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Season 1, Episode 5
The agent is hot on the trail leading to Karla, but first he must make the ultimate sacrifice - cutting off his wife Ann. Dramatisation of John le Carré's spy novel, starring Alec Guinness
subtitles
Espionage
Literary Adaptation
Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Alec Guinness
(Actor)
.. George Smiley
Michael Lonsdale
(Actor)
.. Anton Grigoriev
Barry Foster
(Actor)
.. Saul Enderby
Bill Paterson
(Actor)
.. Lauder Strickland
Michael Byrne
(Actor)
.. Peter Guillam
Bernard Hepton
(Actor)
.. Toby Esterhase
Anthony Bate
(Actor)
.. Oliver Lacon
Rosalie Crutchley
(Actor)
.. Mother Felicity
Tusse Silberg
(Actor)
.. Alexandra
Lucy Fleming
(Actor)
.. Molly Meakin
Julia McCarthy
(Actor)
.. Millie McCraig
Andrew Bradford
(Actor)
.. Ferguson
Richard Leech
(Actor)
.. Uncle Harry
Dudley Sutton
(Actor)
.. Oleg Kirov
Vladek Sheybal
(Actor)
.. Otto Leipzig
Inigo Gallo
(Actor)
.. Franz
Margaret Heery
(Actor)
.. Mrs Tremedda
Lucinda Curtis
(Actor)
.. Sister Beatitude
Victoria Elliott
(Actor)
.. Grigorieva
Hans Peter Blumer
(Actor)
.. Thun cafe proprietor
Marion Garai
(Actor)
.. Litzi Meinertzhagen
Margrit Knecht
(Actor)
.. Dolly Meinertzhagen
Lilo Wicky
(Actor)
.. Thun cafe waitress
Silvia Jost
(Actor)
.. Bernese housewife
Leila Soravia
(Actor)
.. Bernese child
Patricia Bornhauser
(Actor)
.. Girl hiker
Simon Langton
(Director)
John Hopkins
(Dramatised by)
More Information
Did You Know..
Alec Guinness
(Actor)
.. George Smiley
Michael Lonsdale
(Actor)
.. Anton Grigoriev
Barry Foster
(Actor)
.. Saul Enderby
Bill Paterson
(Actor)
.. Lauder Strickland
Born:
June 03, 1945
in
Glasgow
Best Known For:
A number of small-screen TV roles.
Early-life:
Bill Paterson was born on June 3, 1945, in Glasgow. He spent three years as a quantity surveyor before doing a teaching course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He was about to accept an educational role when he was offered a place with the Citizen's Theatre. His big break came at the Edinburgh Festival in The Great Northern Welly Boot Show, a satire by Billy Connolly about striking shipbuilders.
Career:
Paterson's TV debut came in 1977's Bafta-winning Licking Hitler. A year later he appeared in The Vanishing Army and Smiley's People. He went on to feature in such films as The Killing Fields, A Private Function, Defence of the Realm, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Chaplin, Bright Young Things and Truly, Madly, Deeply. Other TV projects include The Singing Detective, Traffik, The Crow Road, Doctor Zhivago, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, and Law & Order: UK. He was also nominated for an Olivier Award for Bertolt Brecht's Schwekyk in the Second World War in 1982 and has done extensive voiceover work on TV and radio.
Quote:
"I don't think acting has ever been my passion, but it's a very nice way of making a living."
Trivia:
Paterson turned down one of the leads in Alien.
Michael Byrne
(Actor)
.. Peter Guillam
Bernard Hepton
(Actor)
.. Toby Esterhase
Anthony Bate
(Actor)
.. Oliver Lacon
(Actor)
.. Lady Ann Smiley
Rosalie Crutchley
(Actor)
.. Mother Felicity
Tusse Silberg
(Actor)
.. Alexandra
Lucy Fleming
(Actor)
.. Molly Meakin
Julia McCarthy
(Actor)
.. Millie McCraig
Andrew Bradford
(Actor)
.. Ferguson
Richard Leech
(Actor)
.. Uncle Harry
Dudley Sutton
(Actor)
.. Oleg Kirov
Vladek Sheybal
(Actor)
.. Otto Leipzig
Inigo Gallo
(Actor)
.. Franz
Margaret Heery
(Actor)
.. Mrs Tremedda
Lucinda Curtis
(Actor)
.. Sister Beatitude
Victoria Elliott
(Actor)
.. Grigorieva
Hans Peter Blumer
(Actor)
.. Thun cafe proprietor
Marion Garai
(Actor)
.. Litzi Meinertzhagen
Margrit Knecht
(Actor)
.. Dolly Meinertzhagen
Lilo Wicky
(Actor)
.. Thun cafe waitress
Silvia Jost
(Actor)
.. Bernese housewife
Leila Soravia
(Actor)
.. Bernese child
Patricia Bornhauser
(Actor)
.. Girl hiker
(Writer)
Simon Langton
(Director)
John Hopkins
(Dramatised by)
