"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"
"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"
"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"
"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'"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Smiley (2012 film) Smiley is a 2012 American psychological slasher horror film directed by Michael Gallagher and made by Level 10 Films. The film stars Caitlin Gerard, Melanie Papalia, Keith David, Shane Dawson, Andrew James Allen, Toby Turner, and Liza Weil. The film was released on October 12, 2012. The plot revolves around the titular Smiley killer, the subject of an Internet myth. Supposedly, if a person on a Chatroulette-style website types the phrase ""I did it for the lulz"" three times, their chat partner will be murdered by a killer called Smiley (so named because he mutilated his own"
"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"
"Oldman has conceded that his approach involves an element of overacting, saying: ""[I]t's my influence on those roles that probably they feel bigger than life and a little over-the-top. I mean, I do go for it a bit as an actor, I must admit."" Stuart Heritage of ""The Guardian"" wrote: ""Finding the definitive Gary Oldman ham performance is like trying to choose which of your children you prefer... The man is a long-term devotee of the art of ham."" Conversely, Oldman noted that he enjoys ""playing characters where the silence is loud"", such as with George Smiley in 2011's ""Tinker"
"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"
"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"
"His boss at the Circus is Peter Guillam and it is revealed that George Smiley originally recruited him. Due to various mishaps during his career (e.g., falling for a female Polish agent, causing a suicide via blackmail) Tarr is widely regarded among the scalphunters as ""disaster-prone"". Tarr was played by Hywel Bennett in the 1979 television serial based on the novel. In the 2011 film adaptation, he was played by Tom Hardy. 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"
"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"
"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,"
"is found murdered. In tidying up loose ends for the ""Circus"", his former employer, he discovers a clandestine operation run by his nemesis, Karla, for his own personal benefit. Smiley is able to use this irregularity against Karla, forcing him to defect to the West. The series was produced in partnership with the BBC and Paramount Pictures with a budget of $3 million. Due to the success of ""Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"", director John Irvin was now making movies and unavailable. Later in pre-production, Simon Langton replaced John MacKenzie, Irvin's initial successor as director of the series. During filming, Guinness"
"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"
"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"","
"William H. Macy William Hall Macy Jr. (born March 13, 1950) is an American actor. His film career has been built mostly on his appearances in small, independent films, though he has also appeared in summer action films. Macy has described himself as ""sort of a Middle American, WASPy, Lutheran kind of guy... Everyman"". Macy has won two Emmy Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Since 2011, he has played Frank Gallagher, a main character in the Showtime adaptation of the British television series ""Shameless"". Macy"
"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"
"Tom Hanks Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Hanks is known for his comedic and dramatic roles in such films as ""Splash"" (1984), ""Big"" (1988), ""Turner & Hooch"" (1989), ""A League of Their Own"" (1992), ""Sleepless in Seattle"" (1993), ""Apollo 13"" (1995), ""You've Got Mail"" (1998), ""The Green Mile"" (1999), ""Cast Away"" (2000), ""Road to Perdition"" (2002), ""Cloud Atlas"" (2012), ""Captain Phillips"" (2013), ""Saving Mr. Banks"" (2013), and ""Sully"" (2016). He has also starred in the ""Robert Langdon"" film series, and voices Sheriff Woody in the ""Toy Story"" film series. Hanks has collaborated"
"Gerald Westerby Gerald Westerby, or Jerry Westerby, is a fictional character created by John le Carré, and is the titular figure in ""The Honourable Schoolboy"". Westerby, former cricketer and sports journalist, is an ""Occasional"" asset of British intelligence (""the Circus""). Initially recruited by George Smiley, he was recalled from his Italian idyll and despatched to Hong Kong. Westerby was played by Joss Ackland in the 1979 television serial based on the novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (. He appears in the 2011 film adaptation, where his given story is that of Sam Collins. He was played by Stephen Graham. Hugh"
