This Tuesday, Scottish actor David McCallum turns 90, famous for playing a Russian spy in the 1960s in the series “The CIPOL Agent,” whose first and last name (which the Argentine musicians Dante Spinetta and Emanuel Horvilleur used, with a couple of typos, to name your band) will be read vertically if these 13 questions are answered.
1. One of the great novelists who wrote fiction about espionage was the British John le Carré. His first great success transferred to film in 1965 tells the operation of an English spy (played by Richard Burton) in East Germany. It is titled “The Spy Who Came From…..” From what?
2. McCallum was in that spy series the side of Robert Vaughn, the UNCOL agent. What was the name of Vaughn’s character? (name and surname)
3. In his own way, Alfred Hitchcock ventured into spy films. In a famous film from 1935, a man meets a spy who, before she dies, reveals to him a plot hatched by a spy organization called “The 39… ..” The 39 what?
4. “International Intrigue”, from 1959, is another Hitchcock classic. In its most iconic scene, the publicist who is mistaken for a spy flees through the countryside pursued by a crop dusting plane. What was the actor’s name? (name and surname)
5. Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan played the most famous spy in cinema in different films. Whom? (name and surname)
6. In the series “Super Agent 86”, actor Don Adams was Maxwell Smart, “fearsome counterespionage operator”, spy for a secret agency called Control. What was the name of the rival spy agency, a parody of the KGB?
7. “Mission: Impossible” was born in 1966 as a television series and since 1996 it has accumulated seven films, always with the same actor in the role of the spy Ethan Hunt. What actor? (name and surname)
8. The comedian Mike Myers composed three films between 1997 and 2002, a parody of a British secret agent from the ’60s transferred to the present day. His spy’s name was Austin… Austin what?
9. The character in question 5, who came to the cinema in 1962, has already appeared in 27 films. Which actor played him in the last five? (name and surname)
10. Greta Garbo was, in 1931, the first actress to portray the most famous spy of the First World War, an exotic dancer of Dutch origin. Who are we talking about? (two names)
11. In 1990, the French actress Anne Parillaud played, directed by Luc Besson, a spy trained to kill, a character that was later taken up in two television series. What was that spy’s name?
12. “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”, from 2005, tells the story of a married couple of murderous spies who work, unknowingly, for different intelligence agencies. He was Brad Pitt. And her? (name and surname)
13. Between 2002 and 2007, Matt Damon played a spy who suffers from amnesia and tries to reconstruct his identity in an action trilogy. What’s that character’s last name?
2023-09-16 20:33:38
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