchcock's adaptation, including the music-hall finale with ""Mr Memory"" and Hannay's escape from a train on the Forth Bridge, scenes not present in the book. It features a musical score by Clifton Parker. The 1978 version was directed by Don Sharp and starred Robert Powell as Hannay, Karen Dotrice as Alex, John Mills as Colonel Scudder and a host of other well-known British actors in smaller parts."
"by John Buchan is ""The Island of Sheep"" (1936), although he also appears as a minor character in ""The Courts of the Morning"" (1929) The Three Hostages The Three Hostages is the fourth of five Richard Hannay novels by Scottish author John Buchan, first published in 1924 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. Hannay had previously appeared in ""The Thirty Nine Steps"" (1915), his most famous adventure in which he battles German spies across England and Scotland, and two books about his activities during the First World War, ""Greenmantle"" (1916) and ""Mr Standfast"" (1919). After the War, Hannay is married to"
"Greenmantle Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being ""Mr Standfast"" (1919); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" (1915), is set in the period immediately preceding the war. Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he and his friends must thwart"
"Bernard Fox (actor) Bernard Lawson (11 May 1927 – 14 December 2016), better known as Bernard Fox, was a Welsh actor. He is best remembered for his roles as Dr. Bombay in the comedy fantasy series ""Bewitched"" (1964–1972), Colonel Crittendon in the comedy series ""Hogan's Heroes"" (1965–1971), Malcolm Merriweather in ""The Andy Griffith Show"" (1963–1965), Colonel Redford in ""Barnaby Jones"" (1975), Max in ""Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo"" (1977), Archibald Gracie IV in the epic romance-disaster film ""Titanic"" (1997), and Captain Winston Havlock in the action-adventure fantasy horror film ""The Mummy"" (1999). Fox was a fifth-generation performer. He was born"
"by ""2"" after the publication date were written under the pseudonym ""Elise Fecamps""; <br>those indicated by ""3"" after the publication date were written under the pseudonym ""Henry St John Cooper"". John Creasey John Creasey MBE (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973) was an English crime and science fiction writer who wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms. He created several characters which are now famous, such as The Toff (The Honourable Richard Rollison), Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, Inspector Roger West, The Baron (John Mannering), Doctor Emmanuel Cellini and Doctor Stanislaus Alexander Palfrey. The most"
"Archie Roylance Sir Archibald Roylance was a fictional character created by John Buchan. He appeared in many Buchan novels although never as the protagonist. He was a good friend of Richard Hannay and Edward Leithen despite being younger than them. According to one writer: In no novel is Roylance a protagonist, but usually, and less and less reluctantly, drawn into the affairs of others. Apart from Dougal and Jaikie of the Gorbals Diehards he is younger by a dozen years or more than all Buchan's paladins, a d'Artagnan among the Musketeers, and mostly they deal with him in avuncular fashion,"