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An Englishman Abroad
An Englishman Abroad is a 1983 BBC television drama film, based on the true story of a chance meeting of actress Coral Browne, with Guy Burgess (Alan Bates), a member of the Cambridge spy ring who spied for the Soviet Union while an officer at MI6. The production was written by Alan Bennett and directed by John Schlesinger; Browne stars as herself.
Plot.
The film is set in Moscow in 1958, after Burgess had defected to the Soviet Union in 1951 with Donald Maclean
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He played two diametrically-opposed roles in "An Englishman Abroad" (1983), as Guy Burgess, a member of the Cambridge spy ring exiled in Moscow, and in "Pack of Lies" (1987), as a British Secret Service agent tracking several Soviet spies. He continued working in film and television in the 1990s, including the role of Claudius in Mel Gibson's version of "Hamlet" (1990), though most of his