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- Birth nameFrederick McCarthy Forsyth
- Frederick Forsyth was youngest pilot of the Royal Airforce, joining at the age of 19. He then became a journalist and worked for Reuters in several European capitals. Now he is a thriller author and his books have been sold over 35 million times worldwide.
- IMDb mini biography by: <lutz@technologist.com>
- SpousesSandy Molloy(1994 - October 19, 2024) (her death)Carole "Carrie" Cunningham(September 17, 1973 - 1988) (divorced, 2 children)
- Supported a motion to impeach British Prime Minister Tony Blair after the war "Operation Iraqi Freedom".
- Writes all his best-selling novels the old-fashioned way -- on a typewriter.
- He revealed to the BBC in 2015, that in the late 1960s he started to spy for MI6 in Biafra during the Nigerian civil war, and remained working for MI6 for 20 years, unpaid.
- Dated Faye Dunaway.
- He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1997 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to literature.
- I have yet to be convinced that the film business is a profession for adults.
- The spies in history who can say from their graves: "The information I supplied to my masters, for better or worse, altered the history of our planet." can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Richard Sorge was in that group.
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