John Charles Greenway Irvin, film-maker who directed the BBC’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and several Hollywood movies, died 11 August, 2026. He was 86.
He overcame Alec Guinness’s misgivings to guide him to a Bafta-winning performance as Smiley, and also made The Dogs of War and Champions.
He was born 7 May, 1940, son of Major C.W. Irvin, of Tynemouth, Northumberland, and his wife the former Elsie Bending, and married in 1970, Sophie Mary Cecilia Litchfield (born 8 December, 1942, died 1991), scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of Capt John Shirley Sandys Litchfield, OBE, RN (1903-1993), and his wife the former Margaret Cecilia Portal (1908-2006), scion of the Portal baronets, by whom he had a son, Luke (born 1973), and two daughters, Emilie (born 1970), and Amy (born 1978).
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