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    Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess (16 April 1911 – 30 August 1963) was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent, and a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring...
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    the sudden flight of Donald Maclean (1913–1983, codename Homer) and Guy Burgess (1911–1963, codename Hicks) to the Soviet Union. Suspicion immediately...
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    was working in the Foreign Office, as well as Guy Burgess, despite his personal reservations about Burgess' erratic personality. In London, Philby began...
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  • events during World War II) and the defections of Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess to the Soviet Union. Most decipherable messages were transmitted and...
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  • frequently to continental Europe in connection with his studies. Like Guy Burgess, Blunt was known to be homosexual, the practice of which was a criminal...
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  • Another Country is loosely based on the life of the spy and double agent Guy Burgess, Guy Bennett in the film. It explores his homosexuality and exposure to...
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    In 2003 he portrayed George V in the BBC One film The Lost Prince and Guy Burgess in the BBC Two miniseries Cambridge Spies. He had a memorable role as...
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    "Stalin's Englishman: the lives of Guy Burgess: biography in intelligence history" and discussed his own 2015 book on Burgess. Lownie founded his eponymous...
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    top secret and were not made public until 1998, although Soviet spy Guy Burgess had revealed some details to them at the time. The initial primary goal...
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    between the future prime minister and Soviet spy Guy Burgess, then a young man working for the BBC. Burgess was played by Benedict Cumberbatch, with whom...
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    and Guy Burgess decided that Burgess would travel to London, where Maclean was head of the Foreign Office's American desk, to warn him. Burgess contrived...
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    Pinter's The Collection, A Voyage Round My Father, An Englishman Abroad (as Guy Burgess) and Pack of Lies. He also appeared on the stage, notably in the plays...
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  • Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess is a biography of the Soviet spy Guy Burgess by historian Andrew Lownie. The biography began as a dissertation...
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  • based on the true story of a chance meeting of actress Coral Browne with Guy Burgess, a member of the Cambridge spy ring who spied for the Soviet Union while...
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  • in light of the defections to the Soviet Union of the British agents Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean. The book was given broadly positive reviews by critics...
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  • to the Soviets. In 1951, Modin arranged the defections of Maclean and Guy Burgess. Modin's predecessors in control of the damaging Cambridge spy ring were...
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  • Percy Sillitoe. These rumours were accentuated when his close friend Guy Burgess defected. He was also a known associate of Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt...
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  • the GRU. Among Western officials who defected to the Soviet Union are Guy Burgess and Donald D. Maclean of Great Britain in 1951, Otto John of West Germany...
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  • lives of the best-known quartet of the Cambridge Five Soviet spies, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt and Donald Maclean, who whilst studying at...
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  • mathematician (b. 1894) 1961 – Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877) 1963 – Guy Burgess, English-Soviet spy (b. 1911) 1964 – Salme Dutt, Estonian-English lawyer...
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  • impropriety in 1951 after MI5 found papers in Guy Burgess's flat with a handwritten note from him, after Burgess's flight to Moscow. This included a 15-page...
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    stage, Burgess originated the role of Sebastian in The Little Mermaid and played the role of Nicely-Nicely Johnson in the 2009 revival of Guys and Dolls...
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  • MacLean in A Morning with Guy Burgess at the Courtyard Theatre, London, written by John Morrison and based on the life of Guy Burgess. The play was featured...
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    including biographies of the press baron Lord Beaverbrook and the Soviet spy Guy Burgess. He retired from the House of Commons in 1974, and was subsequently raised...
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    Television film Mussolini and I Count Galeazzo Ciano 1987, 1993 Screen Two Guy Burgess / Unnamed role 2 episodes 1988 Across the Lake Donald Campbell Television...
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  • at All Souls College with Guy Burgess, his great friend.[citation needed] He told Boyle that he had ridiculed Guy Burgess's claim to be a spy. He also...
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    Section D of SIS, and was vetted by his friend and fellow Soviet agent Guy Burgess. When Section D was absorbed by Special Operations Executive (SOE) in...
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    Elizabeth 1976 I, Claudius Claudius 12 episodes 1977 Philby, Burgess and MacLean Guy Burgess TV movie 1978 Tycoon Timothy West Episode: What Price a Life...
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  • became friends with Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and Kim Philby, members of the Cambridge Spy Ring. His flat in London was shared with Burgess and Blunt; this...
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    that Donald Maclean, now in the UK, had been identified as "Homer" and Guy Burgess was sent to warn him.: 29  White attempted to track the latter two to...
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