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TV series / 1983
Reilly: Ace of Spies
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatising 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.
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Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatising 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.
Cast
Sam NeillSidney Reilly
Michael BryantNarrator (voice)
Norman RodwayCummings
Tom BellDzerzhinsky
Hugh FraserHill
Clive MerrisonSavinkov
Peter EganFothergill
Leo McKernZaharov
Jeananne CrowleyMargaret
Brian ProtheroeGrammaticoff
Malcolm TerrisSykes
Celia GregoryNadia Massino · Nadia
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Kenneth CranhamLenin
Ian CharlesonLockhart
Bogdan KominowskiPeters
Frances BarberDagmara
Laura DavenportPepita
Anthony HigginsTrilisser
John CastleCount Massino
Aubrey MorrisMendrovovich
John RapleyManservant · Servant
Jonathan AdamsBritish Ambassador
Prentis HancockSouvorin
Kenteas BrinePanina
John MalcolmSchroeder
Norman ComerThomas
Tony WreddenWaiter
Michael AldridgeOrlov
Bill WallisBonch-Brouevich
Jack KlaffKarachan
Jan ChappellMarie Friede
Barry StokesCromie
Alan DownerBerzin
Judy ElringtonElena Petrovna
Anna NyghMoura
Victoria HarwoodNatalia
Frank BakerSmidchen
Warren ClarkeYakushev
Joanne PearceCaryll Houselander
David BurkeStalin
John BluthalKrassin
Michael AngelisArtuzov
John Rhys-DaviesTanyatos
Sebastian ShawReverend Thomas
Denis HolmesAdmiral Fisher
John Hart DykePomeroy
John MoncktonElliott
Howard Lew LewisRowhedge
Vic TablianFirsig
Michele CopseyRose
Benjamin FeitelsonSergeant Kott
Barbara AshcroftMrs. 'A'
Jonathan StewardHarringay
Dennis ChinneryMarkstein
John LudlowDetective
Vanda GodsellWoman
John OwensReporter
Angelo GibsonReporter
Susie FairfaxWorthing
David SuchetInspector Tsientsin
Derek NewarkGeneral Stoessel
Joris StuyckGreenberg
Paul WilliamsonEricson
Alex McCrindleMacdougal
Richard ReesCaptain Tanaka
Richard IresonTyrkov
Richard RidingsVanderberg
David BelcherPort Official
Jacqueline ChanMinna
Vincent WongCaptain
Andy HoLee Pin
Ric YoungSergeant
Anthony ChinnLieutenant
Nigel BennettPort Official's Assistant
David HaymanVon Jaegar
Bill NighyGoschen
David RyallGlass
Joanne WhalleyUlla
Bernard GallagherHuberhoff
Paul HumpoletzVon Der Helle
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