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Raffles is a 1977 television series adapted from the A. J. Raffles stories by E. W. Hornung. [2] The stories were adapted by Philip Mackie.. Set in Victorian era London, the series features the criminal adventures of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, a renowned cricketer, and his friend, the eager but naive Bunny Manders, as they test their skills in relieving the wealthy of their valuables ...
Anthony Valentine portrayed Raffles in the 1977 television series Raffles and its 1975 pilot episode. Nigel Havers portrayed Raffles in the 2001 television film Gentleman Thief. The BBC had been developing a new Raffles series, to be helmed by BAFTA winner Sukey Fisher. [61] As of 2021, its status is unknown.
1904 Collier's illustration by J. C. Leyendecker. A. J. Raffles is a British fictional character – a cricketer and gentleman thief – created by E. W. Hornung.Between 1898 and 1909, Hornung wrote a series of 26 short stories, two plays, and a novel about Raffles and his fictional chronicler, Harry "Bunny" Manders.
Anthony Valentine (17 August 1939 – 2 December 2015) was an English actor best known for his television roles: the ruthless Toby Meres in Callan (1967–72), the sadistic Major Horst Mohn in Colditz (1972–74), the suave titular gentleman thief in Raffles (1977), and the murderous Baron Gruner in the Sherlock Holmes episode "The Illustrious Client" (1991).
Raffles; Raffles, a 1977 television adaptation starring Anthony Valentine; Raffles (Lord Lister), a fictional German pulp hero originally with similarities to A. J. Raffles; Raffles Haw, an 1891 fictional character in a moralistic story by A. Conan Doyle "Raffles", an episode of the British sitcom Hi-de-Hi!
The Amateur Cracksman is an 1899 short story collection by E. W. Hornung.It was published in the UK by Methuen & Co., London, and in the US by Scribner's, New York. [1] Many later editions (T. Nelson & Sons, 1914; University of Nebraska Press, 1976; et al.) expand the title to Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman.
Harry Manders (almost exclusively known as Bunny Manders) is a fictional character in the popular series of Raffles stories by E. W. Hornung. [1] [2] [3] He is the companion of A. J. Raffles, a cricketer and gentleman thief, who makes a living robbing the rich in late Victorian British High Society.
The series of Raffles short stories were collected for sale in book form in 1899, and two further books of Raffles short stories followed, as well as a poorly received novel. Aside from his Raffles stories, Hornung was a prodigious writer of fiction, publishing numerous books from 1890, with A Bride from the Bush to his 1914 novel The Crime Doctor.