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The Courier is a 2020 historical spy film directed by Dominic Cooke and written by Tom O'Connor. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Greville Wynne, and is based on the true story of a British businessman who was recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service to be a message conduit with Russian spy source Oleg Penkovsky (played by Merab Ninidze) in the 1960s. [3]
Penkovsky at the trial in 1963. On 2 November, 1962, Penkovsky's Western handlers in Moscow received two voiceless telephone calls and a visual signal (a chalk mark on a telephone pole or street light pole), ostensibly from him, notifying them that his dead drop had been loaded. Upon servicing the dead drop (which held a letter ostensibly from ...
Greville Maynard Wynne (19 March 1919 [1] – 28 February 1990) was a British engineer and businessman recruited by MI6 because of his frequent travel to Eastern Europe. He acted as a courier to transport top-secret information to London from the Soviet agent Oleg Penkovsky.
One of Penkovsky’s contacts was a British civilian named Greville Wynne, who wrote an autobiography about his experiences. Review: In ‘The Courier,’ Cumberbatch is an everyman spy Skip to ...
Ronin was born in Kaliningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia). [1] He spent the first 17 years of his life in Russia. [2] In his youth, he moved to Wellington, New Zealand with his mother and studied international relations and political science at Victoria University, before moving to Perth, Australia for further tertiary education [1] and, later, to Sydney.
Richard Mark Bonnar (born 19 November 1968) [citation needed] is a Scottish actor. He is known for his roles as Max in Guilt, Duncan Hunter in Shetland, Bruno Jenkins in Casualty, Detective Finney in Psychoville, DCC Mike Dryden in Line of Duty, Colin Osborne in Unforgotten, Blackbeard in Assasin's Creed IV: Black Flag, Townsend in Battlefield 1 and Field in Summer of Rockets.
Gervase Cowell MBE (() 4 August 1926 – () 2 May 2000) was half of a British husband-and-wife intelligence team who handled Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, a Soviet GRU military intelligence officer who provided the West with invaluable military secrets.
Justin Hartley's CBS series Tracker was tasked with writing off a major cast member after a surprising exit — but how did the show execute the onscreen change? During the season 2 premiere ...