Murray William Sayle OAM (1 January 1926 – 19 September 2010) was an Australian journalist, novelist and adventurer.A native of Sydney, Sayle moved to London in 1952. He was a foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times in the late 1960s and early 1970s. During his long career he covered wars in Vietnam, Pakistan and the Middle East, accompanied an expedition on its climb of Mount Everest, sailed solo across the Atlantic Ocean, was the first reporter to interview double agent Kim Philby after his defection to Russia, and trekked through the Bolivian jungle in search for Che Guevara. He resigned from The Sunday Times in 1972 after the newspaper refused to publish an investigative piece he wrote about the Bloody Sunday shootings of 26 unarmed protesters in Northern Ireland.Sayle moved to Hong Kong in 1972 and to Japan in 1975. Altogether he remained in Japan for nearly 30 years, writing about that country for various publications, principally The Independent Magazine, The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books.
In 1995, The New Yorker magazine devoted an entire issue to Sayle's investigations into the 1945 atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki entitled 'Did the Bomb End the War'.
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Journalist, war correspondent and adventurer, best known for the being the first person to interview the British double agent Kim Philby in Russia. Sayle is also well known for trekking through the Bolivian jungle in an attempt to track-down Che Guevara in 1967, covering the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, participating in the 1970 Mount Everest Expedition, sailing solo across the Atlantic ocean in the 1972 Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race. and for resigning from The Sunday Times newspaper after they refused to publish his controversial report on the 'Bloody Sunday' shootings.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Great Pleasure Hunt: Japan
1985
TV Movie
Narrator / guide
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Independent Lens
2008
TV Series documentary special thanks - 1 episode
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Funny
1988
Documentary
Himself
Weekend World
1974
TV Series
Himself
Known for movies
Funny (1988) as Himself
The Great Pleasure Hunt: Japan (1985) as Narrator / guide
$700,000