His less fantastic rivals include Le Carre's George Smiley and Harry Palmer as played by Michael Caine.

Le Carré's middle-class George Smiley is a middle-aged spy burdened with a faithless, upper-class wife who publicly cuckolds him for sport.

Years after the success of his Cold War spy novels, novelist and Lincoln graduate John le Carré, himself a one-time spy, revealed that fictional spymaster George Smiley was partly modelled on former Lincoln rector Vivian H. H. Green.

In Call for the Dead, Le Carré's debut novel, a key character is Hans-Dieter Mundt ( nicknamed " Blondie "), an assassin of the Abteilung, the East German Secret Service, who is working under diplomatic cover in London when uncovered by Circus agents George Smiley and Peter Guillam.

George Smiley and his former assistant Peter Guillam brief Leamas for his crucial mission.

Meanwhile, in England, George Smiley and Peter Guillam appear at Liz Gold's apartment claiming to be friends of Alec, question her about him, and offer her financial help.

Although not wanting to testify against Alec Leamas, she admits that George Smiley paid for her apartment lease after visiting her and that she had promised Leamas to not look for him when he disappeared.

The fake bank account payments were real, and Hans-Dieter Mundt is a double agent reporting to George Smiley and Peter Guillam.

* George Smiley: British spy, supposedly retired.

She also appeared opposite then-husband Peter O ' Toole and Richard Burton in Becket ( 1964 ); as Ursula Mossbank in the musical film Goodbye, Mr. Chips ( 1969 ), again starring O ' Toole ; once more opposite O ' Toole in Murphy's War ( 1971 ); as Emmeline Pankhurst in the TV mini-series Shoulder to Shoulder ( 1974 ); as Lady Ann, the unfaithful wife of Alec Guinness's character George Smiley, in the BBC1 espionage dramas Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ( 1979 ) and Smiley's People ( 1982 ), adapted from John le Carré's novels of the same names ; in Nijinsky ( 1980 ); and as the queen Cassiopeia in Clash of the Titans ( 1981 ).

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The bureaucratic infighting is reminiscent of John le Carré's George Smiley novels.

George Smiley is a fictional character created by John le Carré.

George Smiley, on the other hand, is quiet, mild-mannered and not at all athletic.

In 1995, le Carré said that the character of George Smiley was inspired by his one-time Lincoln College, Oxford tutor, the former Rev.

In 1999, le Carré confirmed that Bingham was also an inspiration for Smiley, and in 2000 went further, writing in an introduction to a reissue of one of Bingham's novels that " He had been one of two men who had gone into the making of George Smiley.

* George Cole played Smiley in BBC Radio versions of both Call for the Dead ( 1978 ) and A Murder of Quality ( 1981 ).

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Featuring British master-spy George Smiley, it is the third and final novel of the " Karla Trilogy ", following Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Honourable Schoolboy.

George Smiley is called out from retirement for the last time to investigate the death of one of his old agents, a former Soviet General, titular head of an Estonian

Smiley learns the General had discovered information that leads to a final confrontation with George Smiley's nemesis, the Soviet spymaster Karla.

Big Brother is a fictional character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

As well as the guest vocalists from the singles, the album featured the fictional George Jetson and Mark E Smith.

The World State in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Airstrip One in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four are both fictional examples of command economies, albeit with diametrically opposed aims: The former is a consumer economy designed to engender productivity while the latter is a shortage economy designed as an agent of totalitarian social control.

A point of interest is that it is probably Daniel Jones ( and not as is often thought Henry Sweet ) who provided George Bernard Shaw with the basis for his fictional character Henry Higgins in " Pygmalion ".

The 2006 film The Death of a President was filmed in the style of a television documentary, filmed years after the event, to tell the story of the fictional assassination of U. S. President George W. Bush, and the aftermath, to realistic effect.

* George Orwell's dystopian novel " Nineteen Eighty-Four " includes selections from a banned fictional book The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, which citizens of Oceania are forbidden to read.

The fictional world in which the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin take place is divided into several continents.

One of George R. R. Martin's aims with the Ice and Fire series was to retell the history of the fictional world, since he feels that past events from dozens or even thousands of years ago still influence the present.

* The Quiet Isle, a location in the fictional series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, has many traits resembling Lindisfarne, including tidal based access and a monastic community.

In August 2005, Moore guest-starred as Christine St. George, a high-strung host of a fictional TV show on three episodes of Fox sitcom That ' 70s Show.

A well-known fictional oligarchy is represented by the Party in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

* George O ' Malley, a fictional character from Grey's Anatomy, nicknamed 007

Slovik also appears in Nick Arvin's 2005 novel Articles of War, in which the fictional protagonist, Private George ( Heck ) Tilson, is one of the members of Slovik's firing squad.

* Formosa may also refer to a fictional country located on the island of Taiwan, but whose culture was invented by George Psalmanazar as a hoax.

Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser ( 1925 – 2008 ), but based on the character " Flashman " in Tom Brown's Schooldays ( 1857 ), a semi-autobiographical work by Thomas Hughes ( 1822 – 1896 ).

Burnham's real-life adventures also heavily influenced H. Rider Haggard who created the fictional Allan Quatermain adventurer, a character who later was transformed by George Lucus into Indiana Jones ..

Directed by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, the motion picture was the fourth film in the Indiana Jones series that dealt with the eponymous fictional archaeologist and university professor.

In the fictional biography Jeeves: A Gentleman's Personal Gentleman by Northcote Parkinson, Bertie comes into the title of Lord Yaxley upon the death of his uncle George Wooster, marries Bobbie Wickham and makes Jeeves the landlord of the Angler's Rest pub, which is on the Yaxley estate.

A fictional universe can be contained in a single work, as in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four or Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, or in serialized, series-based, open-ended or round robin-style fiction.

In Helen of Troy, a novel by Margaret George, Gelanor is a fictional character who acts as an advisor to the Spartans under Menelaus.

* George Orwell's novel, 1984, portrays a fictional totalitarian surveillance society which has a very simple ( by today's standards ) mass surveillance system consisting of human operatives, informants, and two-way " telescreens " in people's homes.

In a long and varied career, which began with an advert for Mackeson Stout and a bit part in Dad's Army, his most famous roles were as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary of the fictional Department of Administrative Affairs in the television series Yes Minister ( and Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister ), for which he won four BAFTA awards, and as King George III in Alan Bennett's stage play The Madness of George III ( Olivier Award ) and the film version entitled The Madness of King George, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

TWA ( Trans World Airlines, an actual airline of the time ) chief mechanic at Lincoln, Joe Patroni ( George Kennedy ) is enlisted by Bakersfeld to lead the efforts to move the stuck aircraft, another Boeing 707, even though it belongs to a different airline, TGA ( Trans Global Airlines, a fictional airline and the parent company of the film's Golden Argosy jet ) Patroni, who is " taxi-qualified " on Boeing 707s, is trying to move the stuck aircraft in time for Demerest's damaged aircraft to land.