The amazing true story of the world's first international super spy

Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatising the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th-century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.

Cast

Sam Neill

Sidney Reilly

Michael Bryant

Narrator (voice)

Norman Rodway

Cummings

Tom Bell

Dzerzhinsky

Hugh Fraser

Hill

Clive Merrison

Savinkov

Peter Egan

Fothergill

Leo McKern

Zaharov

Jeananne Crowley

Margaret

Brian Protheroe

Grammaticoff

Malcolm Terris

Sykes

Celia Gregory

Nadia Massino

Kenneth Cranham

Lenin

Ian Charleson

Lockhart

Bogdan Kominowski

Peters

Frances Barber

Dagmara

L

Laura Davenport

Pepita

Anthony Higgins

Trilisser

John Castle

Count Massino

Aubrey Morris

Mendrovovich

Seasons

12 episodes

Miniseries1983 · 12 episodes