Len Deighton
Len Deighton was a thriller writer best known for his 1962 novel The Ipcress File.
Works
Wogan
Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.
Release Date1982-05-04
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
Legendary British actor Michael Caine, who began his brilliant career on stage during the 1950s, talks about his private life, his work in film and the books he has written.
Release Date2023-03-14
Charactersd Self - Writer (archive footage)
Vote Count6
The Case of Sherlock Holmes
Tim Piggot-Smith investigates the famous sleuth of 221b Baker Street.
Release Date1987-12-10
Charactersd Self
The Ipcress File
As the Cold War rages, ex-smuggler turned reluctant spy Harry Palmer finds himself at the centre of a dangerous undercover mission, on which he must use his links to find a missing British nuclear scientist.
Release Date2022-03-06
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count6
Vote Count72
SS-GB
Adapted from Len Deighton’s 1978 alternate history novel. A British detective investigates a murder in German-occupied Britain during World War II.
Release Date2017-02-19
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count5
Vote Count65
Game, Set, and Match
Focuses on Bernard Samson (Ian Holm), beginning with his search for the "mole" that threatens the Brahms Network in East Germany. Samson is sent to Berlin to bring out a Brahms agent. He is then sent to Mexico to try to persuade a KGB major (Gottfried John) to defect, using his childhood friend Verner Volkmann's wife Zena as bait. After it appears another traitor is working at London Central, Samson himself becomes one of the prime suspects.
Release Date1988-10-03
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count13
Vote Count5
The Ipcress File
Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the heart of the secret service.
Release Date1965-03-18
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count344
Armchair Theatre
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.
Release Date1956-07-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count6
Funeral in Berlin
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.
Release Date1966-12-22
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count162
Oh! What a Lovely War
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the five boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
Release Date1969-03-10
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count50
Billion Dollar Brain
A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?
Release Date1967-11-16
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count117
Midnight in Saint Petersburg
Harry Palmer heads a private investigation business based in Moscow. His associates are Nikolai "Nick" Petrov, ex-CIA agent Craig, and ex-KGB Colonel Gradsky. They take on the job of finding 1000 grams of weapons-grade plutonium stolen from the Russian government, though they do not know the identity of their client.
Release Date1996-10-17
DepartmentWriting
JobCharacters
Vote Count36
Bullet to Beijing
When long-time British agent Harry Palmer loses his job because the Cold War is over, he's promptly approached by a Russian bossman, Alex. In St. Petersburg Alex tells Harry of his plan for Russia's future, which is threatened because a deadly biochemical weapon called the Red Death has been stolen from him. He'll pay Harry handsomely to retrieve it. An ex-spy friend tips Harry off that it's being sent to Beijing by train, aboard which we begin to learn whose side everyone's really on.
Release Date1995-12-20
DepartmentWriting
JobCharacters
Vote Count40
Long Past Glory
Two aging, shabby men inhabit a decaying sewer pumping station. They live by stealing things, including beds, a piano and a gramophone.They're joined by a younger man who disrupts their dreary small talk with angry, upsetting arguments.
Release Date1963-11-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Spy Story
A nuclear war specialist returns from a mission gathering data on Soviet communications and electronic warfare techniques in the Arctic Ocean to find that his flat has been broken into and mysteriously re-decorated.
Release Date1976-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count4
Only When I Larf
A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.
Release Date1968-05-27
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count5