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This is a list of works by or featuring David John Moore Cornwell, a British author better known by his pseudonym
John le Carré . It also includes a list of film, television, and radio adaptations of le Carré's writing.
Novels
Call for the Dead (1961),
OCLC
751303381
A Murder of Quality (1962),
OCLC
777015390
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963),
OCLC
561198531
The Looking Glass War (1965),
OCLC
752987890
A Small Town in Germany (1968),
ISBN
0-143-12260-6
The Naïve and Sentimental Lover (1971),
ISBN
0-143-11975-3
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974),
ISBN
0-143-12093-X
The Honourable Schoolboy (1977),
ISBN
0-143-11973-7
Smiley's People (1979),
ISBN
0-340-99439-8
The Little Drummer Girl (1983),
ISBN
0-143-11974-5
A Perfect Spy (1986),
ISBN
0-143-11976-1
The Russia House (1989),
ISBN
0-743-46466-4
The Secret Pilgrim (1990),
ISBN
0-345-50442-9
The Night Manager (1993),
ISBN
0-345-38576-4
Our Game (1995),
ISBN
0-345-40000-3
The Tailor of Panama (1996),
ISBN
0-345-42043-8
Single & Single (1999),
ISBN
0-743-45806-0
The Constant Gardener (2001),
ISBN
0-743-28720-7
Absolute Friends (2003),
ISBN
0-670-04489-X
The Mission Song (2006),
ISBN
0-340-92199-4
A Most Wanted Man (2008),
ISBN
1-416-59609-7
Our Kind of Traitor (2010),
ISBN
0-143-11972-9
A Delicate Truth (2013),
ISBN
0-143-12531-1
A Legacy of Spies (2017),
ISBN
978-0-735-22511-4
[1]
Agent Running in the Field (2019),
ISBN
1984878875
Silverview (2021),
ISBN
9780241550069 (posthumous publication)
George Smiley omnibus volumes
Short stories
"Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn?" (1967), in Saturday Evening Post, 28 January 1967
"What Ritual is Being Observed Tonight?" (1968), in Saturday Evening Post , 2 November 1968
[2]
"The Writer and the Horse" (published in the US as "A Writer and A Gentleman") (1968), in The
Savile Club Centenary Magazine and later in
The Argosy and
The Saturday Review (November 30, 1968)
[3]
"The King Who Never Spoke" (2009), in
Ox-Tales : Fire , 2 July 2009
[4]
Non-fiction
Film
Screenplays
Source(s):
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Executive producer
Source(s):
[8]
Actor
Source(s):
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Adaptations
After many years of working with various producers who made film adaptations of his novels, two of Cornwell's sons, Simon and Stephen, founded the production company The Ink Factory in 2010. This was to produce adaptations of his works as well as other film productions. The Ink Factory has produced the films
A Most Wanted Man and
Our Kind of Traitor , and the TV series
The Night Manager and
The Little Drummer Girl .
[14]
Film
Source(s):
[15]
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), directed by
Martin Ritt , with
Richard Burton as the protagonist, Alec Leamas
The Deadly Affair (1967), an adaptation of
Call for the Dead , directed by
Sidney Lumet , with
James Mason as Charles Dobbs (George Smiley in the novel)
The Looking Glass War (1970), directed by
Frank Pierson , with
Anthony Hopkins as Avery,
Christopher Jones as Leiser, and Sir
Ralph Richardson as LeClerc
The Little Drummer Girl (1984), directed by
George Roy Hill , with
Diane Keaton as Charlie
The Russia House (1990), directed by
Fred Schepisi , with
Sean Connery as Barley Blair
The Tailor of Panama (2001), directed by
John Boorman , with
Pierce Brosnan as Andy Osnard, a disgraced spy, and
Geoffrey Rush as the emigre English tailor Harry Pendel
The Constant Gardener (2005), directed by
Fernando Meirelles , with
Ralph Fiennes as Justin Quayle, set in the
slums in
Kibera and
Loiyangalani , Kenya; the poverty so affected the film crew that they established the
Constant Gardener Trust to provide basic education to those areas (John le Carré was a patron of the charity)
[16]
[17]
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), directed by
Tomas Alfredson and starring
Gary Oldman as George Smiley
A Most Wanted Man (2014), directed by
Anton Corbijn and starring
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Our Kind of Traitor (2016), directed by
Susanna White and starring
Ewan McGregor
Radio
The Russia House (1994),
BBC Radio 4 , featuring
Tom Baker as Barley Blair
[18]
The Complete Smiley (2009–2010) BBC Radio 4, an eight-part radio-play series, based on the novels featuring George Smiley, commencing with Call for the Dead , broadcast on 23 May 2009, with
Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley, and concluding with The Secret Pilgrim in June 2010
[19]
A Delicate Truth (May 2013), BBC Radio 4's
Book at Bedtime , recorded by
Damian Lewis
[20]
Abridged excerpts from The Pigeon Tunnel , broadcast as BBC Radio 4's
Book of the Week , commencing on 12 September 2016
[21]
Television
Source(s):
[15]
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979),
BBC seven-part television series, with
Alec Guinness as George Smiley
Smiley's People (1982), BBC television series, with
Alec Guinness as George Smiley
A Perfect Spy (1987), BBC television adaptation directed by Peter Smith, with
Peter Egan as Magnus Pym and
Ray McAnally as Rick
A Murder of Quality (1991), Thames Television adaptation directed by
Gavin Millar , with
Denholm Elliott as George Smiley and
Joss Ackland as Terence Fielding
The Night Manager (2016), BBC and
AMC series, adapted by screenwriter
David Farr and directed by
Susanne Bier , with
Tom Hiddleston as Jonathan Pine and
Hugh Laurie as Richard Onslow Roper
The Little Drummer Girl (2018), BBC and
AMC series, directed by
Park Chan-wook , with
Florence Pugh as Charlie Ross,
Michael Shannon as Martin Kurtz, and
Alexander Skarsgård as Gadi Becker.
