Hugh Stephenson mentions Roger Squires’s career as a TV actor, but without describing his greatest triumph as an extra. Revisit the BBC production of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and watch the scene where George Smiley visits Jim Prideaux on the rugby field. As Alec Guinness and Ian Bannen discuss moles in The Circus, centre-screen, directly in front of them, cheering the progress of the match and entering and re-entering the screen, comes Roger.
