"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"
"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"
"John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris John Michael Ward Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris (3 November 1908 – 6 August 1988) was a former MI5 spy and an English novelist who published 17 thrillers, detective novels and spy novels. During the Second World War and for two decades after 1950, Bingham worked for MI5, and had long been said to be the inspiration for John le Carré's character George Smiley. In 1999 le Carré confirmed that Bingham had been an inspiration for Smiley and in 2000 went further, writing in an introduction to a reissue of one of Bingham's novels that ""He"
"of second hand, childish banalities."" Guinness grew so tired of modern audiences apparently knowing him only for his role of Obi-Wan Kenobi that he would throw away the mail he received from ""Star Wars"" fans without reading it. From the 1970s, Guinness made regular appearances on UK television, including the part of George Smiley in the serialisations of two novels by John le Carré: ""Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"" and ""Smiley's People"". He twice won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for the roles, and Le Carré was so impressed by Guinness's performance as Smiley that he based his"
"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"
"fictional character George Smiley, though Le Carré disputes this. In his memoir ""The Pigeon Tunnel. Stories from My Life"" Le Carré describes a lunchtime session between Oldfield, himself and Alec Guinness; intended to provide the actor with a sense of the manner and appearance of an ""old spy in retirement"". It was reported by the BBC's current affairs program ""Panorama"" in October 2012, that he had been linked to the Elm Guest House child abuse scandal, supposedly involving senior MPs and security personnel, by the Operation Midland investigation, and a Metropolitan Police informant. The investigation ended without charges, and in"
"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"
"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,"
"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"
"Vivian H. H. Green Vivian Hubert Howard Green (18 November 1915 – 18 January 2005) was a Fellow and Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, a priest, author, teacher, and historian. He was also celebrated for his influence on his student John le Carré, who in 1995 acknowledged him as one of the models for his spymaster character George Smiley. Green was born in Wembley, Middlesex, England; his parents, Hubert and Edith Green, owned confectionery shops, first in Wembley, and then on the Isle of Wight. Strongly encouraged by his mother, Green attended Bradfield College, Berkshire, then won a Goldsmith's scholarship"
"welcoming more realistic versions of espionage fiction, in contrast to the glamorous world of Ian Fleming's James Bond. Smiley is sometimes considered the anti-Bond in the sense that Bond is an unrealistic figure and is more a portrayal of a male fantasy than a realistic government agent. George Smiley, on the other hand, is quiet, mild-mannered and not at all athletic. He lives by his wits and, unlike Bond, is a master of quiet, disciplined intelligence work, rather than gunplay. In ""The Honourable Schoolboy"" it becomes clear that he is not as adept at bureaucratic manoeuvring as the duplicitous Sam"
"""The Honourable Schoolboy"" and ""Smiley's People"" were later published as an omnibus edition titled ""Smiley Versus Karla"" in 1982. In 1974 George Smiley, the new chief of the secret intelligence service referred to as The Circus, continues to investigate his spy service in the aftermath of his exposure of Bill Haydon as Gerald the mole. Attempting to follow the trail of Karla, the Moscow Centre spymaster and to protect his politically-weakened spy service, Smiley launches an offensive against the Soviets. He and analysts Connie Sachs and Doc di Salis look into investigations unreasonably suppressed by the outed mole. They discover"
"Smiley (1956 film) Smiley is an American-British DeLuxe Color film made in 1956 and set in Australia, filmed in CinemaScope. It tells the story of a young Australian boy who is determined to buy a bicycle for four pounds. Along the way he gets into many misadventures. It was based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Moore Raymond who also co-wrote the film with Anthony Kimmins. Their screenplay received a Best British Screenplay nomination at the BAFTA awards. Smiley (Colin Petersen) is a mischievous boy who lives in the small country town of Murrumbilla (based on Augathella)."