[22]
References
^ Kean, Danuta (7 March 2017).
"George Smiley to return in new John le Carré novel, A Legacy of Spies" . The Guardian .
Archived from the original on 8 March 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017 .
^
"Famous Contributors: John le Carré" . The Saturday Evening Post . 31 October 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2020 .
^
"Manuscript Auction" . Retrieved 30 August 2021 .
^
"Ox-Tales:Fire | Babel | TinyCat" . Babel . Retrieved 14 December 2020 .
^ Le Carré, John; Buford, Bill (1991). The Unbearable Peace . Cambridge:
Granta Publications .
ISBN
978-0-14-015204-3 .
OCLC
25847433 .
^ Robert McCrum (9 March 2014).
"A Spy Among Friends Review: Kim Philby's Treacherous Friendship with Nicholas Elliot" .
The Observer .
Archived from the original on 24 March 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2014 .
^
Penguin Random House to Publish John le Carré's Memoir in September 2016 , Le Carré Productions, 9 October 2015, archived from
the original on 2 March 2016, retrieved 21 February 2016
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b
c
"John le Carré" . BFI . Archived from
the original on 21 November 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2020 .
^
"The Tailor of Panama (2001)" . BFI . Archived from
the original on September 13, 2017. Retrieved 14 December 2020 .
^
" 'The Little Drummer Girl': John Le Carre makes appearance in second adaptation of his 1983 novel" . meaww.com . Retrieved 14 December 2020 .
^
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)" . BFI . Archived from
the original on March 10, 2017. Retrieved 14 December 2020 .
^ Foster, Patrick (11 October 2016).
" 'Very naughty' John le Carre tried to beef up cameo role in The Night Manager" . The Telegraph .
ISSN
0307-1235 . Retrieved 14 December 2020 .
^ Hoffman, Jordan.
"Everything You Need to Know About AMC's Spy Miniseries 'The Little Drummer Girl' " . Thrillist . Retrieved 14 December 2020 .
^ Macnab, Geoffrey (30 October 2018).
"The Brit 50: The Ink Factory" .
Screen International .
Archived from the original on 14 December 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-14 .
^
a
b
"John le Carré" . BFI . Archived from
the original on 21 November 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2020 .
^ Nigel Eltringham (2013).
Framing Africa: Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema . Berghahn Books. pp. 83–85.
ISBN
9781782380740 .
Archived from the original on 14 December 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2019 .
^ Julian Friedland (2009).
Doing Well and Good: The Human Face of the New Capitalism . IAP. p. 205.
ISBN
9781607521761 .
Archived from the original on 14 December 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2019 .
^
"The Russia House" . The Radio Times . No. 3680. 21 July 1994. p. 103.
ISSN
0033-8060 .
Archived from the original on 14 December 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2020 .
^
"The Complete Smiley" . BBC Radio 4.
Archived from the original on 28 May 2009. Retrieved 23 May 2009 .
^
"John le Carre: 'My Frustration with Britain' " . BBC News . 13 May 2013.
Archived from the original on 9 June 2013. Retrieved 13 May 2013 .
^
"The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life by John le Carre, Book of the Week" . BBC Radio 4.
Archived from the original on 24 September 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2019 .
^ Patterson, Troy.
" "The Little Drummer Girl," Reviewed: A Fever Dream of Glamorous Espionage" . The New Yorker .
Archived from the original on 1 January 2020. Retrieved 14 December 2020 .
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