Editing John le Carré (section)

===Other writing, film cameos===
Le Carré records a number of incidents from his period as a diplomat in his autobiographical work, ''[[The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life]]'' (2016), which include escorting six visiting German parliamentarians to a London brothel<ref>{{cite book|first=John|last=le Carré|chapter=Official visit|title=The Pigeon Tunnel. Stories from My Life|isbn=978-0-241-97687-6|year=2016|publisher=Viking }}</ref> and translating at a meeting between a senior German politician and [[Harold Macmillan]].<ref>{{cite book|first=John|last=le Carré|title=The Pigeon Tunnel. Stories from My Life|chapter=Fingers on the trigger|isbn=978-0-241-97687-6|year=2016|publisher=Penguin Books Limited |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CSuvCgAAQBAJ&q=harold+macmillan|access-date=14 December 2020|archive-date=14 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214155126/https://books.google.com/books?id=CSuvCgAAQBAJ&q=harold+macmillan|url-status=live}}</ref>

As a journalist, le Carré wrote ''The Unbearable Peace'' (1991), a nonfiction account of Brigadier [[Jean-Louis Jeanmaire]] (1911–1992), the [[Swiss Armed Forces|Swiss Army]] officer, who spied for the Soviet Union from 1962 until 1975.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://granta.com/the-unbearable-peace/ |title=The Unbearable Peace |journal=Granta |first=Sigrid |last=Rausing |author-link=Sigrid Rausing |access-date=4 March 2010 |archive-date=27 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927180843/http://granta.com/the-unbearable-peace/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Credited under his pen name, le Carré appears as an extra in the 2011 [[Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film)|film version]] of ''[[Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy]]'', among the guests at the Christmas party in several flashback scenes. He also appears, in uncredited cameo roles, as a museum usher in ''[[Our Kind of Traitor (film)|Our Kind of Traitor]]''  2016 , and in the [[BBC]] TV production ''[[The Night Manager (British TV series)|The Night Manager]]'' (2016), as a restaurant diner.