Len Deighton - Turner Classic Movies

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Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)

Screenplay (see note)

Only When I Larf (1968)

Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1998)

Characters As Source Material

Bullet to Beijing (1995)

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Funeral In Berlin (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Answers To The Name Of Confucius

Billion Dollar Brain (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Now Is The Winter

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)

Screenplay (see note)

Producer (Feature Film)

Only When I Larf (1968)

Writer (TV Mini-Series)

Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1998)

Characters As Source Material

Misc. Crew (TV Mini-Series)

Bullet to Beijing (1995)

Source Material (From Novel)

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Funeral In Berlin (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Answers To The Name Of Confucius Michael Caine as working-class hero spy Harry Palmer is summoned to his boss Ross (Guy Doleman) in London, who shares a dubious story of a Russian defector in Berlin, then visiting travel facilitator Hallam (Hugh Burden), in the second film from Len Deighton’s popular novels, Funeral In Berlin, 1966.

Billion Dollar Brain (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Now Is The Winter Ex-spy turned private eye Harry Palmer (Michael Caine), has taken a job over the phone which sends him to the West London air terminal to pick up a package which seems to contain eggs, then to Helsinki, in director Ken Russell’s first studio feature, from the Len Deighton novel, Billion Dollar Brain, 1967.

Billion Dollar Brain (1967) -- (Movie Clip) I Want You Back At MI-5 Opening of the third Harry Palmer film from the Len Deighton espionage novels, MI-5 boss Ross (Guy Doleman) burgles the office of Michael Caine (title character), now a struggling London detective, in Billion Dollar Brain, 1967.

Billion Dollar Brain (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Welcome To Finland Ex-spy turned private eye Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) ends a flirtatious snowmobile ride across a Finnish lake with Anya (Francoise Dorleac), having insisted on seeing her boss about his payoff for a delivery, only to find he’s his ex-CIA pal Leo (Karl Malden) Billion Dollar Brain, 1967.

Billion Dollar Brain (1967) -- (Movie Clip) The Air In Texas At the Texas compound of oil zillionaire and cold war agitator General Midwinter (Ed Begley), Harry Palmer (Michael Caine), who’s posing as a for-hire private eye after having been pressed back into service with Britain’s MI-5, takes in some doctrine, in Billion Dollar Brain, 1967.

Oh! What A Lovely War (1969) -- (Movie Clip) Ready For The Shot The historical fantasy opening from the first movie directed by Richard Attenborough, Ralph Richardson as the British foreign secretary, Meriel Forbes his wife, Ian Holm the French president, John Gielgud the Austrian foreign minister, Kenneth More the Kaiser, Paul Daneman the Czar, many others, in the sprawling WWI farce Oh! What A Lovely War, 1969.

Oh! What A Lovely War (1969) -- (Movie Clip) These French Generals Director Richard Attenborough's comic fantasy proceeds, from the music hall at Brighton to France for cameos by Michael Redgrave and Laurence Olivier as bully Brit generals, back to the beach where men of the Smith family, John Rae as grandpa, shoot their way to the front, in Oh! What A Lovely War, 1969.

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