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Leslie Charteris created Simon Templar alias
The Saint in Meet the Tiger in 1928. He was described as
"a man of 27, tall, dark, keen-faced, deeply tanned,
blue-eyed". He lived in a converted
pill-box (which cost him £25 with a quarter mile of surrounding
land) with a retainer called Orace. All we know about his history
is that he was called Saint because of his initials (but Enter
the Saint gave some details). His morning routine consisted
of skipping energetically for 15 minutes, shadow-boxing for 5,
sprinting to the cliff, climbing down 150 feet to the beach,
swimming a quarter mile at racing speed, paddling back to cover
the last 100 yards like a champion, sunbathing, then climbing
back up the cliff. A bit like myself, really.
If Simon Templar was 27 in June 1928, he must have been born in
the first half of 1901. Leslie Charteris (born 1907) later
complained that it was a mistake to invent a hero older than
himself.
Simon Templar has been pictured many different
ways by different artists. Here are some of them:
 Simon Templar with his Hirondel from The Thriller 1929 (see a larger copy here) |
 Simon Templar with Patricia Holm by Mike Roy 1948 |
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 Simon Templar with a beard by John Spranger 1957 |
 Simon Templar by Bruce Timm 1988 |
As book cover art:
 1943 Avon |
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 1949 Pan |
 1950 Pan |
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 1957 Pan |
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 1976 Carroll & Graf |
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 Paul Rhys (1963-) played the Saint for BBC Radio 4 in 1995. |
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In 1941 Life magazine asked Leslie Charteris to write a whodunnit to be used as a 'photographic essay'. Leslie agreed on condition that he could play Simon Templar in the strip. Here he is, complete with the monocle that he affected at the time. The story was titled The Saint Goes West and was later written up as Palm Springs to be included in The Saint Goes West book. |
Simon Templar has been played on the Silver Screen by
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 Hugh Sinclair 1943 |
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Simon Templar was portrayed on television by:
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