"February 2011. It went on to gross $414,211,549 worldwide. Firth appeared as senior British secret agent Bill Haydon in the 2011 adaptation of the John le Carré novel ""Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"", directed by Tomas Alfredson, also starring Gary Oldman and Tom Hardy. The film gathered mostly excellent reviews. ""The Independent"" described Firth's performance as ""suavely arrogant"" and praised the film. Deborah Young in ""The Hollywood Reporter"" thought Firth got ""all the best dialogue"", which he delivered ""sardonically"". Leslie Felperin in ""Variety"" wrote that all the actors brought their ""A game"" and Firth was in ""particularly choleric, amusing form."" However,"
"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"
"cinema's greatest villains. He meanwhile gave an acclaimed reading of Ludwig van Beethoven in ""Immortal Beloved"" (1994). In the 21st century, Oldman is known for his roles as Sirius Black in the ""Harry Potter"" series, James Gordon in ""The Dark Knight Trilogy"", Lord Shen in ""Kung Fu Panda 2"" (2011), George Smiley in ""Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"" (2011), a human leader in ""Dawn of the Planet of the Apes"" (2014), and Winston Churchill in ""Darkest Hour"" (2017), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Films in which he has starred have grossed over $11 billion. In addition to"
"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"
"of President Barack Obama.<ref name=""http://www.wjhg.com/home/headlines/Obama-Receives-a-Celebrity-Endorsement-at-FSU-173577571.html""></ref> Jason Alexander Jay Scott Greenspan (born September 23, 1959), known by his stage name Jason Alexander, is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, and director. Alexander is best known for his role as George Costanza in the television series ""Seinfeld"". Other well-known roles include Phillip Stuckey in the film ""Pretty Woman"" (1990) and the title character in the animated series ""Duckman"" (1994–1997). Alexander has had an active career on stage, appearing in several Broadway musicals including ""Jerome Robbins' Broadway"" in 1989, for which he won the Tony Award as Best Leading Actor in a Musical."
"George Clooney George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, filmmaker and businessman. He is the recipient of three Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards, one for acting in ""Syriana"" (2006) and the other for co-producing ""Argo"" (2012). In 2018, he was the recipient of the AFI Live Achievement Award, at the age of 57. Clooney made his acting debut on television in 1978, and later gained wide recognition in his role as Dr. Doug Ross on the long-running medical drama ""ER,"" from 1994 to 1999, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. While"
"Jason Alexander Jay Scott Greenspan (born September 23, 1959), known by his stage name Jason Alexander, is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, and director. Alexander is best known for his role as George Costanza in the television series ""Seinfeld"". Other well-known roles include Phillip Stuckey in the film ""Pretty Woman"" (1990) and the title character in the animated series ""Duckman"" (1994–1997). Alexander has had an active career on stage, appearing in several Broadway musicals including ""Jerome Robbins' Broadway"" in 1989, for which he won the Tony Award as Best Leading Actor in a Musical. He appeared in the Los"
"Adrian Truss Adrian Truss (born 30 September, 1953) is a British-Canadian actor, voice actor, comedy writer, playwright and director whose recent work has been as a voice actor for animated children's televisions shows, movies and commercials. Truss was born in London, England. Since moving from England to Canada in 1957, he has starred in movies, plays, and television shows. He is the voice of Jerry in ""Totally Spies"", Dad and Uncle Gizmo in ""Rolie Polie Olie"", Admiral Gill in ""Atomic Betty"", Dragon in ""Jane and the Dragon"", Poe in ""Ruby Gloom"", Armand in ""Camp Lakebottom"" and Pete in """". He"
"Robson Green Robson Golightly Green (born 18 December 1964) is an English actor, angler, singer, songwriter, and presenter. Green portrayed Fusilier Dave Tucker in ""Soldier Soldier"" (1991–95) and Dr. Tony Hill in ""Wire in the Blood"" (2002–08). He also presented ""Extreme Fishing"", ""Extreme Fishing Challenge"", and ""Tales from Northumberland"", as well as playing hospital porter Jimmy Powell in ""BBC"" drama series ""Casualty"". He currently plays Detective Inspector Geordie Keating on ITV's ""Grantchester"". He was one half of the singing duo Robson & Jerome, who had several No. 1 singles in the 1990s. Robson Golightly Green was born on 18 December"
"he successfully kept his true identity secret even from his inner circle of advisors, also that he has a wife who believes him to be a minor civil servant in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. In the original screenplay for the film adaptation of ""Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"", Smiley muses that Control had once told him that Howard Staunton was the greatest chess master Britain had ever produced. ""Staunton"" later turns out to be the name that Control used for the rental of a flat he uses. Control does not appear in the first two George Smiley novels. In"