REILLY, ACE OF SPIES

'''Reilly, Ace of Spies''' is a 1983 television miniseries, written by Troy Kennedy Martin, and based on the 1967 book ''Ace of Spies'' by Robin Bruce Lockhart. Sam Neill stars as Sidney Reilly. The miniseries was issued on DVD by A&E Home Video on February 22, 2005. As of Summer/Autumn 2007 it is being shown on the ITV3 Channel available on Freeview in the UK.
There are twelve approximately 50 minute episodes (the first episode is lengthier).

Contents

Episodes

Cast

Awards

External links

Episodes

Episode #	Title	Original Airdate
1	An Affair with a Married Woman	September 5, 1983
2	Prelude to War	September 7, 1983
3	The Visiting Fireman	September 14, 1983
4	Anna	September 21, 1983
5	Dreadnoughts and Crosses	September 28, 1983
6	Dreadnoughts and Doublecrosses	October 5, 1983
7	Gambit	October 12, 1983
8	Endgame	October 19, 1983
9	After Moscow	October 26, 1983
10	The Trust	November 2, 1983
11	The Last Journey	November 9, 1983
12	Shutdown	November 16, 1983

Cast

★ Sam Neill as Sidney Reilly

★ Norman Rodway as Cummings (portraying Mansfield Smith-Cumming)

★ Peter Egan as Fothergill (based perhaps on Major Charles Fothergill?)

★ Ian Charleson as R. H. Bruce Lockhart (note: R. H. Bruce Lockhart was the father of the author of the book the miniseries is based on)

★ Leo McKern as Basil Zaharoff

★ Sebastian Shaw as Rev. Mr Thomas

★ Hugh Fraser as as Hill

★ Kenneth Cranham as Vladimir Lenin

★ David Burke as Joseph Stalin

★ Tom Bell as Felix Dzerzhinsky

★ Jeananne Crowley as Margaret (Callaghan) Reilly (wife number one)

★ Celia Gregory as Nadia Massino (wife number two)

★ Laura Davenport as Pepita (Nelly "Pepita" Burton, wife number three)

★ John Castle as Count Massino

★ John Rhys-Davies as Tanyatos

★ David Suchet as Inspector Tsientin

★ Bill Nighy as Goschen

Awards

Won 1984 BAFTA TV Award
Best Film Editor:

★ Ralph Sheldon

★ Edward Marnier

External links

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