Richard Hannay

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)
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Gender	Male
Occupation	Soldier Spy
Nationality	British

Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, DSO, Legion of Honour, is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist John Buchan and made further 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.

Hannay appears in several novels as a major character, including:

He also appears as a minor character in:

In Combined Forces (1985), a humorous novel by Jack Smithers, Hannay teams up with the similar heroes "Sapper"'s Bulldog Drummond and Dornford Yates' Jonah Mansel.

Hannay has been portrayed in four film versions of The Thirty Nine Steps respectively, by actors Robert Donat (in the original and most famous film adaptation, directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935), Kenneth More, Robert Powell and Rupert Penry-Jones (in a 2008 BBC production). Powell reprised the role for the ITV series Hannay (1988–1989).