DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
- Traitor (1971) TV film. Fictionalised account of composite Philby/Burgess/Maclean character defected to Moscow. Written by Dennis Potter, directed by Alan Bridges, with John Le Mesurier.
- Philby, Burgess And Maclean (1977) TV film. Dramatisation of Philby tipping off Burgess and escaping to Moscow with Maclean. Written by Ian Curteis, directed by Gordon Flemyng, with Anthony Bate, Derek Jacobi and Michael Culver.
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) TV series. Based on John Le Carré novel about the hunt for a Philby-esque mole within British intelligence. Written by Arthur Hopcraft, directed by John Irvin, with Ian Richardson and Alec Guinness.
- Blade On The Feather (1980) TV film. Heavily fictionalised account of Soviet penetration of British intelligence with a composite Philby.Burgess/Maclean/Blunt character. Written by Dennis Potter, directed by Richard Loncraine, with Donald Pleasance and Tom Conti.
- The Jigsaw Man (1983) Film, based on a novel by Dorothea Bennett. Fictionalised account of a Soviet agent in British intelligence secreting returning to the UK following his initial defection, with main character based on Philby. Written by Jo Eisinger, directed by Terence Young, with Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier.
- An Englishman Abroad (1983) TV film, based on a play. Fictionalised account of actress Coral Browne visiting Burgess in Moscow following his defection. Written by Alan Bennett, directed by John Schlesinger, with Coral Browne and Alan Bates.
- Another Country (1984) Film, based on a play. Fictionalised account of the public school days of Burgess. Written by Julian Mitchell, directed by Marek Kanievska, with Rupert Everett and Colin Firth.
- Blunt: The Fourth Man (1987) TV film. Dramatisation of Blunt's involvement in the flight of Burgess and Maclean. Written by Robin Chapman, directed by John Glenister, with Ian Richardson, plus Anthony Hopkins as Burgess, Michael McStay as Maclean, Michael Williams as Goronwy Rees and Geoffrey Chater as Guy Liddell.
- A Question of Attribution (1991) TV film. Dramatisation of the MI5 interviews with Blunt prior to his public unmasking years, with subsidiary plot point about Vermeer forger Hans van Meegeren (cf The Last Vermeer, with Guy Pearce and Claes Bang). Written by Alan Bennett, directed by John Schlesinger, with James Fox and David Calder
- Cambridge Spies (2003) TV series. Dramatisation of the recruitment and espionage of Philby, Burgess, Maclean and Blunt, up until the flight to Moscow. Written by Peter Moffatt, directed by Tim Fywell, with Toby Stephens, Tom Hollander, Rupert Penry-Jones and Samuel West, plus Angus Wright as Guy Liddell, Alastair Galbraith as John Cairncross and John Light as James Jesus Angleton.
- A Different Loyalty (2004) Film. Heavily fictionalised account of a Philby-esque mole in British intelligence working in Beirut. Written by Jim Piddock, directed by Marek Kanievska, with Rupert Everett.
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) Film. Based on John Le Carré novel about the hunt for a Philby-esque mole within British intelligence. Written by Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan, directed by Tomas Alfredson, with Gary Oldman and Colin Firth.
- The Imitation Game (2014) Film, based on a non-fiction book by Andrew Hodges. Dramatisation of computing pioneer Alan Turing, with peripheral Cambridge spy ring elements. Written by Graham Moore, directed by Morten Tyldum
- A Spy Among Friends (2022) TV series based on non-fiction book by Ben Macintyre. Fictionalised dramatisation of interrogation of Philby in Beirut by MI6 officer Nicholas Elliott and subsequent MI5 investigation. Written by Alex Cary, directed by Nick Murphy, with Guy Pearce, Damian Lewis and Anna Maxwell Martin, plus Ade Edmondson as Roger Hollis, Rick Warden as Arthur Martin, Stephen Kunken as James Jesus Angleton, Anastasia Hille as Flora Solomon, Nicholas Rowe as Blunt, Thomas Arnold as Burgess and Daniel Lapaine as Maclean.
