He is a secret agent panda from seattle who uses the same hat as perry the platypus but the color is lighter. He is phineas and ferbs pet platypus, who, unbeknownst to his owners, lives a double life as a secret agent for the o. That it is not only one of his greatest triumphs but also one of the best novels of its kind testifies to his greatness. This is a list of fictional secret agents and spies.
The resulting story showcases some of the greatest spy movie action scenes of all time. Clanks first outing as a secret agent is a funny and actionpacked adventure that youll want to play more than once. This espionage film concerns about ashenden john gielgud, a secret agent is sent switzerland to kill an unknown enemy spy. There he deals with various characters, as a quirky mexican general peter lorre, a smart gentleman robert young and a gorgeous woman madeleine carrol who poses as his wife, causing the classic loving triangle gielgud, carrol, young. Stevie, winnie verlocs mentally disabled brother, keeps getting taken advantage of by all the. The book describes the characters that frequent verlocs shop, and doesnt paint a flattering picture of them. Michael scarn was the best topsecret agent in the business. The powerful but arrogant god thor is cast out of asgard to live amongst humans in midgard earth, where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders. Killing a wouldbe assassin with the promotional pen his gladhanding realestate agent friend has. Verloc, an agent provocateur assigned to spy on anarchists in london. A bythebooks agent, she displays a cold and seemingly emotionless personality which is possibly due to her having a condition similar to abeds. Secret agent 1936, the 1936 british film directed by alfred hitchcock. What makes the film interesting is that gielguds character is not at all the stereotyped dashing movie spy, and he has a keen sense of the human cost involved in. Michael scarn is the main hero of michael scotts movie, threat level midnight.
King faraday is a fictional secret agent featured in dc comics. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. The secret agent characters joseph conrad this study guide consists of approximately 44 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of the secret agent. Peter the panda is a recurring character of the animated tv show, phineas and ferb. Verloc, the owner of a seedy shop in victorian soho, plays a dangerous game spying on an agitating anarchist group that will prove useful to the foreign power he is secretly working for. We look at decades of film history to answer just that, finding plenty of bond, bourne. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. Aimed at preschool viewers ages three to five, the goal of the series is to inspire children to explore science, engineering, and math in the world around them.
The recommendation service has sorted out exciting, suspenseful, entertaining, realistic, clever and intense films and tv shows about with secret agents, undercover, espionage, spy, mentor, fight scenes, dialogue, betrayal, car chase and secret service plots mostly in action, thriller and adventure. Most popular secret agent movies and tv shows imdb. The secret agent 1996, directed by christopher hampton starring a young christian bale as stevie. Under pressure from his superiors at a foreign embassy. The downside of the short run is that it might not allow agent carter to explore the shows supporting characters in detail, which is a bit of a shame. The secret agent is by far the most complex classic i read for this year. Spy fiction, for everything else about secret agents. Bbcs the secret agent, 1992 yup, the bbc was all over this book back in 92. And what better guide is there for this kind of exploration than the worlds most curious monkey. Danger man, the 60s british spy fiction television series, known as secret agent in the united states.
Agent robin vohlers is a secret service agent that was sent to greendale to investigate any potential threats to the visiting vice president. David suchet as verloc and peter capaldi as vladimir in the 1992 bbc adaptation. A bythebooks agent, she displays a cold and seemingly emotionless personality which is possibly due to her having a condition similar to abed s. Dec 19, 2015 tumble into action with barbie secret agent doll from barbie spy squad and help save the day. Teaming up with perry the platypus, doofenshmirtzs nemesis, he. The neverending bond movie installments, in addition to other profitable spy movies, have glamorized the role of the secret agent.
Joseph conrads the secret agent 1996 rotten tomatoes. Sandra bullock, cate blanchett, helena bonham carter, anne hathaway, rihanna, sarah paulson, mindy kaling, and awkwafina combine their megapowers for an allfemale reboot of the oceans 11. Agent carter, marvels secret agent show, starts 2015 off. After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre prison. She remains in character and unwavering when retrieving the intel she requires. Michael scarn was the best top secret agent in the business. Malory archer, archer jessica walter jessica walter basically plays an animated veteran spy version of lucille bluth, and its exactly great a. With john gielgud, madeleine carroll, robert young, peter lorre. Jul 16, 2016 david suchet as verloc and peter capaldi as vladimir in the 1992 bbc adaptation.
The cast around atwell is excellent, particularly enver gjokaj of dollhouse as a fellow agent in the postwar strategic scientific reserve a cover for a covert spy agency. Winnies brother has the mental age of a young child. Spies and secret agents are necessarily closedoff, elusive sorts, so making them into interesting characters is a difficult task for any writer or actor. She was betrayed by her partner and lover when she was performing a mission in the bermuda triangle. He had a way with the ladies like no agent before him, mostly because he was gay. If you want to hang tough in the espionage racket, get in shape and be physically fit for duty. Why donna tartts the secret history never became a movie. A manchild who imagines himself as a movie super agent or a military special ops guy on a topsecret mission and acts accordingly.
