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John le Carré

Highest Rated: 96% The Pigeon Tunnel (2023)

Lowest Rated: 72% Our Kind of Traitor (2016)

Birthday: Oct 19, 1931

Birthplace: Poole, Dorset, England, UK

One of the world's most respected authors of spy fiction, John le Carré was a writer who gave his work added authenticity due to his time spent working for British intelligence agencies. Recruited by MI5 when he was still known as David Cornwell, he was still in college when he began spying on leftist groups that might have Soviet associations. He eventually joined the agency full-time and began moonlighting as a novelist, later transferring to MI6. After the success of his initial espionage books, which included Call for the Dead (1961) and A Murder of Quality (1962), le Carré shifted his career entirely to writing, and it wasn't long before adaptations of his stories hit the silver screen, beginning with director Martin Ritt's lauded "The Spy Who Came In from the Cold" (1965). Reliably producing a novel every few years - sometimes featuring his most famous protagonist, George Smiley, as with Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974) - le Carré remained perennially popular, though his profile was elevated during the new millennium, thanks in part to the acclaimed movies "The Constant Gardener" (2005) and "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" (2011), as well as his continued and consistently exceptional literary output.

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Highest rated movies

96% 69% The Pigeon Tunnel Watchlist 86% 82% The Spy Who Came in From the Cold Watchlist
85% 65% A Most Wanted Man
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84% 65% Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Watchlist
83% 82% The Constant Gardener
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75% 46% The Tailor of Panama Watchlist 72% 50% Our Kind of Traitor Watchlist
John Le Carré - King of Spies
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64% The Deadly Affair
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49% The Looking Glass War
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
96% 69% The Pigeon Tunnel Self - 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Peacock Producer,
Screenwriter
- 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet John Le Carre: An Evening with Geoge Smiley Unknown (Character),
Director
- 2017
72% 50% Our Kind of Traitor Executive Producer $3.2M 2016
85% 65% A Most Wanted Man Executive Producer $17.2M 2014
84% 65% Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Executive Producer $24.1M 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet John Le Carré - King of Spies Unknown (Character) - 2009
83% 82% The Constant Gardener Writer $33.6M 2005
75% 46% The Tailor of Panama Writer,
Screenwriter,
Executive Producer
$13.5M 2001
No Score Yet 49% The Looking Glass War Writer - 1970
No Score Yet 64% The Deadly Affair Writer - 1966
86% 82% The Spy Who Came in From the Cold Writer - 1965

TV

Credit
95% 78% The Little Drummer Girl Executive Producer 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet 60 Minutes Guest 2017-2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Perfect Spy Creator,
Writer
1987
100% 88% Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Writer 1979