"was dramatized as a six-part miniseries for television for the BBC in 1982 as a sequel to ""Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"" (1979), again starring Alec Guinness as George Smiley. The screenplay was written by John le Carré and John Hopkins and was directed by Simon Langton. Two versions of this series exist: 1) the six-part UK version, which expands upon several important aspects of Smiley's objectives and Enderby's endorsement of these, and 2) the six-part PBS version in which much of the ""back story"" had been excised, for time. In 2009–2011, BBC Radio 4 also broadcast new dramatisations, by Shaun"
"from 1970 to 1975. In 1976, he became a Fellow of the British Academy. He was for many years editor of German Life and Letters, whose most famous subscriber is perhaps John Le Carre's character George Smiley He married Jeanne Marie Louise Billeter of Basel in 1939 and they had one son and two daughters. He died in Cambridge in 1997. Leonard Wilson Forster Leonard Wilson Forster (30 March 1913 – 18 April 1997) was Professor of German at University College London, and Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge. Born in London, Forster studied at Marlborough College,"
"East-West moral equivalence. Moreover, they experience little of the violence typically encountered in action thrillers and have very little recourse to gadgets. Much of the conflict is internal, rather than external and visible. The recurring character George Smiley, who plays a central role in five novels and appears as a supporting character in four more, was written as an ""antidote"" to James Bond, a character le Carré called ""an international gangster"" rather than a spy and whom he felt should be excluded from the canon of espionage literature. In contrast, he intended Smiley, who is an overweight, bespectacled bureaucrat who"
"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"
"written by Tim Seeley & Steve Seeley and drawn by Rafael Lanhellas. In the newest serialization, Ernest Fairchild was a child born from tragedy. The soon to be youngest son in a family of four as his mother went into labor a malicious entity possessed his father while they were driving her to the hospital killing everybody from his mother, father to older brother in a hideous car accident; the being later revealed to be Ernest's future compatriot Smiley. He would later be adopted to an abusive parental figure by the name of Bufford King, who would regularly accost him"
"and ""Puppy Dog Pals"" on Disney Junior. In 2016, Smiley founded the Humble Picture Company with writer Grant Nieporte. Their inaugural producing project is a film adaptation of the book ""Hope Heals"". In 2008, Smiley followed Tiger Woods from the gallery for the entirety of Woods' season and wrote a memoir about the adventure. Smiley came up with the idea after following Tiger for the second round of the Target World Challenge in December 2007. Smiley wrote an article for espn.com about the round, in which Tiger shot a tournament-record 62. Bob Smiley Bob Smiley (born June 28, 1977 in"
"Sophie Smiley Sophie Smiley (born 1 March 1957) is an author of books for children. She lives in Cambridge and is married with two sons. Smiley was born in a Dominican monastery near Cambridge. She now teaches English and is also a staff member of Forest School Camps, working with both able students and those with learning difficulties. She is the daughter of the philosopher and logician Timothy Smiley. Smiley is best known for her partnership with Michael Foreman. She has written five stories about a football-mad family. Her books include ""Bobby, Charlton and the Mountain"", ""Man of the Match"","
"vote against the college accepting women, but remained in office after the vote in 1979, becoming Rector in 1983. He died in Oxfordshire and is buried in the churchyard of St. Oswalds Church, Widford, Oxfordshire. Vivian H. H. Green Vivian Hubert Howard Green (18 November 1915 – 18 January 2005) was a Fellow and Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, a priest, author, teacher, and historian. He was also celebrated for his influence on his student John le Carré, who in 1995 acknowledged him as one of the models for his spymaster character George Smiley. Green was born in Wembley, Middlesex,"
"George Grossmith George Grossmith (9 December 1847 – 1 March 1912) was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer. His performing career spanned more than four decades. As a writer and composer, he created 18 comic operas, nearly 100 musical sketches, some 600 songs and piano pieces, three books and both serious and comic pieces for newspapers and magazines. Grossmith is best remembered for two aspects of his career. First, he created a series of nine memorable characters in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan from 1877 to 1889, including Sir Joseph Porter, in ""H.M.S. Pinafore"" (1878), the"
