Favourite Spy?

tim31 · Post by **tim31** » 2007-11-02 12:23am

Yeah, I voted Maxwell Smart. We're yet to see portable telephones in shoes.

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2007-11-02 01:57am

darthbob88 wrote:
SancheztheWhaler wrote:Other: Number Six
Which one? Retired spy No 6 from The Prisoner, or the sexy Cylon from nBSG?

Really, how can anyone mention female Femme Fatale agents of espionage, and give a nod to toasters with legs when you have Miladay (The Countess De Winter (3 Musketeers, you young whippersnaps!).

Gerald Tarrant · Post by **Gerald Tarrant** » 2007-11-02 02:18am

I voted Other: Matt Damon, err Jason Bourne. "You should get some sleep you look tired." Was a very cool last scene of the movie

Post by **weemadando** » 2007-11-02 02:50am

Other - Harry Pearce from Spooks. s6 just further confirms his divinity.

ray245 · Post by **ray245** » 2007-11-02 03:17am

Gerald Tarrant wrote:I voted Other: Matt Damon, err Jason Bourne. "You should get some sleep you look tired." Was a very cool last scene of the movie

Second...a agent that is close to perfection in what he does. Almost every movie agency ability to kill/capture him has been a failure.

Gerald Tarrant · Post by **Gerald Tarrant** » 2007-11-02 03:34am

ray245 wrote:
Gerald Tarrant wrote:I voted Other: Matt Damon, err Jason Bourne. "You should get some sleep you look tired." Was a very cool last scene of the movie
Second...a agent that is close to perfection in what he does. Almost every movie agency ability to kill/capture him has been a failure.

Although if he went up against a Sean Connery Bond he'd probably end up losing to a pimped out rocket-car.

thejester · Post by **thejester** » 2007-11-02 07:31am

The nameless spy from Len Deighton's series of books; you could also say Bernard Samson, they're practically the same character.

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2007-11-02 09:05am

Sam Fisher, followed by Stierlitz.

Stierlitz was about to meet up with his contact, when several shots rang out and the informant collapsed, dead.

Sterlitz checked the nearby alleys, looked behind a tree and returned to the scene.

"Damn, I must be hearing things." - he thought.

During the May Day celebrations, Stierlitz paraded through the Reichkanzellarie with the Soviet Banner and a fur cap, singing the the International loudly. He never was so close to blowing his cover.

One day, Sterlitz walked into Borman's office and asked:

"Herr Bormann, would you like to work for Soviet intelligence? They pay well."

Seeing Bormann look at him, stumped, he quickly asked

"Can I borrow some sugar, herr Bormann?"

He knew people only remembered the end of the conversation.

A paratrooper charged into Bormann's office, dressed in Russian fatigues, with a Ppsh slung across his chest. He saluted and shouted:

"The tractors have finished their work, and are following their leaders north!"

Bormann looked at the man, disgusted, and said:

"Stierlitz's office is upstairs."

The SS was on Stierlitz! All the exits from his hideout were cordonned off, and the soldiers stormed up the stairs.

But once again, he outwitted the Nazis!

He slipped away through the entrance.

On another thought, I guess Stierlitz wins this, hands down

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2007-11-02 10:05am

Gerald Tarrant wrote:Although if he went up against a Sean Connery Bond he'd probably end up losing to a pimped out rocket-car.

Please. Sean Connery could be after him with a rocket-car. Batman could be after him with his Bat-tank-mobile.

Sean Conner could be after him with a rocket-car and Batman could be after with his Bat-tank-mobile!

And he'd be in his little Mini.

And he'd win.

Stuart · Post by **Stuart** » 2007-11-02 12:15pm

DEATH wrote:From the fantastical to the realistic, who's your favourite (Fictional) Super-Spy?

David Callan.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2007-11-02 12:54pm

I like the Black Spy. As opposed to the White Spy, who's a prick.

And [monarch]Brock Samson...[/monarch]

Sidewinder · Post by **Sidewinder** » 2007-11-02 01:22pm

Stuart wrote:David Callan.

When I looked up that name on Wikipedia, I got an Australian standup comedian. Who is the David Callan you're talking about?

Post by **K. A. Pital** » 2007-11-02 01:30pm

Sidewinder wrote:I got an Australian standup comedian. Who is the David Callan you're talking about?

It's that Callan I guess. He's a former spy.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2007-11-02 01:53pm

I think he may mean David McCallum a.k.a. Illya Kuryakin, one of the men from U.N.C.L.E.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2007-11-02 01:57pm

weemadando wrote:Other - Harry Pearce from Spooks. s6 just further confirms his divinity.

That's Sir Harry Pearce to you!

I've gone for Bond, although Pearce would easily be a joint number one.

Stuart · Post by **Stuart** » 2007-11-02 02:23pm

Patrick Degan wrote:I think he may mean David McCallum a.k.a. Illya Kuryakin, one of the men from U.N.C.L.E.

Dear God no.

David Callan was a secret agent (read cold-blooded assassin) in a group of four TV series (called Callan) produced for British television between 1967 and 1972. Played by Edward Woodward and was a superb portrayal of a gray, morally ambiguous world where nothing is quite what it seemed and nobody quite who they said they were. The individuals episodes were never cut and dried, they always ended on an ambiguous and untidy conclusion.

The character was picked up later for an American television series called "The Equalizer", the plot presumption being that David Callan finally managed to retire alive and left for America where he tried to redeem himself. The producers couldn't use the name "David Callan for copyright reasons so he used the pseudonym Robert McCall. Its a matter of nods and winks that David Callan and Robert McCall are teh same character.

Try HERE

Man from Uncle indeed (shudders in disgust)

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2007-11-02 03:16pm

Stuart wrote:
Patrick Degan wrote:I think he may mean David McCallum a.k.a. Illya Kuryakin, one of the men from U.N.C.L.E.
Dear God no.

David Callan was a secret agent (read cold-blooded assassin) in a group of four TV series (called Callan) produced for British television between 1967 and 1972. Played by Edward Woodward and was a superb portrayal of a gray, morally ambiguous world where nothing is quite what it seemed and nobody quite who they said they were. The individuals episodes were never cut and dried, they always ended on an ambiguous and untidy conclusion.

The character was picked up later for an American television series called "The Equalizer", the plot presumption being that David Callan finally managed to retire alive and left for America where he tried to redeem himself. The producers couldn't use the name "David Callan for copyright reasons so he used the pseudonym Robert McCall. Its a matter of nods and winks that David Callan and Robert McCall are teh same character.

Ah, I see.

Did Callan ever get American syndication?

Stuart · Post by **Stuart** » 2007-11-02 03:30pm

Patrick Degan wrote:Did Callan ever get American syndication?

Sadly no. The majority of the first two series episodes have been lost, if it had been syndicated to America they would have been saved. The same copright problems that hit the name also prevented the syndication of the show and have pretty much prevented it's release on DVD - the Australians (God bless them) managed to save the third series and have released in on DVD.

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » 2007-11-02 04:21pm

Secret squirel

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2007-11-02 06:50pm

One of my favourite movie spies was from the film The President's Analyst (1969, James Coburn): KGB agent Fyodor Nikaloyevich Kropotkin (Severn Darden), the only foreign spy who succeeds in kidnapping Dr. Sidney Shaffer —only to be convinced to put him back in Washington when the good doctor starts psychoanalysing him, after which the Russian can't take him back home because he needs Shaffer as his doctor. As good is Kropotkin's CEA counterpart and best friend, agent Don Masters (Godfrey Cambridge), another patient of Dr. Shaffer's as well as one of his minders.

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