Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, "Kim" Philby and Anthony Blunt were recruited as Soviet spies while at Cambridge University in the 1930s. With Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Michael Jenn, Robert Addie. Invited to lunch at Burgess's shabby apartment, she is presented with a strange request. As well as Vassall, who was caught in a honeytrap by the KGB, at least two of the Cambridge Five spy ring, Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt, were gay, while a third, Donald MacLean, was bisexual. Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess (16 April 1911 – 30 August 1963) was a British radio producer, intelligence officer and Foreign Office official.He was part of the Cambridge Five spy ring that passed Western secrets to the Soviets before and during the Cold War. ANDREW LOWNIE is the author of Stalin's Englishman: Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge Spy Ring. The "diplomats" Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean had already fled to Moscow. Guy Burgess is an actor, known for Looking for Langston (1989), Holby City (1999) and Doctors (2000). An Englishman Abroad (John Schlesinger, 1983) 9/10. Guy Burgess, Self: Toffs, Queers and Traitors: The Extraordinary Life of Guy Burgess. Directed by Marek Kanievska. A cache of recently declassified MI5 files, uncovered by Stewart Purvis and Jeff Hulbert in their research for Guy Burgess: The Spy Who Knew Everyone, … His father was an officer in the Royal Navy. An Englishman Abroad (John Schlesinger, 1983) 9/10. He later defected to Russia. Anthony Blunt (Ian Richardson) is an eminent Cambridge-educated art historian who is also working as a spy for the Soviet Union. Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess (16 April 1911 – 30 August 1963) was a British radio producer, intelligence officer and Foreign Office official. I think my fascination for British treason is rivalled only by Alan Bennett's, who arguably wrote the definitive fictions of Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt in his two act play Single Spies (made for television as An Englishman Abroad in 1983 and A Question of Attribution in 1991). An actress, Coral Browne, visits Moscow in 1958 as part of a Shakespearean troupe and meets a mysterious Englishman who turns out to be former spy Guy Burgess now an alcoholic and living under extremely shabby conditions all but forgotten not only by his own country but also by the Russians to whom he sold secrets before defecting. They were Huguenots (Protestants) and moved to England to escape persecution. With Guy Burgess. With interviews with key people who knew Burgess. John le Carré’s novelisation of his experiences of the revelations in the 1950s and the 1960s which exposed the Cambridge Five traitors. Burgess' father had an… A documentary about Guy Burgess, the notorious British double agent. An actress, Coral Browne, visits Moscow in 1958 as part of a Shakespearean troupe and meets a mysterious Englishman who turns out to be former spy Guy Burgess now an alcoholic and living under extremely shabby conditions all but forgotten not only by his own country but also by the Russians to whom he sold secrets before defecting. He first became interested in the Cambridge Spy Ring when, as President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1984, he arranged an international seminar on the subject. The real life Cold War thriller: The story of Guy Burgess ON THE morning of June 7, 1951 the mother of Guy Burgess read the frontpage headline in the … His mother was from a well to do banking family. The Burgess family had been 17th century had been French with the surname Bourgeois. In 1951, two of the suspected spies, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, disappeared from England and resurfaced in Moscow five years later. The word speaks volumes – about who Burgess was, and what he did, to himself, and to others. Guy Burgess was born on April 16, 1911 in Devonport, Devon, England as Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess. He was a charming, clever Etonian, with powerful friends everywhere. Guy Burgess (1 episode, 2009) Burlesque Fairytales (2009) Henry Clark Marple (TV Series 2008) Luke Fitzwilliam (1 episode, 2008) The Last Enemy (TV Mini-Series 2008) Stephen Ezard (5 episodes, 2008) The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) William Carey Stuart: A Life Backwards (TV Movie 2007) Alexander Masters Atonement (2007) Directed by George Carey. In love with double agent Guy Burgess, he helps Burgess get yet another treasonous British agent to safety in Moscow. Not Yet Rated 1 hr TV Movie, Drama, Comedy Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. In 1958 Guy Burgess, the British spy exiled in Moscow, encounters the actress, Coral Browne, on tour from the "old country". Read more TV reviews on theartsdesk Based on the life of the young The correct subtitle for this film is “The Extraordinary Life of Guy Burgess”; the subtitle “Guy Burgess - The Charming Spy” was erroneously used in some BBC advance publicity. Guy Burgess was his usual slovenly mess as he staggered into the Foreign Office in London after another night out on the booze. Posts about Guy Burgess written by nld01. Guy Burgess, Actor: Looking for Langston. GUY BURGESS Burgess was born in 1911. It is August 9th and my journey back to the 1983/84 football season is due to begin with the Charity Shield match between reigning champions Liverpool and FA Cup winners Manchester United on 20th August. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (New York 1974). Anthony Blunt is an eminent Cambridge-educated art historian who is also working as a spy for the Soviet Union. The other, Guy Burgess, was a total surprise. Another Country (a play loosely based on Guy Burgess' life) by Julian Mitchell, and the subsequent film Another Country. Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess (16 April 1911 – 30 August 1963) was a British radio producer, intelligence officer and Foreign Office official. And lovers too - at a time when homosexuality was illegal, Burgess made no … He died on August 30, 1963 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR. This is a poorly done, highly inaccurate movie about Anthony Blunt, one of the infamous Cambridge 5 spies for the Soviet Union. https://historyofspies.com/donald-maclean-and-guy-burgess-escape Guy Burgess was the most important, complex, and fascinating of The Cambridge Spies, brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. Anthony Blunt is an eminent Cambridge-educated art historian who is also working as a spy for the Soviet Union.