Cambridge Spies
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Cambridge Spies was a 2003 four-part BBC television drama concerning the lives of the Cambridge Five from 1934 to the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean to the Soviet Union.
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[edit] Cast
[edit] All episodes
- Guy Burgess - Tom Hollander
- Kim Philby - Toby Stephens
- Anthony Blunt - Samuel West
- Donald Maclean - Rupert Penry-Jones
[edit] Episode 1
- Oliver Lester - Adam Blackwood
- Rightwing student - Nicholas Burns
- Litzi Friedman, first wife of Kim Philby - Lisa Dillon
- Arthur Quigley - Peter Eyre
- Miriam Block - Jenna Harrison
- Michael Frank - Daniel Hart
- Porter - Colin Higgins
- Otto, the spies' first handler - Marcel Iures
- Julian Bell - Patrick Kennedy
- Jack Hewit - Stuart Laing
- Professor Bruno Klein - Leon Lissek
- Charlie Givens - Simon Woods
[edit] Episode 2
- Priest - Alberto Martin Alvarez
- Prosecutor - Philip Anthony
- Policeman - Matthew Bell (actor)
- Francis Doble - Nancy Carroll
- Edward Hand - Benedict Cumberbatch
- Lord Raveley - Nicholas Day
- Prince of Wales - Julian Firth
- Fanny Battle - Gillian Goodman
- Magistrate - Geoffrey Harris
- Tea lady - Jeanne Hepple
- Luisa Jiminez - Aleksandra Hertsberg
- Otto, the spies' first handler - Marcel Iures
- Guardsman Rutter - Christopher James
- Sir Michael Boal - Simon Jones (actor)
- Julian Bell - Patrick Kennedy (British actor)
- Jack Hewit - Stuart Laing
- Son - Manuel Munoz
- Norma - Michelle Newell
- First BBC man - Michael Parkhouse
- Marge - Mary Jo Randle
- Second BBC man - Miles Richardson
- Mother - Mireia Rojo
- BBC presenter - Mark Shivas
- Sir Clive Woodham - Simon Masterton Smith
- Woman at bar - Christiane Spivey
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother - Imelda Staunton
- David Joy - Freddie Stevenson
- Frank Cliff - John Warnaby
[edit] Episode 3
- Captain Nash - Kathryn Akin
- King George VI - Anthony Andrews
- Philip Statman - Jonathan Burn
- British Corporal - Lee Colley
- Henry - Darrell D'Silva
- Drunk Girl - Kate Ford
- Cairncross - Alastair Galbraith
- Boris - Boris Isarov
- Jack Hewit - Stuart Laing
- James Angleton - John Light (actor)
- Captain Clough - Ben Meyjes
- Colonel Winter - Ronald Pickup
- Melinda, wife of Donald Maclean - Anna-Louise Plowman
- Father May - David Savile
- Krivitsky - Joe Searby
- Major Hart - Ian Shaw
- Guy Liddell - Angus Wright (actor)
[edit] Episode 4
- 1st diplomat - Charles Cartmell
- Nicole Ivanisovic - Nancy Crane
- Mrs. Angleton, wife of James Jesus Angleton - Emma Davies
- Henry - Darrell D'Silva
- Lord Halifax - James Fox
- General Walter Bedell-Smith - John Guerrasio
- Klaus Fuchs - Garrick Hagon
- Porter - Colin Higgins
- James Angleton - John Light (actor)
- K - Martin McDougall
- 1st wife - Annabel Mullion
- Colonel Winter - Ronald Pickup
- Melinda, wife of Donald Maclean - Anna-Louise Plowman
- Aileen Furse - Lucy Russell
- Fergus Maclean (aged 5) - Thaddeus Small
- The Queen - Imelda Staunton
- Guy Liddell - Angus Wright (actor)
- Dock worker - John Warman (actor)
[edit] Non actor credits
- Writer: Peter Moffatt
- Directed by Tim Fywell
Produced by
- Alison Gee .... co-producer
- Laura Mackie .... executive producer
- Gareth Neame .... executive producer
- Mark Shivas .... producer
- Sally Woodward Gentle .... executive producer
- Music - John Lunn
[edit] Cast trivia
- Ronald Pickup and Sam West also acted with one another in Foyle's War, series three, episode one
- James Fox has also played Anthony Blunt, in Alan Bennett's play A Question of Attribution, also on the Cambridge Five
- Anna-Louise Plowman, who played Donald Maclean's wife, is Toby Stephens' (who played Kim Philby) wife in real life.
- Tom Hollander, who played Guy Burgess, played Kim Philby in The Company.
