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5 unusual facts about The Spy who Came in from the Cold


Hans Larive

He later wrote his memoir Vannacht varen de Hollanders (1950), which was republished translated into English as The Man Who Came In From Colditz (1975) - a pun on the bestselling novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

Peter Guillam

He first appears in Call for the Dead at which time he is working for the Ministry of Defence, and later appears in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder

He was friends with detective writer John le Carré, and while staying in Bonn, Germany, he received a gift directly from Le Carré himself: a popular book titled "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold".

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Control tells Leamas that Smiley had not returned to the Circus after the events of Call for the Dead because of moral qualms about unethical Circus operations.

In Call for the Dead, le Carré's debut novel, a key character is Hans-Dieter Mundt , an assassin of the Abteilung, the East German Secret Service, who is working under diplomatic cover in London.


Call for the Dead

It was directed by Sidney Lumet from a script by Paul Dehn, and starred James Mason as Charles Dobbs, (le Carré had sold the use of the name George Smiley with the rights to The Spy Who Came in from the Cold), Harry Andrews as Mendel, Simone Signoret as Elsa Fennan and Maximilian Schell as Dieter Frey.

Emmet Dalton

His company helped produce films such as The Blue Max, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and The Lion in Winter, all of which were filmed in Ireland.

Kathy Keeton

She appeared in bit parts in four British movies: Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959) (as a tabletop dancer), Expresso Bongo (1959), Too Hot to Handle (1960), and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) (as a stripper).

Steve Plytas

Film roles include: A Night to Remember, The Moon-Spinners, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Theatre of Death, Oh! What a Lovely War, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Revenge of the Pink Panther, Carry On Emmannuelle, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and Batman.


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