George Smiley appeared in either a major or a minor role in John Le Carré's first four novels,
Call for the Dead (1961),
A Murder of Quality (1962),
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), and
The Looking Glass War (1965). In the second novel,
A Murder of Quality, Smiley had even been a much older man, retired, and called in as a consultant in the investigation of a murder at a private boys' school. When Le Carré began his "Karla Trilogy," his 7th, 8th, and 9th novels,
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and
Smiley's People, Le Carré reinvented Smiley, made him younger, and reworked the timeline of his career at "The Circus." A number of actors have played George Smiley in various screen and television adaptation of John Le Carré's novels.
1965, "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold," Rupert Davies.
1966, "The Deadly Affair," James Mason (based on Call for the Dead and with the Smiley character's name changed to Charles Dobbs).
1979, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," and 1982, "Smiley's People," Alec Guiness.
1991, "A Murder of Quality," Denholm Elliott.
2011, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," Gary Oldman.
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