

"How do you find an enemy who is hidden right before your eyes?"
George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.
George Smiley

Bill Haydon

Ricki Tarr

Control

Percy Alleline

Jim Prideaux

Peter Guillam

Roy Bland

Toby Esterhase

Connie Sachs

Jerry Westerby

Oliver Lacon

Irina

Mendel

Polyakov

Mackelvore

Magyar

Hungarian Waiter

Woman in Window

KGB Agent

Bryant
Belinda

Fawn
Mrs Pope-Graham

Norman

Kaspart

Minister

Mary Alleline
Ann Smiley

Mrs McCraig

Bill Roach
Spikeley
Tufty Thesinger

Boris
Turkish Mistress
Ivan

Sergei
Listening Woman
Janitor Alwyn
Sal

Guillam's Boyfriend

Christmas Party Guest

Karla (Voice)

French Man at Residency

Ben

Schoolboy (uncredited)