Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a 1974 British spy novel by John le Carré, featuring George Smiley. Smiley is a middle-aged, taciturn, perspicacious intelligence expert in forced retirement. He is recalled to hunt down a Soviet mole in the "Circus", the highest echelon of the Secret Intelligence Service. In keeping with le Carré's work, the narrative begins in medias res with the repatriation of a captured British spy. The background is supplied during the book through a series of flashbacks.

• George Smiley — Alec Guinness
• Peter Guillam — Michael Jayston
• Oliver Lacon — Anthony Bate
• Toby Esterhase — Bernard Hepton
• Bill Haydon — Ian Richardson
• Jim Prideaux — Ian Bannen
• Ricki Tarr — Hywel Bennett
• Percy Alleline — Michael Aldridge
• Roy Bland — Terence Rigby
• Control — Alexander Knox
• Mendel — George Sewell
• Connie Sachs — Beryl Reid
• Jerry Westerby — Joss Ackland
• Ann Smiley — Siân Phillips
• Roddy Martindale — Nigel Stock
• Karla — Patrick Stewart
• Sam Collins — John Standing
• Tufty Thessinger — Thorley Walters
• Molly Purcell — Mandy Cuthbert
• Alwyn — Warren Clarke
• Irina — Susan Kodicek
• Fawn — Alec Sabin
• Boris — Hilary Minster
• Polyakov — George Pravda
• “Jumbo” Roach — Duncan Jones
• Mrs Pope Graham — Pauline Letts
• Headmaster — John Wells
• Lauder Strickland — Frank Moorey
• Bryant — Frank Compton
• Alisa Brimley — Marjorie Hogan
• Paul Skordeno — Joe Praml