Richard Hannay of the Second World War, Buchan's last novel, "Sick Heart River" (published just after the author died in 1940) offers a hint about Hannay's future: dying in Canada, Hannay's friend Sir Edward Leithen hears of the outbreak of war in Europe and guesses that many of his old friends, including Hannay, will have taken up arms again. Richard Hannay Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, DSO, Legion of Honour, is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist John Buchan and further made popular by the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film "The 39 Steps" (and other later film adaptations), very loosely based
Richard Hannay series "Hannay" (1988–1989). Orson Welles portrayed Hannay in a radio play of "The Thirty-Nine Steps" in 1938, as did Glenn Ford in 1948 on "Studio One", Herbert Marshall on "Suspense" in 1952 and David Robb in the BBC Radio 4 adaptations of "The Thirty-Nine Steps", "Greenmantle", "Mr Standfast" and "The Three Hostages". The 1973 BBC documentary "Omnibus: The British Hero" had Christopher Cazenove playing Hannay in a scene from "Mr. Standfast", as well as a number of other such heroic characters, including Beau Geste, Bulldog Drummond and James Bond. Barry Foster played Hannay in a 1977 television adaptation of "The