Benedict Cumberbatch is known for bringing outlandish, extraordinary characters, from Marvel's "Dr. Strange" to Sherlock Holmes. Make way for his amateur, everyman spy Greville Wynne in "The ...

Dapper Greville Maynard Wynne, 44, was a salesman who lived quietly in London’s fashionable Chelsea section with his wife and young son when he was not on the road selling electrical machinery ...

Benedict Cumberbatch is known for bringing outlandish, extraordinary characters, from Marvel's "Dr. Strange" to Sherlock Holmes. Make way for his amateur, everyman spy Greville Wynne in "The ...

The Courier is based on the real-life of a British industrial sales consultant, Greville Wynne, who was enlisted by the MI6 as a spy.Wynne was asked to take on the job by Dickie Franks, an agent ...

Benedict Cumberbatch delivers an appealing, technically tricky performance in “The Courier,” in which he plays Greville Wynne, a British salesman who in the 1960s became an improbable player ...

“For Greville, who’d been quite a thwarted person in his life, saw in Penkovsky, a 13 times decorated war hero, a heroic figure, someone that he would aspire to be.” The world of espionage ...

Cumberbatch's Greville, based on the real-life Greville Wynne, is a man who, while increasingly noble, becomes addicted to the thrill of spycraft. It's a flaw, but never one that overshadows the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Benedict Cumberbatch is set to play Cold War spy Greville Wynne in hot Cannes package Ironbark, I can reveal. FilmNation will finance and handle international sales on the pic, which is ...

Notes from a Sovient Prison CONTACT ON GORKY STREET by Greville Wynne. 222 pages. Afheneum. $4.95. From 1960 until his arrest by the KGB in 1962, Colonel Oleg Penkovsky of Soviet military ...

a London hospital, according to close friends. He was 71. Wynne was arrested for espionage in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s and sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. He served less than a ...

Benedict Cumberbatch is known for bringing outlandish, extraordinary characters, from Marvel's "Dr. Strange" to Sherlock Holmes. Make way for his amateur, everyman spy Greville Wynne in "The Courier," ...