"Bill Tidy William Edward ""Bill"" Tidy, MBE (born 9 October 1933), is a British cartoonist, writer and television personality, known chiefly for his comic strips. Tidy was appointed MBE in 2000 for ""Services to Journalism"". He is noted for his charitable work, particularly for the Lord's Taverners, which he has supported for over 30 years. Deeply proud of his working class roots in the North of England, his most abiding cartoon strips, such as the Cloggies and the Fosdyke Saga, have been set in an exaggerated version of that environment. He now lives in Boylestone, Derbyshire. He was born in"
"Asia was considered prohibitively expensive and therefore the BBC instead adapted the third novel of the Karla Trilogy ""Smiley's People"" (1979) which was transmitted in 1982. In 1983 the BBC adapted ""The Honourable Schoolboy"" to radio. Martin Jarvis played Jerry Westerby and Peter Vaughan played George Smiley. A subsequent BBC radio adaptation, first broadcast in 2010 in the Classic Serial slot, featured Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley and Hugh Bonneville as Jerry Westerby, as part of Radio 4's year-long project to adapt all eight Smiley novels. The Honourable Schoolboy The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) is a spy novel by John"
"Kane, featuring Smiley cycling around Northern Ireland and meeting local people. A second series has been commissioned for 2015. In 2014 Smiley played Colonel Morgan Blue in the ""Doctor Who"" episode ""Into the Dalek"". Smiley is married to journalist/broadcaster Miranda Sawyer, with whom he has a son and a daughter. The family lives near Brockwell Park in Herne Hill, London. He shared a flat with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in the 1990s. Michael Smiley Michael Smiley (born 1963) is a Northern Irish comic and actor who lives in London. Smiley was born in 1963 in Belfast and grew up"
"Green's unlikely wisdom, wrapped in academic learning, and something of Bingham's devious resourcefulness and simple patriotism also. All fictional characters are amalgams; all spring from much deeper wells than their apparent counterparts in life. All in the end, like the poor suspects in my files, are refitted and remoulded in the writer's imagination, until they are probably closer to his own nature than to anybody else's. But now that Bingham is dead...it seems only right that I should acknowledge my debt to him: not merely as a component of George Smiley, but as the man who first put the spark"
"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"
"Jonathan Tafler. The novel was adapted as a 90-minute drama by Robert Forrest, produced by Patrick Raynor, and was transmitted on 23 May 2009. Call for the Dead Call for the Dead is John le Carré's first novel, published in 1961. It introduces George Smiley, the most famous of le Carré's recurring characters, in a story about East German spies inside Great Britain. It also introduces a fictional version of British Intelligence, called ""the Circus"" because of its location in Cambridge Circus, that is apparently based on MI6 and that recurs throughout le Carré's spy novels. ""Call for the Dead"""
"version of espionage life. Short, overweight, balding, and bespectacled, Smiley is polite and self-effacing and frequently allows others to mistreat him, including his serially unfaithful wife; these traits mask his inner cunning, eidetic memory, mastery of tradecraft, and occasional ruthlessness. His genius, coupled with other characters' willingness to underestimate him, allows Smiley to consistently achieve his goals and ultimately become one of the most powerful spies in England. The character is held in high esteem in England, where he has become a pop-culture icon on par with Bond. ""The Guardian"" has called him ""the sort of spy [England] believes it"
"Peter Guillam Pierre Guillame, better known by the anglicanized Peter Guillam, is a fictional character in John le Carré's series of espionage novels. He first appears in ""Call for the Dead."" He is the trusted right-hand-man of George Smiley, the protagonist of many of le Carre's novels, and is often the person Smiley turns to for assistance when he fears he cannot trust his peers or subordinates. Guillam is half-French and half-English, and comes from a family that has worked for The Circus (le Carre's name for MI6) for generations. Although ""Call for the Dead"" indicates that he served in"
"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"
"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"
"C. Burnand and Edward Solomon's ""Pickwick"". Grossmith was portrayed by Martyn Green in the 1953 film ""The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan"" and by Martin Savage in the 1999 film ""Topsy-Turvy"". Simon Butteriss portrayed Grossmith in the 2006 television documentary ""A Salaried Wit: Grossmith, Gilbert and Sullivan"" and in the five-part 2015 ""15 Minute Drama"" ""I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General"" on BBC Radio 4. George Grossmith George Grossmith (9 December 1847 – 1 March 1912) was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer. His performing career spanned more than four decades. As a writer and"