Cambridge Spies

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show_name = Cambridge Spies


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"Cambridge Spies" was a 2003 four-part BBC television drama concerning the lives of the Cambridge Five from 1934 to the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean to the Soviet Union. It was written by Peter Moffat and directed by Tim Fywell.

Cast

All episodes

* Guy Burgess - Tom Hollander
* Kim Philby - Toby Stephens
* Anthony Blunt - Samuel West
* Donald Maclean - Rupert Penry-Jones

Episode 1

* Oliver Lester - Adam Blackwood
* Rightwing student - Nicholas Burns
* Litzi Friedman, first wife of Kim Philby - Lisa Dillon
* Arthur Quigley - Peter Eyre
* Miriam Block - Jenna Harrison
* Michael Frank - Daniel Hart
* Porter - Colin Higgins
* Otto, the spies' first handler - Marcel Iures
* Julian Bell - Patrick Kennedy
* Jack Hewit - Stuart Laing
* Professor Bruno Klein - Leon Lissek
* Charlie Givens - Simon Woods

Episode 2

* Priest - Alberto Martin Alvarez
* Prosecutor - Philip Anthony
* Policeman - Matthew Bell
* Francis Doble - Nancy Carroll
* Edward Hand - Benedict Cumberbatch
* Lord Raveley - Nicholas Day
* Prince of Wales - Julian Firth
* Fanny Battle - Gillian Goodman
* Magistrate - Geoffrey Harris
* Tea lady - Jeanne Hepple
* Luisa Jiminez - Aleksandra Hertsberg
* Otto, the spies' first handler - Marcel Iures
* Guardsman Rutter - Christopher James
* Sir Michael Boal - Simon Jones
* Julian Bell - Patrick Kennedy
* Jack Hewit - Stuart Laing
* Son - Manuel Munoz
* Norma - Michelle Newell
* First BBC man - Michael Parkhouse
* Marge - Mary Jo Randle
* Second BBC man - Miles Richardson
* Mother - Mireia Rojo
* BBC presenter - Mark Shivas
* Sir Clive Woodham - Simon Masterton Smith
* Woman at bar - Christiane Spivey
* Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother - Imelda Staunton
* David Joy - Freddie Stevenson
* Frank Cliff - John Warnaby

Episode 3

* Captain Nash - Kathryn Akin
* King George VI - Anthony Andrews
* Philip Statman - Jonathan Burn
* British Corporal - Lee Colley
* Henry - Darrell D'Silva
* Drunk Girl - Kate Ford
* Cairncross - Alastair Galbraith
* Boris - Boris Isarov
* Jack Hewit - Stuart Laing
* James Angleton - John Light (actor)
* Captain Clough - Ben Meyjes
* Colonel Winter - Ronald Pickup
* Melinda, wife of Donald Maclean - Anna-Louise Plowman
* Father May - David Savile
* Krivitsky - Joe Searby
* Major Hart - Ian Shaw
* Guy Liddell - Angus Wright (actor)

Episode 4

* 1st diplomat - Charles Cartmell
* Nicole Ivanisovic - Nancy Crane
* Mrs. Angleton, wife of James Jesus Angleton - Emma Davies
* Henry - Darrell D'Silva
* Lord Halifax - James Fox
* General Walter Bedell-Smith - John Guerrasio
* Klaus Fuchs - Garrick Hagon
* Porter - Colin Higgins
* James Angleton - John Light (actor)
* K - Martin McDougall
* 1st wife - Annabel Mullion
* Colonel Winter - Ronald Pickup
* Melinda, wife of Donald Maclean - Anna-Louise Plowman
* Aileen Furse- Lucy Russell
* Fergus Maclean (aged 5) - Thaddeus Small
* The Queen - Imelda Staunton
* Guy Liddell - Angus Wright (actor)
* Dock worker - John Warman (actor)

Cast trivia

*Ronald Pickup and Samuel West also acted with one another in "Foyle's War", series three, episode one
*James Fox has also played Anthony Blunt, in Alan Bennett's play "A Question of Attribution".
*Anna-Louise Plowman, who played Donald Maclean's wife, is Toby Stephens' (who played Kim Philby) wife in real life.
*Tom Hollander, who played Guy Burgess, played Kim Philby in The Company.

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/cambridge_spies_01.shtml The Cambridge Spies] By Phillip Knightley at BBC History
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/spies_cambridge.shtml The Cambridge Spies ] at BBC History
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2174084.stm BBC tackles 'glamorous' spies] at BBC News
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/3012263.stm Cambridge spies were 'flawed'] at BBC News
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/2982221.stm Cambridge Spies] on Newsnight Review
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/reviews/3014447.stm Cambridge Spies: Your views] at BBC News
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/08_august/04/cambridge_spies.shtml Cambridge Spies] at BBC Press Office
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/08_august/04/cambridge_spies.shtml Cambridge Spies VHS and DVD Release] at BBC Press Office