(1979) The Secret Pilgrim (1990) A Legacy of Spies (2017) In other media Film Rupert Davies, of Maigret fame, played Smiley as a minor although important character in the 1965 film adaptation The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. James Mason played Smiley (renamed Charles Dobbs) in The Deadly Affair, a 1966 film adaptation of Call for the Dead. The character of Smiley was dropped from the 1969 film adaptation of The Looking Glass War. Gary Oldman plays Smiley in the 2011 film adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal. Television Alec Guinness portrayed Smiley in two highly successful BBC TV series: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), and Smiley's People (1982). The middle story, The Honourable Schoolboy, was not filmed due to the cost of the Indochina setting. The Far Eastern parts of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy had been relocated to Portugal for the same reason. Denholm Elliott played Smiley in a 1991 version of A Murder of Quality. Radio George Cole played Smiley in BBC Radio versions of both Call for the Dead (1978) and A Murder of Quality (1981). Peter Vaughan played Smiley in a radio version of The Honourable Schoolboy (1983). Bernard Hepton, who played the part of Toby Esterhase in the BBC television series, played Smiley in the BBC Radio series of both Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1988) and Smiley's People (1990), with Charles Kay taking the part of Esterhase. Simon Russell Beale played Smiley in a series of radio plays dramatising all of the then published novels which began on 23 May 2009 on BBC Radio 4 with Call for the Dead. Comics In the 1988 comic Shattered Visage, made as a sequel to the spy show The Prisoner, Smiley is mentioned as having tutored a character in interrogation. Smiley appears as Harry Lime's assistant in Alan Moore's 2007 graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier. Parody In the popular TV comedy series The Two Ronnies, Ronnie Barker played Smiley along the lines of Alec Guinness' portrayal in a sketch called Tinker Tailor Smiley Doyle. This was a joint send-up of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Professionals TV series, with Ronnie Corbett playing a bungling version of Martin Shaw's Doyle. Barker's Smiley provides the brains to the brawn of Corbett's Doyle and actually comes out the better. He is