In 1965, Martin Ritt directed the film adaptation, with Richard Burton as Leamas, Oskar Werner as Fiedler, and Claire Bloom as Nan Perry, a renaming of the character of Liz Gold.
In 2016, Paramount Television and The Ink Factory — who produced television adaptations of Le Carré's The Night Manager and The Little Drummer Girl — announced that they were developing a limited series based on The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, with Simon Beaufoy as the writer.[11] On 14 January 2017, AMC and the BBC joined with The Ink Factory for the series.[12]
