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No. of episodes
  
12

Number of seasons
  
1

8.3/10
IMDb

Screenplay by
  
Troy Kennedy Martin

First episode date
  
5 September 1983

Number of episodes
  
12

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Based on
  
Ace of Spies by Robin Bruce Lockhart

Directed by
  
Martin CampbellJim Goddard

Starring
  
Sam NeillJeananne CrowleyLeo McKernTom BellKenneth CranhamNorman Rodway

Theme music composer
  
Harry RabinowitzDmitri Shostakovich (main theme)

Networks
  
BBC, ITV, PBS, Thames Television

Awards
  
British Academy Television Craft Award for Film Editor

Cast
  
Sam Neill, Leo McKern, Michael Bryant

Similar
  
Peaky Blinders, Upstairs - Downstairs, The Duchess of Duke Stre, Houdini, Edge of Darkness

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Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.

Contents

The mini series is written by Troy Kennedy Martin, and based on the 1967 book Ace of Spies by Robin Bruce Lockhart, whose father R. H. Bruce Lockhart was one of Reilly's fellow spies. Sam Neill stars as the title character. The theme music is the Romance movement from Dmitri Shostakovich’s The Gadfly Suite.

Reilly ace of spies theme


Episodes

There are twelve episodes, each approximately 50 minutes in length (the first episode is near 80 minutes).

Cast

  • Sam Neill as Sidney Reilly
  • Peter Egan as Major Charles Fothergill
  • Ian Charleson as R. H. Bruce Lockhart
  • Norman Rodway as Captain Mansfield Smith-Cumming
  • Tom Bell as Felix Dzerzhinsky
  • David Burke as Joseph Stalin
  • Kenneth Cranham as Vladimir Lenin
  • Leo McKern as Basil Zaharoff
  • Jeananne Crowley as Margaret Callaghan Reilly (wife number one)
  • Donald Morley as Stanley Baldwin
  • John Castle as Count Massino
  • Celia Gregory as Nadina "Nadia" Massino (wife number two)
  • Brian Protheroe as Shasha Grammaticoff
  • Joanne Whalley as Ulla Glass
  • Clive Merrison as Boris Savinkov
  • Laura Davenport as Nelly "Pepita" Burton (wife number three)
  • Joanne Pearce as Caryll Houselander
  • Michael Aldridge as Orlov
  • Victoria Harwood as Natalia
  • Anthony Higgins as Mikhail Trilisser
  • John Rhys-Davies as Tanyatos
  • Sebastian Shaw as Reverend Thomas
  • Bill Nighy as Goschen
  • David Ryall as Herr Glass
  • David Suchet as Inspector Tsientsin
  • Alex McCrindle as Captain MacDougal
  • Alfred Molina as Yakov Blumkin
  • Lindsay Duncan as The Plugger
  • Hugh Fraser as George Hill
  • Diana Hardcastle as Anna
  • Prentis Hancock as Boris Souvorin
  • Geoffrey Whitehead as Count Lubinsky
  • Aubrey Morris as Mendrovovich
  • Phil Smeeton as Chekist
  • Alan Downer as Berzin
  • Alan Bowerman as Lieberman
  • Sara Clee as Fanya "Fanny" Kaplan

    • Awards

    Won 1984 BAFTA TV Award

    Best Film Editors:

  • Edward Marnier
  • Ralph Sheldon

    • Home media

    The series was issued on DVD by A&E Home Video on 22 February 2005.

    References

    Reilly, Ace of Spies Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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