Leonard Cyril Deighton Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Leonard Cyril Deighton (/?di?t?n/; born 18 February 1929), known as Len Deighton, is a British military historian, cookery writer, graphic artist, and novelist. He is perhaps most famous for his spy novel The IPCRESS File, which was made into a film starring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer.
Edgar Award for Best Novel, Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
Movies
Midnight in Saint Petersburg, Oh! What a Lovely War, Only When I Larf, Billion Dollar Brain, Funeral in Berlin, The Ipcress File
TV Shows
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Star Sign
Aquarius
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My disagreement with the depiction of Harry Palmer on the screen was the implausible suggestion that Harry was blackmailed into working for the secret intelligence service. Blackmailed! This is the old boy network. These are people with tailored shirts and lace-up shoes. Despite the disrepute it suffered from harbouring traitors such as Philby - Westminster, Cambridge and the Athenaeum - the SIS retained this policy. Blackmailing a Harry Palmer into the service would have been unthinkable.
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I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.
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Fact
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He shared a basement flat in London with composer Ted Dicks for many years.
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Has written series about two different characters who go unnamed. The first series, also known as the 'Harry Palmer' series (from the name given the character in the movies) comprises five books: The IPCRESS File (1962), Horse Under Water (1963), Funeral in Berlin (1964), Billion-Dollar Brain (1966), and An Expensive Place to Die (1967). The second series, aka the Patrick Armstrong series (from an alias used by the character in one book), comprises the books: Spy Story (1972), Yesterday's Spy (1975), and Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy (1976). The two series are distinguished by vastly different styles of plot, humor, and characters; but because the hero is unnamed in both, and because the books feature some of the same secondary characters, they are often thought to star a single, continuous character. This was not helped by the publisher, which put photos of actor Michael Caine (as 'Harry Palmer') on the covers of all the books.
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Is as famous for his cook books and his non-fiction as he is for his best-selling spy novels.
$100,000
