Cambridge Spies
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Cambridge Spies | |
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Genre | Historical drama |
Written by | Peter Moffat |
Directed by | Tim Fywell |
Starring | Tom Hollander Toby Stephens Samuel West Rupert Penry-Jones |
Composer(s) | John Lunn |
Country of origin | UK |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of episodes | 4 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Laura Mackie Gareth Neame Sally Woodward Gentle |
Producer(s) | Mark Shivas |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Distributor | BBC |
Release | |
Original network | BBC Two |
Picture format | 16:9 |
Original release | 9 May – 30 May 2003 |
Cambridge Spies is a 2003 four-part BBC television drama concerning the lives of the best-known quartet of the Cambridge Five Soviet spies from 1934 to the 1951 defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean to the Soviet Union. It was written by Peter Moffat and directed by Tim Fywell.
Cast
- Guy Burgess - Tom Hollander
- Kim Philby - Toby Stephens
- Anthony Blunt - Samuel West
- Donald Maclean - Rupert Penry-Jones
- Litzi Friedman, first wife of Kim Philby - Lisa Dillon
- Julian Bell - Patrick Kennedy
- Prince of Wales - Julian Firth
- King George VI - Anthony Andrews
- Guy Liddell - Angus Wright
- John Cairncross - Alastair Galbraith
- James Angleton - John Light
- Colonel Winter - Ronald Pickup
- Melinda, wife of Donald Maclean - Anna-Louise Plowman
- Father May - David Savile
- Lord Halifax - James Fox
- Klaus Fuchs - Garrick Hagon
- Charlie Givens - Simon Woods
- Edward Hand - Benedict Cumberbatch
- Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother - Imelda Staunton
- Arnold Deutsch - Marcel Iureș
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Cambridge Spies at IMDb
- The Cambridge Spies by Phillip Knightley at BBC History
- The Cambridge Spies at BBC History
- BBC tackles 'glamorous' spies at BBC News
- Cambridge spies were 'flawed' at BBC News
- Cambridge Spies on Newsnight Review
- Cambridge Spies: Your views at BBC News
- Cambridge Spies at BBC Press Office
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