The music score is philip glass, and the director is christopher hampton, who made carrington before this one. Bbcs the secret agent, 1967 they did one in 67, too. The golden circle in theaters right now, heres our pick of the sneakiest secret agents. Ah, good ol verloc, the main character of the secret agent. We have yet to see any of marvels television characters i. Women in the field tended to open up to him much more than the chauvinistic womanizers who were usually working for the agency. A manchild who imagines himself as a movie super agent or a military special ops guy on a top secret mission and acts accordingly. This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
This trope is about a character who pretends to be. Theyve also provided insight into some of the skills required for success in this secretive career. The novel describes events in the life of a man named verloc, a secret government agent for an unnamed country living in london in 1886, who is ordered to carry out a bombing with the goal of manipulating the british government. Secret agent, the 1992 platform game danger man, the 60s british spy fiction television series, known as secret agent in the united states the secret agent, the joseph conrad novel spy fiction, for everything else about secret agents if an internal link led you here, please correct. Bbc the strong resonance of the novel in that epoch is shown by the fact that a movie version, written. A simple tale is a novel by joseph conrad, published in 1907. The organization without a cool acronym, a secret government organization of animal spies tasked with. Perry the platypus, codenamed agent p, or just simply perry is the tritagonist of the 200715 disney channel animated television series phineas and ferb. Point blank by anthony horowitz, geronimo stilton, secret agent by geronimo stilton, stormbreaker by anthony horowitz, sco. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing secret agent near you. Peter met the evil heinz doofenshmirtz at a convention there and became a pawn in his scheme to capture every secret agent in the world. Malory archer, archer jessica walter jessica walter basically plays an animated veteran spy version of lucille bluth, and its exactly great as it sounds.
They tend to be either anxious young men or older gents with muddy clothes and their collars turned up to hide their faces. The list contains the best, new and most relevant secret agents movies ordered by relevance. Usually played for laughs distinct from tuxedo and martini played for laughs in that tuxedo and martini is more about james bond and the notion of the spy as the suave, eveningdressed, martiniordering playboy. Thornhill an executive at an nyc ad agency as he is mistaken for a government agent and subsequently hunted by the brutal spy phillip vandamm. Perry the platypus, also known as agent p is phineas and ferbs pet. Scarn saved the nfl pro bowl game, the mlb all star game and the nba all star game from goldenface. A secret agent might need to scramble over barbed wire fences, hang precipitously from the landing gear of a helicopter, or sneak through the sewage system of nestle. This is the category for secret agent clank characters. The bbc cant seem to leave the secret agent alone its commissioned four adaptations of joseph conrads 1907 novel about the social and psychological underpinnings of a. The story is set in london in 1886 and deals with mr adolf verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country presumably russia.
Farz is a spy thriller film directed by ravikant nagaich starring jeetendra as an indian secret agent. Old and infirm, mrs verlocs mother leaves the household to live. Winnie verloc is the loyal and devoted wife of adolph verloc although really her devotion. The sophomore directing effort by dangerous liaisons screenwriter christopher hampton, following carrington, the secret agent is a wellperformed but dramatically sluggish adaptation of the novel. He lives with his much younger wife, winnie, and her adult brother, stevie, a. This study guide consists of approximately 44 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of the secret agent. Secret agent 1996 stars very strong cast bob hoskins also exproducer, patricia arquatte, christian bale, gerard depardieu, jim broadbent, eddie izzard, and uncredited robin williams.
The secret agent was a major risk for joseph conrad, a london tale of international political intrigue far removed from the symbolic sea adventures he had previously written. She takes a particular interest in abed although it turns out to be. The ten greatest fictional secret agents of alltime film school. Amanda waller she is a fictional character of super villain and sometimes antiheroine who appears in comic booklets in the dc comics universe. Rather than following a besuited secret agent as he saves the world, north by northwest follows roger o. Built on the themes of espionage, double agents, government policies, politics, terrorism and revolutionaries, it is a dark and tragic tale, and even brutal at times. The secret agent is one of conrads later political novels in which he moved away from his former tales of seafaring. All the female spy, assassin, and super thief movies in. She fell into the sea from the boat and into a crack of time and space, meeting a vampire on first day. The secret history is a novel of ideas with plenty of actiontheres sex, drugs, murder, and a bacchanal gone horribly wrong, all of which are excellent ingredients for a blockbuster movie. The secret agent tells the story of adolf verloc, a london shopkeeper who sells shady wares i. After three british agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious german spy during world war i, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
As early spoofs of the james bond films, they had their place, and they also inspired mike myers to create the austin powers character. Secret agent dallies much on the way but rates as good spy entertainment, suave story telling, and, in one particular case, brilliant characterization. Whether major marvel tv and movie characters will start. Curious george is an animated series based on the popular books by margret and h. Complete summary of joseph conrads the secret agent. With toby jones, vicky mcclure, charlie hamblett, marie critchley. Agent carter, marvels secret agent show, starts 2015. The cast includes channing tatum, michael fassbender, michael.