| Richard Hannay | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | The Thirty-Nine Steps |
| Last appearance | Sick Heart River |
| Created by | John Buchan |
| Portrayed by | Robert Donat (film) Orson Welles (radio) Jack Livesey (BBC radio) Glenn Ford (radio) Herbert Marshall (radio) Kenneth More (film) James Mckechnie (BBC radio) Christopher Cazenove (BBC TV documentary) Barry Foster (TV film) Robert Powell (film, television) David Rintoul (BBC radio) David Robb (BBC radio) Rupert Penry-Jones (BBC TV film) Robert Whitelock (stage) Charles Edwards (stage) Sam Robards (stage) Jorge de Juan (stage) Christophe Laubion (stage) Daniel Llewelyn-Williams (stage) Andrew Alexander (stage) Brian Smolin (stage) Todd Waite (stage) Keegan Colcleasure (stage) |
| In-universe information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Soldier Spy |
| Nationality | British |
Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, DSO, is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist John Buchan and further made popular by the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film The 39 Steps (and other later film adaptations), very loosely based on Buchan's 1915 novel of the same name. 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, and a British Army field marshal and CIGS.[1][2]