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George Langelaan (19 January 1908 – 9 February 1972) was a British writer and journalist born in Paris, France. He is best known for his 1957 short story "The Fly", which was the basis for the 1958 and 1986 sci-fi/horror films and a 2008 opera of the same name. ==Career== During World War II, Langelaan worked as a spy and special agent for the Allied powers as part of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). He was in F Section SOE with the rank of Lieutenant. His code name was "Langdon". According to his memoirs, ''The Masks of War'' (1959), he underwent plastic surgery to alter his appearance before being dropped into France. (The operation was deemed necessary so as to remove features that were too distinctive. He later explained that his ears were too large and that they had to be pinned back before he could be dropped into enemy territory.) He parachuted into occupied France on 7 September 1941 to make contact with the French resistance forces south of Châteauroux, arranged to meet Édouard Herriot, was captured on 6 October, imprisoned in the Mauzac camp, condemned to death by the Nazis, and escaped (16 July 1942) and returned to England to participate in the Normandy landings. He received the French Croix de guerre. Langelaan was a friend of the occultist Aleister Crowley, claiming he was a spy and "that by winning the confidence of the Germans in America, he had access to members of their inner circle."〔Richard Kaczynski, ''Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley'', page 623, footnote 34 (North Atlantic Books, 2010). ISBN 978-1-55643-899-8; citing George Langelaan, "L'agent secret, fauteur de paix", in ''Janus: L'Homme, son Histoire et son Avenir'', number 2, pages 49–53 (1964).〕 In the 1950s and 1960s he wrote his memoirs, novels, and short stories that were made into motion pictures and which were featured on television. He died in 1972 at the age of 64. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Langelaan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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