The Saint

The Saint (real name: Simon Templar) is the titular main protagonist of the novel series of the same name by and its 1997 film adaptation. He is an orphaned professional thief, amateur detective, freelance occasional police agent and master of disguise who uses multiple Catholic saints as aliases and acts like Robin Hood worldwide.
He was portrayed by in the , in the , in the 1970's TV series "", while he was portrayed by the long time James Bond actor the late in the of the same name.
== Overview ==
Simon Templar is a Robin Hood-like criminal known as The Saint — plausibly from his initials; but the exact reason for his nickname is not known (although we're told that he was given it at the age of nineteen). Templar has aliases, often using the initials S.T. such as "Sebastian Tombs" or "Sugarman Treacle". Blessed with boyish humour, he makes humorous and off-putting remarks and leaves a "calling card" at his "crimes", a stick figure of a man with a halo. This is used as the logo of the books, the movies, and the 1960s TV series.
He is described as "buccaneer in the suits of Savile Row, amused, cool, debonair, with hell-for-leather blue eyes and a saintly smile...".
== Publication Overview ==
The character first appeared in the 1928 novel (which, like many other books in the series, was later republished under different titles). Charteris depicted the character's adventures in short stories, novellas and full-length novels, most of which were first published in magazines. A total of 50 English-language books were published under Charteris' watch between 1928 and 1983, as well as many others published exclusively in French and written by others. After publishing The Saint in the Sun in 1963, Charteris took on an editorial role with the book series, sometimes being credited as author, his name becoming a "house pseudonym" (this began with 1964's Vendetta for the Saint which was credited to Charteris, but actually written by Harry Harrison). The books published between the late 1960s and 1983 included some original works, but primarily adapted episodes of the , its , the , and its , as well as the Saint comic strip. 
Since Charteris retired the series in 1983, only one widely published Saint novel has been published, an adaptation of the 1997 film by Burl Barer, along with a privately published novel by the same author. Although several unpublished manuscripts are known to exist (including one by Charteris himself dating from the 1940s), and other writers have occasionally indicated plans to publish new novels, as of 2021 no new literary publication featuring Simon Templar has occurred.
== In the Film and TV ==
To be added.
== Personality ==
He is an extremely powerful, brave, relentless, intense, calculating and very kind man whose liking to act as a Robin Hood.
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