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Your favourite screen spy
Sep 9th, 2017 at 2:51pm
 
1. Richard Burton as Alec Leamas, the Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

His old raincoat, which would hardly keep out the London cold & drizzle, is his signature. The dispirited, morose, worn-out cold war agent who's tired of it all.

2. Alec Guiness as George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
A quiet, modest man, but you never quite knew what ruthlessness might lie behind that bland face and those spectacles.
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Reply #1 - Sep 9th, 2017 at 10:08pm
 
Hmmm  big screen or small screen?

Spies eh.....

Richard Burton... as Major Smith in Where Eagles Dare.
John Voight...  as Peter Miller in The Odessa File.
Patrick McGoohan... as John Drake in Dangerman.  TV
Patrick McGoohan... as David Jones in Ice Station Zebra.
Geena Davis... as Samantha Caine in The Long Kiss Goodnight.
Sean Connery... as John Mason in The Rock.
Daniel Craig... as James Bond in Spectre.
Robert Redford...  as Joe Turner in Three Days Of The Condor.

I'm sure there are more I like but some don't quite fit spies like N by NW and The 39 Steps, etc.
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Reply #2 - Sep 9th, 2017 at 10:10pm
 
Ben Turpin in "Million Dollar Legs".
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Reply #3 - Sep 10th, 2017 at 11:36am
 
Fans of John le Carre's spy novels & films (both the ones I mentioned above) should not miss this interview with him about his new and final George Smiley novel:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05fd974

But hurry, you'll only get it for the next couple of days. He talks about his time in MI6 & Kim Philby and all that stuff. Apparently there were 13 not 4 known Cambridge spies.
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Reply #4 - Sep 10th, 2017 at 12:34pm
 
Wolseley wrote on Sep 9th, 2017 at 10:10pm:
Ben Turpin in "Million Dollar Legs".


Now that's what I call an interesting proposition. I have not seen the movie, but I will most certainly find it. Any movie with WC Fields in it "can't be all bad."
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Reply #5 - Sep 11th, 2017 at 11:12am
 
Yes, I thought The Odessa File was pretty good and John Voight did the part well.

Whatever happened to John Voight?
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Reply #6 - Sep 11th, 2017 at 8:25pm
 
bogarde73 wrote on Sep 11th, 2017 at 11:12am:
Yes, I thought The Odessa File was pretty good and John Voight did the part well.

Whatever happened to John Voight?

He's still around made lots of movies fathered Angelina Jolie.
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Reply #7 - Sep 11th, 2017 at 8:31pm
 
Sean Connery in Goldfinger.

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Reply #8 - Sep 11th, 2017 at 10:30pm
 
Grendel wrote on Sep 9th, 2017 at 10:08pm:
Hmmm  big screen or small screen?

Spies eh.....

Richard Burton... as Major Smith in Where Eagles Dare.  My favourite spy.
Jon Voight...  as Peter Miller in The Odessa File.
Patrick McGoohan... as John Drake in Dangerman.  TV
Patrick McGoohan... as David Jones in Ice Station Zebra.
Geena Davis... as Samantha Caine in The Long Kiss Goodnight.
Sean Connery... as John Mason in The Rock.
Daniel Craig... as James Bond in Spectre.
Robert Redford...  as Joe Turner in Three Days Of The Condor.

I'm sure there are more I like but some don't quite fit spies like N by NW and The 39 Steps, etc.

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Reply #9 - Sep 12th, 2017 at 7:24am
 
This is an oldie.

James Mason in The Five Fingers (I think that was the title)
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Reply #10 - Sep 12th, 2017 at 7:26am
 
Grendel wrote on Sep 11th, 2017 at 8:25pm:
bogarde73 wrote on Sep 11th, 2017 at 11:12am:
Yes, I thought The Odessa File was pretty good and John Voight did the part well.

Whatever happened to John Voight?

He's still around made lots of movies fathered Angelina Jolie.


I thought he must have fallen on hard times if he sold his car to George Costanza.
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Reply #11 - Sep 13th, 2017 at 8:55am
 
Nah lots of TV and Movies he was in National treasure and Lara Croft too recently won some award for a part in a TV show.  Think he was in Enemy of the State.  Any way his bio is on IMDB.

Love the Odessa File.
But Burton's Major Smith is the best spy for me.
Where Eagles Dare Clint Eastwood also in it.
The Eiger Sanction is another movie I left off Eastwood is Jonathan Hemlock in it.
Wished they'd made the sequel to Firefox that would have been great.
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