Matthew Ellard
Illuminator
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Very sad news.
Here is the BBC page.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55297558
Fans of movies taken from his novels will always think of Sir Alec Guiness as George Smiley and more recently Gary Oldman. However Smiley was also played in earlier films by Rupert Davies (The Spy who came from the cold) and Denholm Elliott ( A Murder of Quality.) Indeed, Christian Bale, was still a young actor in A Murder of Quality, and good on Patrick Stewart, for playing Karla, in a non speaking role in Smiley's People. .
It would seem from facts about his life, that his spy novel "A Perfect Spy" was a sort of autobiography.
Here is the BBC page.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55297558
Fans of movies taken from his novels will always think of Sir Alec Guiness as George Smiley and more recently Gary Oldman. However Smiley was also played in earlier films by Rupert Davies (The Spy who came from the cold) and Denholm Elliott ( A Murder of Quality.) Indeed, Christian Bale, was still a young actor in A Murder of Quality, and good on Patrick Stewart, for playing Karla, in a non speaking role in Smiley's People. .
It would seem from facts about his life, that his spy novel "A Perfect Spy" was a sort of autobiography.
