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Mar 13, 2023 · Damian Lewis found making A Spy Among Friends with Guy Pearce a "surprising" experience, he told Newsweek, because of the intricacies of the real story the MGM+ drama is based on. Lewis plays...
Mar 10, 2023 · The MGM+ series starring Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce dramatizes the true story of two British spies and lifelong friends, Nicholas Elliott (Lewis) and Kim Philby (Pearce.) The latter became a notorious British defector.
Mar 12, 2023 · Guy Pearce stars as Harold “Kim” Philby, the traitor in question, with Damian Lewis stepping into the role of best friend and fellow spy, Nicholas Elliott. Books, TV shows, and movies have all...
Mar 3, 2023 · In “A Spy Among Friends,” Nicholas Elliott (Damian Lewis), left, learns his old friend and fellow spy Kim Philby (Guy Pearce), right, has been a double agent. Adi Marineci/Sony Pictures...
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Born on January 1, 1912, in Ambala, India, into what he himself described as “the ruling class of the British Empire”, Harold Philby gained the nickname of Kim in honor of the Rudyard Kipling novel of the same name about a boy that served as a British spy during the 19th century political standoff between the UK and Russia. Pretty ironic, consideri...
With the Spanish Civil War now over and World War II on the horizon, Philby started dropping hints that he would like to work for the government in the fight against Hitler. He was invited to join the MI6’s counterespionage Section V in 1941, and charged with feeding false information to the Soviet Union, which was a British ally during the war. Th...
It was during Philby’s time in Washington that two of his Cambridge friends and fellow Soviet spies were discovered, spelling the beginning of the end of his career in the MI6. It was Philby himself that warned Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, played in the show by Thomas Arnold and Daniel Lapaine, respectively, of the secret service's intentions of...
Philby lived a long and happy life in the USSR, where he was greeted as a hero. In 1965, the Soviets awarded him the Red Banner of Honor for his services to the KGB. Later on, he received privileged granted only to KGB generals. In 1968, he published a memoir titled My Secret War, and, in 1971, he married for the fourth time with Rufina Pukhova, a ...
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Mar 12, 2023 · A Spy Among Friends tells the tale the friendship between British spies Kim Philby and Nicholas Elliott. Philby, notoriously, was a double agent for the Soviet Union, and defected to Moscow in ...
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Dec 14, 2022 · A six-episode series based on Mr Macintyre’s book has now been released on Britain’s new streaming service, ITVX. Starring Guy Pearce as Philby and Damian Lewis as Elliott, “A Spy Among ...
