Reilly: Ace of Spies

Reilly: Ace of Spies

The amazing true story of the world's first international super spy

NR Limited Series 1983 · 12 eps · ★ 7.0 · Crime, Drama

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Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatising the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th-century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.

Created by Troy Kennedy Martin

Network: ITV1

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Sam Neill Sidney Reilly
Michael Bryant Narrator (voice)
Norman Rodway Cummings
Tom Bell Dzerzhinsky
Hugh Fraser Hill
Clive Merrison Savinkov
Peter Egan Fothergill
Leo McKern Zaharov
Jeananne Crowley Margaret
Brian Protheroe Grammaticoff
Malcolm Terris Sykes
Celia Gregory Nadia Massino

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