Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (BBC Series)
(1979)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Stars: Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston, Anthony Bate, George Sewell, Bernard Hepton
Director: John Irvin
Writer: Arthur Hopcraft, John le Carré
Language: English
Studio: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Duration: 5
Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
DVD Release: August 2011
George Smiley has been retired for about a year when he finds a friend from the circus, his old outfit in British Intelligence sitting in his living room. He is taken to the home of an advisor to the Prime Minister on intelligence matters where he finds evidence that one of the men in the senior ranks of his old agency is a Russian spy. Smiley is asked to find him, without official access to any of the files in the Circus or letting on that anyone is under suspicion. With only a few old friends, his own powers of deduction, and secrecy as weapons, Smiley must unearth the spy who turned him out of the Circus.
Alec Guinness | George Smiley |
Michael Jayston | Peter Guillam |
Anthony Bate | Sir Oliver Lacon |
George Sewell | Mendel |
Bernard Hepton | Toby Esterhase |
Ian Richardson | Bill Haydon |
Hywel Bennett | Ricki Tarr |
Terence Rigby | Roy Bland |
Ian Bannen | Jim Prideaux |
Michael Aldridge | Percy Alleline |
Alec Sabin | Fawn |
Alexander Knox | Control |
Duncan Jones | Roach |
Daniel Beecher | Spikely |
Joss Ackland | Jerry Westerby |
John Wells | Headmaster (2 episodes, 1979) |
Frank Compton | Bryant |
Frank Moorey | Lauda Strickland |
Robert MacNeil | Host (unknown episodes) |
Geoffrey Burgon | Composer |
Tony Pierce-Roberts | Cinematographer |
Chris Wimble | Editor |
Clare Douglas | Editor |
Warren Clarke | Alwyn (1 episode, 1979) |
Thorley Walters | Tufty Thessinger (1 episode, 1979) |
John Standing | Sam Collins (1 episode, 1979) |
Susan Kodicek | Irina (1 episode, 1979) |
Beryl Reid | Connie Sachs (1 episode, 1979) |
Hilary Minster | Boris (1 episode, 1979) |
Mandy Cuthbert | Molly Purcell (1 episode, 1979) |
Pauline Letts | Mrs. Pope-Graham (1 episode, 1979) |
Stephen Earle | Norman (1 episode, 1979) |
Betty Hardy | Headmaster's Mother (1 episode, 1979) |
Patrick Stewart | Karla (1 episode, 1979) |
Nigel Stock | Roddy Martindale (1 episode, 1979) |
Siân Phillips | Ann Smiley (1 episode, 1979) |
Guy Standeven | Flemying-Smith (1 episode, 1979) |
George Pravda | Polyakov (1 episode, 1979) |
Jean Rimmer | Senior Secretary (1 episode, 1979) |
Marjorie Hogan | Alisa Brimley (1 episode, 1979) |
Milos Kirek | Barak (1 episode, 1979) |
Jo Apted | Linda (1 episode, 1979) |
Eugene Lipinski | Czech Guard (1 episode, 1979) |
Joe Praml | Paul Skordeno (1 episode, 1979) |
Brian Hawksley | Bookseller (1 episode, 1979) |
Michael Fish | Himself (archive footage) (1 episode, 1979) |
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Media: DVD
Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0
IMDb: 0080297