Richard HannayMajor-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, DSO, Legion of Honour, is a fictional secret agent and army officer created by Scottish novelist John Buchan. In his autobiography,Memory Hold-the-Door, Buchan suggests that the character is based, in part, on Edmund Ironside, from Edinburgh, a spy during the Second Boer War.[Novels]Hannay appears in several novels as a major character, including: 1.The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) 2.Greenmantle (1916) 3.Mr Standfast (1919) 4.The Three Hostages (1924) 5.The Island of Sheep (1936) 6.The Courts of the Morning (1929) 7.Sick Heart River (1940)In Combined Forces (1985), a humorous novel by Jack Smithers, Hannay teams up with the similar heroes "Sapper"'s Bulldog Drummond and Dornford Yates' Jonah Mansel.[Radio, Film, Television & Theatre]Richard Hannay has been portrayed on screen in four versions of The Thirty Nine Steps by Robert Donat, Kenneth More, Robert Powell and Rupert Penry-Jones (in a 2008 BBC production), while Powell reprised the role for the ITV series Hannay (1988–1989).Orson Welles portrayed Hannay in a radio play of The Thirty-Nine Steps in 1938, as did Glenn Ford in 1948 on Suspense, Herbert Marshall on Studio One in 1952 and David Robb in theBBC Radio 4 adaptations of The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Standfast and The Three Hostages.The 1973 BBC documentary Omnibus: The British Hero had Christopher Cazenove playing Hannay in a scene from Mr. Standfast, as well as a number of other such heroic characters, including Beau Geste, Bulldog Drummond and James Bond. Barry Foster played Hannay in a 1977 television adaptation of The Three Hostages.A comic theatrical adaptation by Patrick Barlow opened in London's Tricycle Theatre, and after a successful run, transferred to the Criterion Theatre in Piccadilly. Although drawing on Buchan's novel, it is chiefly influenced by Hitchcock's 1935 film adaptation.
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